The challenge of improving water quality (WQ) is a growing global concern [1]. Poor WQ is mainly attributed to poor water management and outdated agricultural activities. We propose that collaborative sensor networks spread across an entire catchment can allow cooperation among individual activities for integrated WQ monitoring and management. We show that sharing information on critical parame...

Purpose: Exploring the indicators most crucial for actors in health and social care services and identifying those which lead up to the initiation and implementation of integrated care. By analysing the reasons why integrated care is chosen and initiated, the underlying mechanisms and decision-making processes of integrated care are highlighted. Theory: Even though integrated care projects and ...

The use of software agent systems and technologies to simulate water resources management scenarios and improve the engagement of stakeholders in policy making is gaining paramount importance. Such importance originates from two main concerns or change agents. Firstly, the context of water management is becoming highly complicated due to the intensity of connections with other systems, the dive...

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) poses an immense challenge to integrated water management in Europe. Aiming at a “good ecological status” of all water resources in 2015, integrated river basin management plans need to be in place by 2009, and need to be broadly supported by stakeholders. Cost effective programmes of measures must be put in place to meet the objective of “good ecological sta...

The widespread and relentless discharge of untreated wastewater into the Upper Litani Basin (ULB) river system in Lebanon has reached staggering levels rendering its water unfit for most uses especially during the drier times of the year. Despite the call by governmental and non-governmental agencies to develop several wastewater treatment plants and sewage networks in an effort to control this...