Green infrastructures for urban water system: Balance between cities and nature

Urban water systems face severe challenges such as urbanisation, population growth and climate change. Traditional technical solutions, i.e., pipe-based, grey infrastructure, have a single purpose and are proven to be unsustainable compared to multi-purpose nature-based solutions. Green Infrastructure encompasses on-site stormwater management...

Sustainability indicators: Monitoring cross-county water cooperation in the Nzoia river basin, Kenya

Kenya Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB) Impact Report indicates a stagnation in water coverage at 55 percent, for the last three years, contrary to the 2015 target of 80 percent. One main reason for the stagnation is weak cross-county cooperation between hydrologically interdependent governments. WASREB has little guidance on what...

A study of trust and cooperation in the Nzoia river basin using a water policy game

Nzoia river basin county governments barely cooperate in water resources management to jointly increase the basin's food and energy productivity levels, due to limited trust. In this paper, we propose a game-based approach that can be replicated in any river basin, to assess trust and collaboration processes. In particular, we used the pre...

The evolution of regional cross-border water regimes, the case of Deltarhine

In this study, we look at the evolution of a cooperative water regime in the delta of the Rhine catchment. In a Dutch–German case study, we focus on cross-border cooperation on the local and regional scale, describing and analyzing how a remarkably resilient and robust transboundary water regime has evolved over the course of 50 years....

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...

An Approach to Support Learning from International Experience with Water Policy

International experiences with water policy and governance arrangements are shared through various international meetings and reports. The underlying assumption is that these experiences provide useful information to policy makers who are looking for ways to improve water resources management in their home country or region. However, little has...

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...

Toepassing klimaatscenario's in het waterbeheer en -beleid

Actor analysis for water resources management: Putting the promise into practice

Water related problems such as floods, droughts, declining groundwater tables or polluted rivers have a major impact on numerous societies throughout the world. Despite these serious problems, policy makers seem to make scant use of the knowledge that is available with water experts. Conversely, water experts face the task of finding out how...

Analyse bruikbaarheid modellen - instrumentaria voor KRW beleidtool voor kust- en overgangswateren

WEC (RWES) in a European context: EUNIS and the Water Framework Directive

Graadmeter primaire produktie, GONZ

Indicatoren basisscenario voor de zoute wateren: Ten behoeve van de toets van de vijfde nota ruimtelijke ordening

Een verkenning naar de ecosysteemontwikkeling van zoete wateren

Kwantificering van doelsoorten van de bovenrivieren voor referentiebeeld, natuurstreefbeeld, huidige situatie en huidig beleid: Watersysteemverkenningen AMOEBES bovenrivierengebied

Rekenregels voor het kwantificeren van doelsoorten aan de hand van ecotopen: Watersysteemverkenning AMOEBES bovenrivierengebied

Policy analysis in the Sea of Azov: Workshop, Delft, Februari 28 - March 7, 1994