Virtual water: an effective mechanism for integrated water resources management

A Simulation Library for an Integrated Water Resources Management

A Stochastic Model for Water Resources Management

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

USAID Water Team Case Study in Integrated Water Resources Management

beginnings as a frontier oil town, the ment planning. Local governments are city's economy has diversified and now also seizing the opportunity to devise Coastal zone management; acts as a magnet for migrants from more responsive development proIndonesia; integrated water resources Sulawesi and Java. The city's population grams funded with an increased share management of around 450,000 is grow...

The global policy network behind integrated water resources management: is it an effective norm diffusor?

Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been recognized by many actors as the appropriate approach to respond to challenges in water resources management in a sustainable way. The main players in developing and diffusing the IWRM concept have included expert groups, international organizations, and multistakeholder platforms, which cooperated in various activities promoting the IWRM co...

Generic Modeling Framework for Integrated Water Resources Management

By definition, integrated water resources management (IWRM) deals with planning, design and operation of complex systems in order to control the quantity, quality, temporal and spatial distribution of water with the main objective of meeting human and ecological needs and providing protection from water disasters. Complexity is a result of water resources system structure and interaction betwee...