Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change A North-S
How can the Earth’s finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis? The need to find answers to this question has exercised the minds of many scientists, practitioners
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Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change A North-South Analysis
Edited by ERIC CRASWELL Global Water System Project, Bonn, Germany MIKE BONNELL UNESCO Division of Water Sciences, Paris, France DEBORAH BOSSIO International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka SIEGFRIED DEMUTH Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany and University of Freiburg, Germany NICK VAN DE GIESEN Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Reprinted from Water Resources Management, Volume 21(1), 2007
A C.I.P. catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-1-4020-5590-4 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-5591-1 (e-book)
Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com
Cover illustration. Upper part: Power plant (photograph from morgueFile.com, taken by V. Nyberg); Lower part: Tamale, Ghana (photograph taken by Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany)
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Table of Contents Preface
1–2
Shift in Thinking to Address the 21st Century Hunger Gap – Moving Focus from Blue to Green Water Management Malin Falkenmark
3–18
A Grid-Based Assessment of Global Water Scarcity Including Virtual Water Trading Md. Sirajul Islam, Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae, Naota Hanasaki, Yasushi Agata and Kei Yoshimura
19–33
Water Footprints of Nations: Water use by People as a Function of Their Consumption Pattern A. Y. Hoekstra and A. K. Chapagain
35–48
Transitions Towards Adaptive Management of Water Facing Climate and Global Change Claudia Pahl-Wostl
49–62
Stakeholder-Driven, Enquiry-Driven, or Stakeholder-Relevant, EnquiryDriven Science? W. James Shuttleworth
63–77
Learning Alliances for the Broad Implementation of an Integrated Approach to Multiple Sources, Multiple uses and Multiple Users of Water Frits W. T. Penning de Vries
79–95
Possibilities and Problems with the use of Models as a Communication Tool in Water Resource Management Johanna Alkan Olsson and Lotta Andersson
97–110
Integration of the Biophysical and Social Sciences Using an Indicator Approach: Addressing Water Problems at Different Scales Caroline Sullivan and Jeremy Meigh 111–128 Capturing the Complexity of Water uses and Water Users Within a Multi-Agent Framework Thomas Berger, Regina Birner, Jos´e D´ıaz, Nancy McCarthy and Heidi Wittmer 129–148 Upscaling Field Scale Hydrology and Water Quality Modelling to Catchment Scale Alaa El-Sadek 149–169 Linking Databases of Different Sources and Scales for Groundwater Research in the Urema River Basin/Central Mozambique Franziska Steinbruch and Luis Macario
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