Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A North-South Analysis (Hardcover)

Preface P.L.G. Vlek, E.T. Craswell Shift in thinking to address the 21st century hunger gap - moving focus from blue to green water management Malin Falkenmark A grid based assessment of global water scarcity including virtual water trading Md. Sirajul Islam, Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae, Naota Hanasaki, Yasushi Agata, Kei Yoshimura Water footprints of nations: water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern A.Y. Hoekstra, A.K. Chapagain Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change Claudia Pahl-Wostl Stakeholder-driven, enquiry-driven, or stakeholder-relevant, enquiry-driven sciences? W. James Shuttleworth Learning alliances for the broad implementation of an integrated approach to multiple sources, multiple uses and multiple users of water Frits W.T. Penning de Vries Possibilities and problems with the use of models as a communication tool in water resource management Johanna Alkan Olsson, Lotta Andersson Integration of the biophysical and social sciences using an indicator approach: Addressing water problems at different scales Caroline Sullivan, Jeremy Meigh Capturing the complexity of water uses and water users within a multi-agent framework Thomas Berger, Regina Birner, Jose Diaz, Nancy McCarthy, Heidi Wittmer Upscaling field scale hydrology and water quality modelling to catchment scale Alaa El-Sadek Linking databases of different sources and scales for groundwater research in the Urema River Basin/Central Mozambique Franziska Steinbruch, Luis Macario Integrated water and food analysis at the global and basin level. An application ofWatersim Charlotte de Fraiture, Claudia Ringler, Siwa Msangi The Adaptive Integrated Data Information System (AIDIS) for global water research Wolfgang-Albert Flugel Policy implications of a pan-tropic assessment of the simultaneous hydrological and biodiversity impacts of deforestationEllen M. Douglas, Stanley Wood, Kate Sebastian, Charles J. Vorosmarty, Kenneth M. Chomitz and Thomas P. Tomich Towards better water security in north China Jun Xia, Lu Zhang, Changming Liu, Jingjie Yu Towards transition management of European water resources Rutger van der Brugge, Jan Rotmans Some foci of integrated water resources management in the 'South' which are oft- forgotten by the 'North': A perspective from Southern Africa Roland E. Schulze The GLOWA Volta Project: A framework for water resources decision-making and scientific capacity building in a transnational West African basin Charles Rodgers, Nick van de Giesen, Wolfram Laube, Paul L.G. Vlek, Eva Youkhana Integrating a climate change assessment tool into stakeholder-driven water management decision-making processes in California David R. Purkey, Annette Huber-Lee, David N. Yates, Michael Hanemann Involving stakeholders in integrated river basin planning in England and Wales Paula Orr, John Colvin, David King Integrated assessment of water resources: Australian experiences B.F.W. Croke, J.L. Ticehurst, R.A. Letcher, J.P. Norton, L.T.H. Newham, A. J. Jakeman