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Soncini-Sessa, Rodolfo

 
9780444530127: Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management: Practice: Volume 1b (Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment, Volume 1b)
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ISBN 10: 0444530126 ISBN 13: 9780444530127
Editorial: Elsevier Science, 2007

Sinopsis

A participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources is presented and illustrated through its application to a real-world case study: the planning of a trans-boundary, multi-purpose, regulated lake. Methods and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Optimal Control, Decision and Negotiation Theory are presented and framed in a comprehensive and coherent procedure for the efficient development of the decision-making process. Relevant theoretical and mathematical aspects are briefly presented for the non-expert reader, as well as all those practical details that are often omitted in texts, but that constitute the very essence of a project and make the difference between a successful project and a failure. The book provides practicing professionals, decision-makers and scientists with a complete, immediate example of application of the Integrated Water Resource Management paradigm.

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Acerca del autor

Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa received his PhD on System Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1972; he was with the Water Group of the International Institute for System Analysis (IIASA) several times since 1975 and thought Water Management in some Italian Universities before being full professor of Natural Resources Management at the Politecnico di Milano. He is chair of the IFAC TC on Modelling & Control of Environmental Systems, and in the Editorial Boards of Water International and Journal of Environmental Modelling and Software. His main research interests are in the design of DSS for participatory decision making in the area of water resources.

De la contraportada

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), the new paradigm proposed by the Water Forum and UNESCO to cope with the water challenge of the new century, promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximise the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner, without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. Such a process must begin from the periphery and move towards the centre, from the particular towards the general, in brief bottom-up and not top-down, as is traditional, to construct a viewpoint that is holistic and shared, that embodies the viewpoints of the individuals as partial viewpoints all, however, equally considered.

IWRM requires a multidisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge, concepts and tools from different fields ranging from Hydrology, through System and Control Theory, to Decision and Negotiation Theory. To this end, a procedure is required in which all these items are coherently framed and scoping, modelling, planning, policy design, evaluation and negotiations are not developed as separated processes but interpreted as the coordinated stages of the decision-making process. The target of this book is to define and develop such a procedure, namely, a Participatory and Integrated Planning (PIP) procedure, to analyse some of the main methods and tools to adopt in its stages and to demonstrate how they can be effectively intermeshed. Giving space to both theoretical and practical aspects, the book is tailored to researchers and university students, as well as water resources practising professionals.

Ten appendices providing the essential background notions (statistics, system analysis and modelling, principles of negotiations and mediation) are available on the annexed CD, where the reader can also find a number of exercises and project examples that can be used to experiment with the PIP procedure. A twin volume (Volume 1B), focusing on the more practical aspects of the proposed procedure, is available in the same series: it shows how to get IWRM actually applied in a real life project.

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Editorial
Elsevier Science
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0444530126
ISBN 13 
9780444530127
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
428
Contacto del fabricante
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