The River as Endless Territory: Restoring the social-ecological continuum in the Philippine Archipelago

As an archipelagic territory of 7,641 islands, the Philippines is dealing with multiplicities of identities, resources, and risks that are pressured by a centralized and homogenizing development paradigm, fragmenting critical socio-spatial landscapes that further creates a hyper-vulnerable state in the face of the climate crisis. The project...

Exploring Trade-offs in Reservoir Operations through Many Objective Optimisation: Case of Nile River Basin

Water storage and diversion capacity of reservoirs in the Nile Basin are benefited for various purposes including agricultural irrigation and hydro-energy production. Filling and operation of the recently constructed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have been subject to heated debate for its implications on downstream countries Sudan and...

Assessment framework of actor strategies in international river basin management, the case of Deltarhine

The combined effects of socio-economic growth as well as climate change exert increasing pressure on international river basins and require dedicated cooperative efforts to jointly manage international rivers. Cooperative strategies drawn from scientific literature, empirical research and practitioner’s handbooks are explored and clustered...

Socio-Hydrology of Keduang Sub-basin in Central Java, Indonesia using case study approach: Understanding the relation between hydrology of Keduang sub-basin and social aspects using qualitative case study

Since coined in 2011, socio-hydrology studies have been dominated with mathematical models developed by mostly hydrologists, which often did not take social aspects into account so seriously. Some people argued that more attention into the social part of socio-hydrology should be given, because often the social aspects were too oversimplified....

Impact of water resources development on water availability for hydropower production and irrigated agriculture of the Eastern Nile basin

The Eastern Nile riparian countries are currently developing several reservoir projects to contribute to the needs for energy and food production in the region. In the absence of formal mechanisms for collaboration, the transboundary nature of the Eastern Nile basin makes water resources development challenging. The large seasonal and...

Jumping the water queue: Changing waterscapes under water reform processes in rural Zimbabwe

This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion on the implementation of water reforms in rural African waterscapes and explores how farmers in a tertiary catchment in Zimbabwe react to these reforms. It shows how privileged farmers have jumped the water queue by moving their agricultural activities upstream where they illegally divert water...

Organizing cross-sectoral collaboration in river basin management: Case studies from the Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) basins

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the drivers and constraints for effective cross-sectoral collaboration in river basin management and the extent to which factors identified in related literature determine success or failure of collaboration in selected case studies. Cases selected were from industrialized and densely populated catchments, where...

Weshareit: A Nexus Approach To Nile Basin Water Resources Management

Climate change and water resources management - 4th Yangtze Forum

1 The Swiss Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (Probst Thomas, Hohmann Roland, Koellner-Heck Pamela) 2 Adaptation to Water-Related Disasters Caused by Extreme Weather Conditions (Takara Kaoru) 3 The Application of Macro Scale Distributed Hydrological Model in Runoff Simulation of JiaLingJiang River Basin (Junliang Jin, Guoqing Wang,...

Performance Assessment of Water Sectors: Methods and considerations for application

With the rise of principles for water management in the 1990’s such as concepts as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM), many countries have come to review their water policy and sectors. But how does one start in the assessment of a water sector with so many different variables and...

The Practice of Transboundary Decision Making on the Incomati River: Elucidating Underlying Factors and their Implications for Institutional Design

The Incomati River Basin is shared by Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland. In August 2002, the groundbreaking “Tripartite Interim Agreement on Water Sharing of the Maputo and Incomati Rivers” (the IncoMaputo agreement) was signed. Following reports that the use, availability, and adequacy of information posed problems for future decision...

Cultural Factors as Co-Determinants of Participation in River Basin Management

Finding a place for public participation in the policies and practices of European river basin management planning is a challenge for the authorities in the participating countries and territories. Understanding the relation between national culture, the historical and political differences in the respective countries, and their practical...

Social Learning in European River-Basin Management: Barriers and Fostering Mechanisms from 10 River Basins

We present and analyze 10 case studies of participatory river-basin management that were conducted as part of the European HarmoniCOP project. The main theme was social learning, which emphasizes the importance of collaboration, organization, and learning. The case studies show that social learning in river-basin management is not an unrealistic...

Development of Methodologies for the Analysis of the Efficiency of Flood Reduction Measures in the Rhine Basin on the Basis of Reference Floods

After some years of extreme flooding in the 1990s extended efforts were made to improve flood protection by means of an integrated river basin management. Part of this strategy is the implementation of decentralised flood reduction measures (FRM). With this in mind, the CHR/IRMA-SPONGE Project DEFLOOD was initiated. By establishing a set of...

Recommendations and guidelines on sustainable river basin management

This report contains the outcomes of the workshop: the "Recommendations and<br/>Guidelines on Sustainable River Basin Management" and a short key message.<br/>These outcomes were formulated by the participants in parallel and plenary<br/>sessions, and adopted in the final session. The annexes of this report contain the<br/>list of participants...

Danube Environmental Programme - Hron river basin pre-investment study: Main report