Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management - Practice

Rodolfo (Politecnico di Milano Soncini-Sessa

ISBN 10: 0444530126 / ISBN 13: 9780444530127

Published by Elsevier Science & Technology Jul 2007, 2007

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Neuware - Presents a participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources. The book provides practicing professionals, decision-makers and scientists with an example of application of the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) paradigm. It describes the complete development of a real world application of IWRM.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management - Practice
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Jul 2007
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444530126
• ISBN 13: 9780444530127
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 247W x 166H x 25D millimeters 247 millimeters width by 166 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 958 grams

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Synopsis

A participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources is presented and illustrated through its application to a real-world case study: the planning of a trans-boundary, multi-purpose, regulated lake. Methods and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Optimal Control, Decision and Negotiation Theory are presented and framed in a comprehensive and coherent procedure for the efficient development of the decision-making process. Relevant theoretical and mathematical aspects are briefly presented for the non-expert reader, as well as all those practical details that are often omitted in texts, but that constitute the very essence of a project and make the difference between a successful project and a failure. The book provides practicing professionals, decision-makers and scientists with a complete, immediate example of application of the Integrated Water Resource Management paradigm.

• Complete development of a real world application of IWRM
• Integration of technical modelling and control aspects with participatory and decision-making issues

About the Author

Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa received his PhD on System Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1972; he was with the Water Group of the International Institute for System Analysis (IIASA) several times since 1975 and thought Water Management in some Italian Universities before being full professor of Natural Resources Management at the Politecnico di Milano. He is chair of the IFAC TC on Modelling & Control of Environmental Systems, and in the Editorial Boards of Water International and Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software. His main research interests are in the design of DSS for participatory decision making in the area of water resources.