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An Approach to Support Learning from International Experience with Water Policy

Hermans, Leon - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 1, pp. 373-393

International experiences with water policy and governance arrangements are shared through various international meetings and reports. The underlying assumption is that these experiences provide useful information to policy makers who are looking for ways to improve water resources management in...

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Managing Cumulative Impacts: Groundwater Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Nevill, Charles - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 13, pp. 2605-2631

The cumulative impacts of incremental development present governments all over the world with major difficulties. Well-intended strategic approaches often fail, in whole or in part. In Australia, a joint Federal/State agreement in 1992 initiated reforms of State environmental legislation and...

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Investment in Irrigation Systems under Precipitation Uncertainty

Heumesser, Christine; Fuss, Sabine; Szolgayová, Jana; … - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 11, pp. 3113-3137

-saving irrigation technologies. We apply a stochastic dynamic programming model (SDPM) to analyze a farmer’s optimal investment strategy … to adopt a water-efficient drip irrigation system or a sprinkler irrigation system under uncertainty about future … production conditions, i.e. about future precipitation patterns. We assess the optimal timing to invest into either irrigation …

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Relaxing the Principle of Prior Appropriation: Stored Water and Sharing the Shortage in Alberta, Canada

Rood, Stewart; Vandersteen, Jenny - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 8, pp. 1605-1620

consequently irrigation districts and others agreed to share the shortage, with all receiving 60% allotments. Following success …

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Agent-Based Residential Water Use Behavior Simulation and Policy Implications: A Case-Study in Beijing City

Chu, Junying; Wang, Can; Chen, Jining; Wang, Hao - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 15, pp. 3267-3295

Residential water use constitutes a major part of urban water demand, and has be gaining importance in the urban water supply. Considering the complexity of residential water use system, an agent-based social simulation, i.e. the Residential Water Use Model (RWUM), is developed in this paper to...

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Experiences in Regional Cross Border Co-operation in River Management. Comparing Three Cases at the Dutch–German Border

Wiering, Mark; Verwijmeren, Joris; Lulofs, Kris; Feld, … - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 11, pp. 2647-2672

Cross border co-operation is increasingly viewed as an obvious and logical consequence of an integrated perspective on river management. Consequently, we would expect an increase of cross border co-operation and collaboration in EU member states, through joint planning, co-management or...

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Hydro-economic Modeling in River Basin Management: Implications and Applications for the European Water Framework Directive

Heinz, I.; Pulido-Velazquez, M.; Lund, J.; Andreu, J. - In: Water Resources Management 21 (2007) 7, pp. 1103-1125

Economic ideas and processes are becoming increasingly integrated with more traditional engineering and hydrologic models of water management problems. Combining economic management concepts and performance indicators with an engineering-level of understanding of a hydrologic system can provide...

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Simplified Monthly Hydrology and Irrigation Water Use Model to Explore Sustainable Water Management Options in the Murray-Darling Basin

Kirby, J.; Mainuddin, Md.; Ahmad, M.; Gao, L. - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 11, pp. 4083-4097

runoff, river flow and irrigation demand are modelled as lumped processes. This is the first single model of the whole of the … flows below the main irrigation areas. However, a middle-of-the-range climate change projection may result in a 13 …

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Optimal Location of Created and Restored Wetlands in Mediterranean Agricultural Catchments

Moreno-Mateos, David; Mander, Ülo; Pedrocchi, César - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 11, pp. 2485-2499

Simple tools and accessible information are needed by environmental planners to select sites for the restoration or creation of wetlands. A flexible suitability model for allocating wetlands is demonstrated in small (20–2,000 ha) agricultural catchments in the semiarid Ebro basin (NE Spain)....

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Monitoring and Assessment of Surface Water Abstractions for Pasture Irrigation from Landsat Imagery: Bega–Bemboka River, NSW, Australia

Reinfelds, Ivars - In: Water Resources Management 25 (2011) 9, pp. 2319-2334

Irrigation of pasture forms the greatest single use of irrigation water in Australia yet there has been little … regression relationships between metered monthly irrigation abstraction volumes, evaporation and rainfall. Over the metering … catchment-scale hydrological effects of irrigation abstractions that in turn can help guide regional-scale assessments of the …

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