Hydrocomplexity: New Tools for Solving Wicked Water Problems

Proceedings of the Xth Kovacs Colloquium held in Paris, 2-3 July 2010

Edited by Shahbaz Khan, Hubert Savenije, Siegfried Demuth and Pierre Hubert

IAHS Publ. 338 (2010) ISBN 978-1-907161-11-7, 272 + x pp. Price £55.00

Human activities have become major drivers of change in the Earth's biosphere, resulting in deterioration of water quality, over¬exploitation of freshwater resources, adverse effects of hydrological hazards and landscape degradation, which make water problems complex and wicked. The same activities also affect the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide goods and services on which human well-being depends. There is a need for community-based transdisciplinary management tools to provide a better understanding of water as both an abiotic resource and as a service delivered by ecosystems.

This book, launched at the 10th International Hydrology Progamme (IHP)/IAHS Kovacs Colloquium, held at UNESCO, Paris, contains the keynote papers by the invited speakers and extended abstracts of the posters, focusing on the issues of complexity of wicked water problems and the type of tools that can be used to solve them

Contents


     
  1. Monitoring and Evaluating the Water Cycle
     
     
  2. Linking Climate Change with Water Cycle Management
     
     
  3. Parsimonious vs Complicated Approaches
     
     
  4. Whole-of-System and Adaptative Approaches
     
     
  5. Need for Transdisciplinary Issues Approaches to Deal with Water-related Ecosystems
     
     
  6. Integrated Approaches
     
     
  7. Role of Knowledge Platforms for Community Engagement
     
     
  8. From Artificial to Embodied Intelligence
     
     
  9. Water Allocation Dilemma
     
     
  10. Water Quality – a Critical Issue
     
     
  11. Managing Hydrohazards
     
     

    Author index, 271