ID |
Research Question |
interest |
links to current knowledge |
9.1 |
Integration. trying to incorporate the many pressures on the water resources in a comprehensive and holistic management system
- How to integrate ecological and socio-economic objectives at a basin scale.
- IWRM as comprehensive resources management tool. Not only for water but also energy and economy.
- Integration of hydrology, geomorphology, water, economics, social.
- Inter-disciplinary approaches not only looking at data, providing technical solutions modelling future measures, but combining social, industrial, ecologic & improving confidence in decision-making and the assessment of risk.
- Integration of terrestrial, transitional and coastal waters in the management process
- What is the right territorial scale for management?
- The relationship between the urban and rural (communities, water demands etc)
- How can priorities be defined in river basin management, flood management?
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9.2 |
Operational Management
- Improve abilities in adaptive management and learning
- Crisis management - preventative communication vs crisis communication. How do we implement a system to communicate with stakeholders in a sustainable manner and not only in times of crisis?
- Improve operational management of droughts
- Transfer knowledge of operational management of droughts
- Re-connect the responsibility for water quality with the suppliers
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9.3 |
Decision Support tools
- allow assessment of risk and uncertainties,
- for transfer of knowledge
- for integrating different aspects of water management for assessment and comparison of options including cost-effectiveness
- for participation, negotiation and consensus building
- for assessing IWRM options against multiple bottom lines
- increase understanding of system functioning
- How can the decision making for HMWB be supported, eg. designation process
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9.4 |
Evidence based policy making
- Development of methods to facilitate a compromise between stakeholders and researchers?
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9.5 |
Demand Management
- Improve our ability to value competing uses to compare these and assess the most important use or find ways of achieving a balanced and fair distribution of resource use.
- The management of water through demand, which tools and measures?
- How does demand management allow water resources to be a strong multi-sectoral component of development?
- Re-use - recycling of water and waste water
- Measures to assess the efficiency of water use.
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Valencia workshop proposal |
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9.6 |
Water scarcity and managing erratic flows
- Ephemeral streams e.g. How can seasonal changes in erratic flow be managed (e.g. storage capacity, methods to recharge aquifers)
- critical drought situations
- How to locate the ideal place for storing water in aquifers as a drought management measure (links to saltwater intrusion question)
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valencia workshop proposal,
sibiu workshop proposal |
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9.7 |
Organisational and administration issues
- How should the structures and organisations be organised?
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9.8 |
Transboundary Water Management
- How to improve the management of the transboundary issues associated with residual flow and hydro-peaking with hydro-power dams? (see also 3.7)
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Sibiu workshop proposal |
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