Integrated Water Resources Management under different hydrological, climatic and socio-economic conditions

Kalbus, E.; Kalbacher, Thomas; Kolditz, Olaf; Krüger, Elisabeth; Seegert, Jörg; Röstel, Gunda; Teutsch, Georg; Borchardt, Dietrich; Krebs, Peter

doi:10.1007/s12665-011-1330-3

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“…The decision to present this review paper in addition to the existing literature is motivated by the general consensus that there is a great demand for integrated solutions relating to water resources (see, e.g. Kalbus et al 2012;Savenije and Van der Zaag 2008) and a growing demand for scientifically sound approaches to managing and using water resources at the regional scale. It is only at the regional scale that environmental, economic and social problems linked to water resources can be analysed and solved in an integrated way (see Barthel 2014a; Barthel 2014b for a detailed discussion and further references).…”

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Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction at the Regional-scale – A Review with Focus on Regional Integrated Models

Barthel

Banzhaf

2015

Water Resour Manage

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Scientists and practitioners agree that integrated water resource management is necessary, with an increasing need for research at the regional scale (10 3 to 10 5 km 2 ). At this scale interactions between environmental and human systems are fully developed and global change is linked to local actions. The groundwater-surface water interaction (GW-SW) is of particular interest. Herein we review the scientific journal literature and examine GW-SW at the regional scale. We briefly review all existing literature on GW-SW, then summarise its characteristics at different scales and identify specific challenges of the regional scale. We explore whether GW-SW should be treated differently at regional and local scales. Regional GW-SW is rarely examined in experimental field studies, which almost exclusively cover small areas. However, GW-SW is often integral to large scale coupled models. Thus, we collate information about existing models and their regional applications. Fully coupled, physics-based models have great potential to meet the technical challenges. However, limited data availability hampers the application of complex models at the regional scale and loosely coupled schemes are more widely applied. Many integrated modelling concepts have been published, but none have been applied in a wide range of settings. Thus, it is impossible to compare the performance of different approaches. Comparative analyses of existing regional scale integrated models in the context of different data availability and geographic conditions are needed. Unfortunately, peer-reviewed journal literature no longer provides a representative picture of the subject as models are becoming Btoo big to be published^or too pragmatic.

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Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction at the Regional-scale – A Review with Focus on Regional Integrated Models

Barthel

Banzhaf

2015

Water Resour Manage

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“…As an example, the International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS) aims to contribute to an IWRM in hydrologically sensitive regions by developing specific system solutions as a response to water-related problems worldwide [93]. Overarching objectives are (1) to generate interdisciplinary system understanding for sustainable management of water resources in response to natural and social changes, (2) to develop and implement site-specific methods, models and technologies for water management, (3) to develop and apply site-specific management concepts and implementation strategies involving local governance structures and participatory processes, and (4) to contribute to the transfer of existing and newly acquired knowledge to the modelled regions (capacity development).…”

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Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change

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Alvarez

Barreteau

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Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top.

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Abstract. This position paper proposes a vision for the research activity about sustainability in global environmental change (GEC) taking place in the FuturICT flagship project. This activity will be organised in an "Exploratory", gathering a core network of European scientists from ICT, social simulation, complex systems, economics, demographics, Earth system science. These research teams will collaborate in building a self-organising network of data sources and models about GEC and in using new facilities fostering stakeholder participation. We develop examples of concrete directions for this research: world wide virtual population with demographic and some economic descriptors, ecosystem services production and distribution, governance systems at various scales.

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“…Recent Thematic Issues in EES were dealing with Integrated Water Resources Management under different hydrological, climatic and socio-economic conditions (Kalbus et al 2012;Grathwohl et al 2013;Seegert et al 2014) including topics like progress in monitoring and modeling concepts (Beinhorn et al 2005;Beyer et al 2006;Kalbacher et al 2012;Rink et al 2012). The protection of aquatic ecosystems and the security of drinking water provision are becoming an increasing economic challenge in water management.…”

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Thematic Issue: Water of the Taihu Lake

Sun

et al. 2015

Environ Earth Sci

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Integrated Water Resources Management under different hydrological, climatic and socio-economic conditions

Cited by 73 publications

References 23 publications

Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction at the Regional-scale – A Review with Focus on Regional Integrated Models

Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction at the Regional-scale – A Review with Focus on Regional Integrated Models

Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change

Thematic Issue: Water of the Taihu Lake

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