Search Results - subject:"IWRM"

Indus Basin Floods: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Management

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

More than 138 million people in the Indus River Basin in Pakistan depend on irrigated agriculture. But rising population pressures, climate change, and the continuous degradation of ecosystem services have resulted in increased flood risks, worsened by inadequate flood planning and management....

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The Legal Framework of Vietnam’s Water Sector: Update 2013

Nguyen, Thi Phuong Loan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In order to deal with problems related to both water quality and quantity as well as to strengthen the sustainable and integrative management of the nation’s water resources, the Vietnamese Government has adopted a wide spectrum of laws and regulations. In recent years, more than 300 water...

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Institutionalizing IWRM in developing and transition countries: The case of Mongolia

Horlemann, Lena; Dombrowsky, Ines - 2010

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) forms the widely accepted ecosystem approach to manage water and its … transition countries which are often short of essential resources and face complex political dynamics. IWRM often requires a … IWRM exists on paper, it is less clear how it will be made politically and institutionally applicable. A document review …

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Rethinking water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan: Concepts and recommendations

Oberkircher, Lisa; Tischbein, Bernhard; Hornidge, … - 2010

, recommendations are given. The paper concludes that elements of IWRM such as transparency, accountability, participation, and …

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A participatory approach to assess the effectiveness of responses to cope with flood risk

Ceccato, Lucia; Giannini, Valentina; Giupponi, Carlo - 2010

This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...

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Institutionalizing IWRM in developing and transition countries : the case of Mongolia

Horlemann, Lena; Dombrowsky, Ines - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470286

Rethinking water management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan : concepts and recommendations

Oberkircher, Lisa; Tischbein, Bernhard; Hornidge, … - 2010

, recommendations are given. The paper concludes that elements of IWRM such as transparency, accountability, participation, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207049

Improving water use efficiency under worsening scarcity: Evidence from the Middle Olifants sub-basin in South Africa

Walter, Teresa; Kloos, Julia; Tsegai, Daniel W. - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2010

With the political changes in South Africa in the early 1990s, the South African government introduced a reform process in the entire water sector with the goal of a more enhanced and equitable water management system. This paper analyzes existing water allocation situations and applies a...

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A Participatory Approach to Assess the Effectiveness of Responses to Cope With Flood Risk

Ceccato, Lucia; Giannini, Valentina; Giupponi, Carlo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

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Institutionalizing IWRM in developing and transition countries: The case of Mongolia

Horlemann, Lena; Dombrowsky, Ines - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2010

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