Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management: An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management
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Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management: An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management
Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management: An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management: An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

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Geoffrey D. Gooch (Contributor) Per Stalnacke (Contributor)  

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One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia. These include the Tungabhadra (India), Sesan (Vietnam/Cambodia), Tagus (Spain/Portugal) and Glomma (Norway), which particularly highlight issues associated with pollution, severely altered river flows and transboundary conflicts. Following two chapters which lay the framework for the book the authors describe how SPSI was managed in the case study basins and how stakeholder participation and scenarios were used to integrate different perspectives, and to facilitate the communication of different forms of knowledge. Four important aspects of water management and SPSI are then discussed; these are water pollution, land and water interaction, environmental flow and transboundary water regimes. Short descriptions of the case study rivers are provided together with analyses of how SPSI was managed in water management in these basins and policy recommendations for the basins. The book concludes by providing a series of recommendations for improving the science-policy-stakeholder interface in water management. It represents a major step forward in our understanding of how to implement integrated water resources management.
Geoffrey D. Gooch is Professor of Political Science at Linkoeping University, Sweden, and at the UNESCO Centre for Water law, Policy and Science at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Per Stalnacke is a Senior Researcher and Head of Section 'Water quality and Hydrology' at Bioforsk (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research).
  • Contributor: Geoffrey D. Gooch
  • Imprint: Earthscan Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781844079193
  • Number of Pages: 184
  • Packaged Weight: 430
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2010-04-28
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Geoffrey D. Gooch is Professor of Political Science at Linkoeping University, Sweden, and at the UNESCO Centre for Water law, Policy and Science at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Per Stalnacke is a Senior Researcher and Head of Section 'Water quality and Hydrology' at Bioforsk (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research).

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