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Colin A. Booth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable surface Water Management
2017Co-Authors: S. M. Charlesworth, Colin A. BoothAbstract:Sustainable surface Water Management : , Sustainable surface Water Management : , کتابخانه دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات درمانی بوشهر
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Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SuDS - Sustainable surface Water Management: A handbook for SuDS
2016Co-Authors: S. M. Charlesworth, Colin A. BoothAbstract:This book emphasises the SuDS philosophy and elaborates the sustainable surface Water Management agenda with a wealth of insights that are brought together through the experts who have contributed. By integrating physical and environmental sciences, and combining social, economic and political considerations, the book provides a unique resource of interest to a wide range of policy specialists, scientists, engineers and subject enthusiasts. The book comprises seven sections, which are collated into twenty–nine chapters. Section 1 provides a primer to the book and offers an initial background into surface Water Management issues and challenges (Chapter 1). Section 2 places sustainable surface Water Management in context, through its historical context, contemporary surface Water strategy, policy and legislation, operations and maintenance (Chapters 2–4). Section 3 utilises the facets of the functions of sustainable drainage systems, to explore quantity and quality issues, together with biodegradation and geosynthetics, biodiversity and amenity, (Chapters 5–11). Section 4 attempts to untangle the complex relationship of the multiple benefits of surface Water Management, through natural floodWater Management, energy generation and reduction, carbon sequestration and storage, plus the use of rainWater harvesting as a Water saving device and its use in ecosystem services (Chapters 12–16). Section 5 announces the implementation of integrating sustainable surface Water Management into the built environment, through an interesting scrutiny of the cost benefits that can be derived, the possibility of sustainable drainage retrofit and conversion opportunities, and their use in the landscapes of motorway service areas, alongside human attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable drainage systems (Chapters 17–21). Section 6 contextualises global surface Water Management, through the use of examples from Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA, amongst others (Chapters 22–28). Section 7 congregates various aspects detailed in the earlier chapters by offering a summary of the book and propositioning many insights of the teachings that can be learnt for the future of sustainable surface Water Management (Chapter 29).
Claudia Pahl-wostl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing Framing of Uncertainties in Water Management Practice
Water Resources Management, 2009Co-Authors: Nicola Isendahl, Art Dewulf, Greet François, Marcela Brugnach, Sabine Möllenkamp, Claudia Pahl-wostlAbstract:Dealing with uncertainties in Water Management is an important issue and is one which will only increase in light of global changes, particularly climate change. So far, uncertainties in Water Management have mostly been assessed from a scientific point of view, and in quantitative terms. In this paper, we focus on the perspectives from Water Management practice, adopting a qualitative approach. We consider it important to know how uncertainties are framed in Water Management practice in order to develop practice relevant strategies for dealing with uncertainties. Framing refers to how people make sense of the world. With the aim of identifying what are important parameters for the framing of uncertainties in Water Management practice, in this paper we analyze uncertainty situations described by decision-makers in Water Management. The analysis builds on a series of “Uncertainty Dialogues” carried out within the NeWater project with Water managers in the Rhine, Elbe and Guadiana basins in 2006. During these dialogues, representatives of these river basins were asked what uncertainties they encountered in their professional work life and how they confronted them. Analysing these dialogues we identified several important parameters of how uncertainties get framed. Our assumption is that making framing of uncertainty explicit for Water managers will allow for better dealing with the respective uncertainty situations.
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Adaptive and Integrated Water Management - Adaptive and integrated Water Management
2008Co-Authors: Claudia Pahl-wostl, Pavel Kabat, Jörn MöltgenAbstract:Sustainable Water Management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. Developing and implementing innovative Management approaches and how to cope with the increasing complexity and uncertainties was the theme of the first International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The conference volume includes selected contributions on conceptual and methodological innovations and empirical insights from case studies on important themes such as multi-level governance, change Management, vulnerability assessment, environmental flows, uncertainty analysis and the impacts of climate change. The book addresses a wide interdisciplinary audience of scientists and professionals from academia, industry, and those involved in policy making.
S. M. Charlesworth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable surface Water Management
2017Co-Authors: S. M. Charlesworth, Colin A. BoothAbstract:Sustainable surface Water Management : , Sustainable surface Water Management : , کتابخانه دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات درمانی بوشهر
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Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SuDS - Sustainable surface Water Management: A handbook for SuDS
2016Co-Authors: S. M. Charlesworth, Colin A. BoothAbstract:This book emphasises the SuDS philosophy and elaborates the sustainable surface Water Management agenda with a wealth of insights that are brought together through the experts who have contributed. By integrating physical and environmental sciences, and combining social, economic and political considerations, the book provides a unique resource of interest to a wide range of policy specialists, scientists, engineers and subject enthusiasts. The book comprises seven sections, which are collated into twenty–nine chapters. Section 1 provides a primer to the book and offers an initial background into surface Water Management issues and challenges (Chapter 1). Section 2 places sustainable surface Water Management in context, through its historical context, contemporary surface Water strategy, policy and legislation, operations and maintenance (Chapters 2–4). Section 3 utilises the facets of the functions of sustainable drainage systems, to explore quantity and quality issues, together with biodegradation and geosynthetics, biodiversity and amenity, (Chapters 5–11). Section 4 attempts to untangle the complex relationship of the multiple benefits of surface Water Management, through natural floodWater Management, energy generation and reduction, carbon sequestration and storage, plus the use of rainWater harvesting as a Water saving device and its use in ecosystem services (Chapters 12–16). Section 5 announces the implementation of integrating sustainable surface Water Management into the built environment, through an interesting scrutiny of the cost benefits that can be derived, the possibility of sustainable drainage retrofit and conversion opportunities, and their use in the landscapes of motorway service areas, alongside human attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable drainage systems (Chapters 17–21). Section 6 contextualises global surface Water Management, through the use of examples from Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA, amongst others (Chapters 22–28). Section 7 congregates various aspects detailed in the earlier chapters by offering a summary of the book and propositioning many insights of the teachings that can be learnt for the future of sustainable surface Water Management (Chapter 29).
Peter Troch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Risk assessment and Water Management
Environmental Modelling & Software, 2005Co-Authors: Jan Jaap Bouma, Delphine François, Peter TrochAbstract:In order to implement Water Management in a sustainable way, the related decision-making processes have to take the ecological and socio-economic consequences into account. In The Netherlands, policy makers struggle with the question of how they can deal with flood risks. This paper presents some results of a research project sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Water Management in order to develop a risk assessment approach that assists decision-makers in dealing with flood risks. It shows that dealing with risk in decision-making related to Water Management manifests itself in different ways. One aspect is the incorporation of risk in the process of valuation of socio-economic effects. Another aspect is the incorporation of the valued socio-economic effects into the decision-making process. The paper shows that different attitudes towards risk determine to a large extent how the valued effects are assessed. This element has been widely discussed in the literature. The results are innovative in that they also show that risk attitudes and the understanding of the risk concept interfere with the outcome of the decision-making process in the field of Water Management. The paper provides an approach to how the concept of risk can be operationalized in different ways by decision-makers in dealing with flood risks. The approach is applied in two case studies. The results show that different institutional contexts impose different ways of dealing with risks which may significantly change over time (discount rates, risk attitudes, relevance of ecological effects, etc.).
Yun Chen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Evaluating Water Management Practice for Sustainable Mining
Water, 2014Co-Authors: Xiangfeng Zhang, Lei Gao, Damian Barrett, Yun ChenAbstract:To move towards sustainable development, the mining industry needs to identify better mine Water Management practices for reducing raw Water use, increasing Water use efficiency, and eliminating environmental impacts in a precondition of securing mining production. However, the selection of optimal mine Water Management practices is technically challenging due to the lack of scientific tools to comprehensively evaluate Management options against a set of conflicting criteria. This work has provided a solution to aid the identification of more sustainable mine Water Management practices. The solution includes a conceptual framework for forming a decision hierarchy; an evaluation method for assessing mine Water Management practices; and a sensitivity analysis in view of different preferences of stakeholders or managers. The solution is applied to a case study of the evaluation of sustainable Water Management practices in 16 mines located in the Bowen Basin in Queensland, Australia. The evaluation results illustrate the usefulness of the proposed solution. A sensitivity analysis is performed according to preference weights of stakeholders or managers. Some measures are provided for assessing sensitivity of strategy ranking outcomes if the weight of an indicator changes. Finally, some advice is given to improve the mine Water Management in some mines.
