Spatial Water Management: Supporting Participatory Planning and Decision Making

Goosen, Hasse

ISBN 10: 9085940060 / ISBN 13: 9789085940067

Published by Techne Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spatial Water Management: Supporting Participatory Planning and Decision Making
• Publisher: Techne Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9085940060
• ISBN 13: 9789085940067
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

Spatial Water Management addresses the constraints in water policy implementation and proposes a platform approach that strikes a balance between top-down regulation and bottom-up solutions. The book contributes to the understanding of how decision support tools can be used in the context of such a platform approach and presents a number of spatial evaluation tools that can be used to weigh the various stakes, leading to an interactive, flexible and user-friendly mediation through which commitment and active participation of all involved parties can be reached.

About the Author

Hasse Goosen studied environmental sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam (MSc, 1995). For the past ten years, he has done research on water management, decision support, and the evaluation of nature at the IVM - the Institute for Environmental Studies. In addition he has served as the Secretary of the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment (EC DG-XII). Goosen received his PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam in 2006 based on Spatial Water Management, which served as his dissertation. Goosen is a member of the board of the Dutch Society for Landscape Ecology Research and is the Coordinator for Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of the Province of South Holland.