The policy-science interface in sustainable water management: creating scenarios together with stakeholders

TY - CHAP

T1 - The policy-science interface in sustainable water management: creating scenarios together with stakeholders

A1 - Allan,Andrew

A1 - Rieu-Clarke,Alistair

A1 - Gooch,Geoffrey

A1 - Baggett,Susan

AU - Allan,Andrew

AU - Rieu-Clarke,Alistair

AU - Gooch,Geoffrey

AU - Baggett,Susan

PB - Earthscan

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia. These include the Tungabhadra (India), Sesan (Vietnam/Cambodia), Tagus (Spain/Portugal) and Glomma (Norway), which particularly highlight issues associated with pollution, severely altered river flows and transboundary conflicts. Following two chapters which lay the framework for the book the authors describe how SPSI was managed in the case study basins and how stakeholder participation and scenarios were used to integrate different perspectives, and to facilitate the communication of different forms of knowledge. Four important aspects of water management and SPSI are then discussed; these are water pollution, land and water interaction, environmental flow and transboundary water regimes. Short descriptions of the case study rivers are provided together with analyses of how SPSI was managed in water management in these basins and policy recommendations for the basins. The book concludes by providing a series of recommendations for improving the science-policy-stakeholder interface in water management. It represents a major step forward in our understanding of how to implement integrated water resources management.

AB - One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia. These include the Tungabhadra (India), Sesan (Vietnam/Cambodia), Tagus (Spain/Portugal) and Glomma (Norway), which particularly highlight issues associated with pollution, severely altered river flows and transboundary conflicts. Following two chapters which lay the framework for the book the authors describe how SPSI was managed in the case study basins and how stakeholder participation and scenarios were used to integrate different perspectives, and to facilitate the communication of different forms of knowledge. Four important aspects of water management and SPSI are then discussed; these are water pollution, land and water interaction, environmental flow and transboundary water regimes. Short descriptions of the case study rivers are provided together with analyses of how SPSI was managed in water management in these basins and policy recommendations for the basins. The book concludes by providing a series of recommendations for improving the science-policy-stakeholder interface in water management. It represents a major step forward in our understanding of how to implement integrated water resources management.

KW - Watershed management

UR - http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=101782

UR - http://copac.ac.uk/crn/72015427440/html

M1 - Chapter

SN - 9781844079193

SN - 1844079198

BT - Science, policy and stakeholders in water management: an integrated approach to river basin management

T2 - Science, policy and stakeholders in water management: an integrated approach to river basin management

A2 - Stalnacke,Per

ED - Stalnacke,Per

ER -