Reducing the Vulnerability of Societies
to Water Related Risks at the Basin Scale

Edited by Andreas Schumann & Markus Pahlow

IAHS Publ. 317 (2007) ISBN 978-1-901502-29-9, 450 + xiv pp. Price £78.00

The International Commission on Water Resources Systems (ICWRS) of IAHS has, for many years, embraced Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as the main topic for its research agenda. The need for integrated approaches to deal with complex water resources management issues in both the developed and developing world is well recognised, yet, in many places, IWRM is still only a concept and not established practice. This volume, comprised of peer-reviewed papers selected from the Third International Symposium on IWRM (September 2006, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany), accounts for the heterogeneity of world water problems by addressing the following important questions: What has to be integrated? How can it be accomplished? What are the options to balance the different views? This symposium strived to not only identify problems, but to provide practical solutions. The subject of how to cope with water-related vulnerability of societies formed the overarching theme. Together, the papers provide an excellent overview of current IWRM research worldwide.

Contents


     
  1. River Basin Interdependencies
     
     
  2. Hydro-Ecological Aspects in Water Management
     
     
  3. Chemical Loads of Water by Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Pesticides
     
     
  4. Erosion, Sedimentation and Reservoirs
     
     
  5. Institutions in River Basin Management
     
     
  6. Regional Water Management
     
     
  7. Impact Assessment
     
     
  8. Decision Support Tools
     
     
  9. Global and Climatic Changes
     
     
  10. Scales of Vulnerability Against Flooding
     
     
  11. Flood Risk Management at Different Scales
     
     
  12. Tools to Estimate and Reduce Flood Risk
     
     
  13. Hydraulic Structures Mitigating Flood Risk
     
     

    Key word index, 447