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Lee, Chiao-Tzu Patricia, and N/A. "Applicability of the Integrative Workplace Health Management (IWHM) Model in Taiwan." Griffith University. Griffith School of Environment11, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070824.102636.
Full textLee, Chiao-Tzu Patricia. "Applicability of the Integrative Workplace Health Management (IWHM) Model in Taiwan." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366793.
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Bartscher, Thomas. "Methoden des integrierten Workflow-Managements (IWFM) /." Paderborn : HNI, 2001. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009259287&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
Full textMartinez, V., and M. Alvaro. "Integrated water resources management (IWRM) for sustainable development." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/45276.
Full textKaiser, David B., Thomas Köhler, and Thomas Weith. "Informations- und Wissensmanagement im Nachhaltigen Landmanagement (IWM im NLM)." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101055.
Full textMills-Novoa, Megan, and Rossi Taboada Hermoza. "Coexistence and Conflict: IWRM and Large-Scale Water Infrastructure Development in Piura, Peru." WATER ALTERNATIVES ASSOC, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624755.
Full textHartwig, Melanie. "Impact of fine sediment and nutrient input on the hyporheic functionality:." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-222363.
Full textKanyerere, T. "Assessment of groundwater management for domestic use from IWRM perspective in upper Limphasa river catchment, Malawi." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4055.
Full textThe research problem for this study is the limited and unsuccessful implementation of the IWRM concept. This thesis has argued that comprehensive assessment of physical and socioeconomic conditions is essential to provide explanation on factors that limit the successful execution of the IWRM approach. It has further argued that the local IWRM works as proxy for full and successful implementation of the IWRM approach.To contextualise this thesis, the prevailing physical and socioeconomic factors in Malawi in relation to current management and usage of water resources were explained.With 1,321m3 per capita per year against index thresholds of 1,700-1,000m3 per capita per year, this study showed that Malawi is a physically water stressed country but not physically water scarce country although economically it is a water scarce country. This novelty is against some literature that present Malawi as a water abundant country.Again, this study showed that executing a full and successful IWRM in Malawi remains a challenge because of the prevailing socioeconomic situation in terms of water policies,water laws, institutions and management instruments. These aspects have not been reformed and harmonised to facilitate a successful operation of the IWRM approach.The main water-related problem in Malawi is the mismanagement of the available water resources. This is largely due to the lack of implementing management approaches which can generate systematic data for practical assessment of water resources to guide the coordinated procedure among water stakeholders working in catchments. This lack of implementing a coordinated management approach commonly known as integrated water resources management (IWRM) can be attributed to various reasons that includei) lack of comprehensive assessment of factors that can explain lack of successful IWRM implementation at catchment level and ii) lack of methods to demonstrate data generation and analysis on quantity, quality and governance of water that show practical operation of IWRM at community level using groundwater as a showcase among others.This study revealed that introducing local IWRM requires a prior knowledge of the evolution and role of the full IWRM concept in the international water policy which aimed at addressing broader developmental objectives. Globally, the current status of the IWRM concept has potential to address such broader developmental objectives, but sustaining IWRM projects where they have been piloted showed slow progress. Basing on the factors that slow such a progress, local IWRM approach has emerged as a proxy to execute the full IWRM as demonstrated in chapter 8 in this thesis. However, the observed lack of sustainable resources to fund continual functioning of local IWRM activities will defeat its potential solution to water management challenges. The main threat for sustainable local IWRM activities is the tendency of national governments to decentralise roles and responsibilities to local governments and communities without the accompanying financial resources to enable the implementation of the local participation, investments and initiatives at local level. If this tendency could be reversed, the contribution by local IWRM towards solving management problems in the water sector will be enormous. Chapter four has provided the general case-study approach used in this study in terms of research design, data collection methods, data analysis methods, ethical consideration and limitation of the current study within the context of water resource management with a focus on groundwater management.Using geologic map, satellite images, photographs and hydrogeologic conceptual model, the following results emerged: 1) that the Upper Limphasa River catchment has fractured rock aquifer with limited permeability and storage capacity; 2) The topographic nature and north-south strikes of the lineaments explained the north-south flow direction of groundwater in the catchment; 3) The drainage system observed in the Kandoli and Kaning’ina Mountains to the east and west of the Upper Limphasa River catchment respectively (Fig. 5.1; Fig.5.2) formed a groundwater recharge boundary; 4)The regional faults in the same mountains (Fig. 5.1; Fig.5.2) formed structural boundar as well as hydrogeologic boundary which controlled flow direction of the groundwater;5) the hydrogeologic conceptual model showed the existence of the forested weathered bedrock in the upland areas of the entire catchment which formed no-flow boundary and groundwater divide thereby controlling the water flow direction downwards (Fig. 5.9);6) The major agricultural commercial activities existed in Lower Limphasa catchment while only subsistence farming existed in Upper Limphasa catchment. This knowledge and visualization from the map (Fig. 5.3) and conceptual model (Fig.5.9) showed interactions between upland and lowland areas and the role of physical factors in controlling groundwater flow direction in the catchment. It also provided the enlightenment on implications of socioeconomic farming activities on water management. These insights enabled this study to recommend the need for expedited implementation of holistic effective management for sustainable water utilization.Using different physical factors, water scarcity indices and methodologies, this study showed that Malawi is a physically water stressed as well as an economic water scarce country. This novelty is against some literature that present Malawi as a water abundant country. Again, despite the high proportion (85%) of Malawians relying on groundwater resource, groundwater availability (storage in km3) is relatively low (269 km3 in Table 6.10) compared to other countries within SADC and Africa. Given the complexity of groundwater abstraction, the available groundwater for use is further reduced for Malawians who depend on such a resource for their domestic and productive livelihoods. Such insights provided the basis for discussing the need for IWRM.Although daily statistics on groundwater demand (i: 21.20 litres; 116.91 litres;80,550.99 litres), use (ii: 16.8 litres; 92.55 litres; 63,766.95 litres) and abstracted but not used (iii: 4.4; 24.36; 16,784.04 litres) were relatively low per person, per household and per sub-catchment respectively, such statistics when calculated on monthly basis (i.Demand: 636 litres; 3,507.30 litres; 2,416,529.70 litres; ii.Use:504 litres; 2,776.5 litres;1, 913, 008.5 litres iii. Abstracted but not used: 132 litres; 730 litres; 503, 521.2); and on yearly basis (i. Demand: 7,632 litres; 42,087.6 litres; 28,998,356.4 litres; ii. Use: 6,048 litres; 33,318 litres; 22, 956, 102 litres; iii: Abstracted but not used: 1,584 litres; 8,769.6 litres; 6,042,254.4 litres) per person, per household and per sub-catchment provided huge amount of groundwater (Table 6.5). Given the limited storage capacity of fractured rock aquifer in the basement complex geology, the monthly and yearly groundwater demand and use on one hand and abstracted but not used on the other was considered enormous. With the population growth rate of 2.8 for Nkhata Bay (NSO, 2009) and the observed desire to intensify productive livelihoods activities coupled with expected negative effects of climate change, the need to implement IWRM approach for such groundwater resource in the study catchment remains imperative and is urgently needed.In addition to identifying and describing factors that explain the limited groundwater availability in the study catchment, the study developed a methodology for calculating groundwater demand, use and unused at both households and sub-catchment levels.This methodology provided step-by-step procedure for collecting data on groundwater demand and use as a tool that would improve availability of data on groundwater.Implications of such results for IWRM in similar environments were discussed. Despite the time-consuming procedure involved in using the developed methodology, the calculations are simple and interpretation of results is easily understood among various stakeholders. Hence, such an approach is recommended for the IWRM approach which requires stakeholders from various disciplines to interact and collaborate. Nonetheless, this recommends the use of this method as its further refinement is being sought. The analysis on groundwater quality has shown that the dominant water type in the aquifers of Upper Limphasa catchment was Ca-HCO3, suggesting that the study area had shallow, fresh groundwater with recent recharged aquifer. Analyses on physicochemical parameters revealed that none of the sampled boreholes (BHs) and protected shallow dug wells (PSWs) had physical or chemical concentration levels of health concern when such levels were compared with 2008-World Health Organisation(WHO) guidelines and 2005-Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS). Conversely, although the compliance with 2008-WHO and 2005-MBS of pathogenic bacteria (E.coli) in BHs water was 100% suggesting that water from BHs had low risk and free from bacteriological contamination, water from PSWs showed 0% compliance with 2008-WHO and 2005-MBS values implying high risk to human health. The overall assessment on risk to health classification showed that PSWs were risky sources to supply potable water, hence the need to implement strategies that protect groundwater.On the basis of such findings, the analysis in this study demonstrated the feasibility of using IWRM approach as a platform for implementing environmental and engineering interventions through education programmes to create and raise public awareness on groundwater protection and on the need for collaborative efforts to implement protective measures for their drinking water sources. The use of different analytical methods which were applied to identify the exact sources of the observed contaminants in the PSWs proved futile. Therefore, this study concluded that rolling-out PSWs either as improved or safe sources of drinking water requires further detailed investigations.However, this research recommended using rapid assessment of drinking water-quality (RADWQ) methods for assessing the quality of groundwater sources for drinking. Despite the study area being in the humid climatic region with annual rainfall above 1,000 mm, many of the physical factors were not favourable for availability of more groundwater in the aquifers. Such observation provided compelling evidence in this study to commend the local IWRM as a proxy for the full IWRM implementation for sustainable utilization of such waters. Although institutional arrangements, water laws and water policy were found problematic to facilitate a successful implementation of full IWRM at national level in Malawi, this thesis demonstrated that local institutional arrangements, coordination among institutions, data collection efforts by local community members (active participation), self-regulation among local community committees were favourable conditions for a successful local IWRM in the Upper Limphasa River catchment. This research recommends continuation of such local participation, investment and initiatives as proxy for the full and successful IWRM beyond the study catchment. However, the observed lack of financial resource from central government to facilitates local IWRM activities were seen as counterproductive.In addition, this thesis recommended further studies which should aim at improving some observed negative implications of self-regulations on community members and the limited decentralisation elements from the Department of Water Development.Finally, one of the contributions from this study is the scientific value in using different methods to assess the quality of groundwater as presented in chapter 7. The second value is the demonstration of applying practical techniques to evaluate factors that explain the amount of groundwater storage in the aquifers that can be understood by water scientists, water users, water developers and water managers to implement IWRM collaboratively using groundwater as a showcase. The third contribution is the provision of the procedure to systematically generate data on demand (abstraction) and use of groundwater in unmetered rural areas which has the potential to guide water allocation process in the catchment. Fourthly, the thesis has provided a hydrogeologic conceptual model for the first time for Limphasa River catchment to be used as a visual tool for planning and developing management practices and addressing current water problems.Fifthly, the study has shown how local IWRM works at community level as a proxy for the full implementation of IWRM despite the absence of Catchment Management Agencies. The last contribution is the dissemination of results from this study made through publications and conference presentations as outlined in the appendix.
Hepworth, Nicholas David. "A progressive critique of IWRM in sub-Saharan Africa : beyond capacity towards self-determined regulatory personality." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520450.
Full textHasemi, Mukhtar. "A socio-technical assessment framework for integrated water resources management (IWRM) in Lake Urmia Basin, Iran." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1332.
Full textRoccard, Jessica. "The challenges of integrating disaster risk management (DRM), integrated water resources management (IWRM) and autonomous strategies in low-income urban areas : a case study of Douala, Cameroon." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-challenges-of-integrating-disaster-risk-management-drm-integrated-water-resources-management-iwrm-and-autonomous-strategies-in-lowincome-urban-areas-a-case-study-of-douala-cameroon(0c2849a6-0113-4a90-9922-cdb3b6967604).html.
Full textApelu-Uili, Toiata. "Working together as one?Exploring the implementation and community perception of catchment management in Samoa." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Waterways Center for Freshwater Management, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11260.
Full textKgomotso, Phemo Karen. "The challenge of implementing integrated water resources management (IWRM) in the Lower Okavango River Basin, Ngamiland district, Botswana." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textthese included drinking, growing food, and providing power for domestic and industrial use. This modus operandi continued until the end of the 1970s. Over two decades later, this focus is still prevalent in many countries in southern Africa including Botswana. As Swatuk and Rahm (2004) state, Âaugmenting supply is a continuing focus of government activityÂ. The National Water Master Plan (NWMP) is the current policy document guiding water resources management in Botswana and it focuses on supply-side interventions in response to increasing water demand. According to SMEC et al. (1991), the consulting company that conducted the NWMP study, Âthe investigation and studies... indicated the need for the continuing development of water supplies throughout Botswana over the next 30 yearsÂ. Based on these observations, government has developed significant human and technical capacity in exploiting both surface and groundwater resources (Swatuk and Rahm, 2004).
Adeoti, Olusegun. "An institutional analysis of the implementation of integrated water resources management in Nigeria." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2014. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10026.
Full textAlan, Navarro-Navarro Luis, Moreno-Vazquez Jose Luis, and Christopher A. Scott. "Social Networks for Management of Water Scarcity: Evidence from the San Miguel Watershed, Sonora, Mexico." WATER ALTERNATIVES ASSOC, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623298.
Full textMills-Novoa, Megan, and Megan Mills-Novoa. "Understanding Water Policy as Agricultural Policy: How IWRM Reform is Reshaping Agricultural Landscapes under Climate Change in Piura, Peru." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621847.
Full textMotloung, Sysman. "Political culture and socialisation responses to integrated water resources management (IWRM) : the case of Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality / Sysman Motloung." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10324.
Full textMA, Political Studies, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2011
Birkholz, Sharon Alice. "Human-river relationships in the Kat River catchment and the implications for integrated water resource management (IWRM) : an exploraratory study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2009. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1581/.
Full textLeidel, Marco. "Transdisciplinarity as a means for capacity development in water resources management." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-235422.
Full textHumphrey, Ariel. "IWRM-tested national law and policies : towards catchment-based management of water resources during the life cycle of large-scale mining sites." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/6155a235-97c0-468e-a869-f2a0eeddd499.
Full textYu, Haiyan. "Water, power and IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) : a comparative study of village water governance in arid and semi-arid Northwest China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:40d64a36-8d2f-4146-9e7b-fcfad9602953.
Full textEdestav, Johanna. "Water Management of River Basins : A Case Study in Kiru Valley, Tanzania." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3557.
Full textThis case study was made in Kiru Valley in the northeast Tanzania in order to study the water management to get a picture of which institutions that are involved, how conflicts are resolved, and also to see if all farmers in the area have an influence in the management. The area consists of big-scale farmers, small-scale farmers with IFAD irrigation scheme and small-scale farmers without irrigation scheme. The irrigation scheme was built in 2004 in the villages Mawemairo and Matufa. Mapea village is located downstream and has got less water after the scheme was built. The case study was conducted by semi-structured interviews with some officials at different institutions in the District, Mawemairo and Mapea and also with some farmers in Mawemairo. The results were mainly analysed with Integrated Water Resources Management approach which have been adapted by Tanzania government. Mawemairo and Matufa have established a Water Users Association (WUA) and the water management seems to work quite good for those who are members of this. But those farmers who are not members of a WUA seem to be outside of the management of the rivers in Kiru Valley. What is missing is a platform where all relevant stakeholders in Kiru Valley, like farmers, can participate in the decision-making and where conflicts can be resolved.
Alfian, Alfian. "The Impact of Decentralization on Integrated Watershed Management (IWM): A Case Study in the Wanggu Watershed, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1588962127373195.
Full textBoer, Jan den. "Sustainability assessment for waste management planning : development and alternative use of the LCA-IWM waste management system assessment tool /." Darmstadt : Inst. WAR, 2007. http://www.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/tocs/194398196.pdf.
Full textWu, Changhong. "Groundwater Occurrence of Table Mountain area in Cape Town South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5926_1279233915.
Full textGroundwater is an important water resource to be used to supplement the water demand for the City of Cape Town for present and future generations. Understanding the groundwater occurrence of the Table Mountain area is very important for future groundwater exploitation and management. Apart from the sea in the west, Table Mountain is mostly surrounded by the unconsolidated sediments including the Kirstenbosch, Newlands, and Oranjezicht areas. These areas are rich in groundwater resources, like springs
some of them were utilized, others not. However, there are few studies that focused on spring resource in this area. No up to date information is available for spring resources research and relative data is lacking from local research institutions. In fact, some of the spring resources in the Table Mountain area had been extracted and been utilized for local community for many years. Data and information newly obtained from this study about such groundwater resources will help future groundwater development and management. There are at least 13 springs in the selected study area. Those springs were investigated for groundwater occurrence, because spring is an important manifestation of the underlying aquifer through which groundwater dynamics can be detected. The main objective of the study was to sketch a clear picture of groundwater occurrence and to obtain an improved understanding of how geomorphology affects groundwater flow, its manifestation and quality. Water resources management is also important because this kind of water resource can be used to help meet the water demand of this local area in the future. There is relationship between the topographical features of the Table Mountain and spring occurrence. The research area delineated is used to interpret the relationship. Hydro-geochemical analysis is carried out to indicate the chemical components of the groundwater and to understand the groundwater type and water quality of this particular area. Based on the completed analysis and interpretation of factors influencing discharge and recharge, some good results were obtained and useful information is made available for first time.
Mahmud-ul-Islam, Syed. "Land use Change Detection of the Buriganga River Using GIS Tools and its Water Management for Promoting a Sustainable Environment." Thesis, KTH, Miljöbedömning och -förvaltning, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-57991.
Full textHassan, Mahmoud Wifag. "Water Harvesting for Integrated Water Resources Management and Sustainable Development in Khartoum State." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-125079.
Full textGalafassi, Diego. "Challenges for an Integrated Water Resource Management in the Merguellil basin (Tunisia)." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/1571/.
Full textBombeck, Markus [Verfasser], Harro [Gutachter] Stolpe, K. U. [Gutachter] Rudolph, and Andreas H. [Gutachter] Schumann. "Allokation von Wasserressourcen durch Integration ökonomischer Aspekte im IWRM am Beispiel des Einzugsgebietes "Mittlerer Olifants", Südafrika / Markus Bombeck ; Gutachter: Harro Stolpe, K.-U. Rudolph, Andreas H. Schumann ; Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1201549728/34.
Full textJolk, Christian [Verfasser], Harro [Gutachter] Stolpe, Marc [Gutachter] Wichern, K. U. [Gutachter] Rudolph, and Andreas H. [Gutachter] Schumann. "Räumliches Entscheidungsunterstützungssystem zur Wasserbewirtschaftung von Flusseinzugsgebieten unter Berücksichtigung von IWRM Grundsätzen : Oberes Dong Nai Flusseinzugsgebiet, Vietnam / Christian Jolk ; Gutachter: Harro Stolpe, Marc Wichern, K.-U. Rudolph, Andreas H. Schumann ; Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1226426476/34.
Full textMcClain, Shanna N. "MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE IN EUROPEAN RIVER BASINS: CHALLENGES IN THE INTEGRATION OF ADAPTATION, DISASTER RESPONSE, AND RESILIENCE." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1280.
Full textAtay, Itri. "Water Resources Management in Greece : Perceptions about Water Problems in the Nafplion Area." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-85379.
Full textAlamarah, Abdelrahman. "Pro-poor water tariff under uncertain socio-economic conditions : a study of Palestine." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6352.
Full textTuran, Numan. "The Contribution Of Rumination, Internal Working Models Of Attachment, And Help Seeking Attitudes On Psychological Symptoms Of University Students." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610972/index.pdf.
Full textHorowitz, 1991), Relationship Scale Questionnaire (Griffin &
Bartholomew, 1994), Brief Symptom Inventory (Derogatis, 1992), Ruminative Response Scale (Nolen-Hoeksema &
Marrow, 1991) and Attitudes toward Seeking Psychological Help - Shortened (Tü
rkü
m, 2001) were delivered to the university students at university campuses. Multiple regression analyses were implemented to evaluate the research hypotheses. The results revealed that rumination, internal model of others, and negative beliefs about psychological help significantly predicted the increase in psychological symptoms of Turkish university students. Positive beliefs about psychological help did not relate to psychological symptoms of university students for the current set of data. In addition to this, rumination mediated the relationship between internal model of self and psychological symptoms of university students. The research findings were discussed by relying on the previous research premises.
Vila, Gisselle. "Institutional bricolage in Peruvian Amazonia: a native community’s experience." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/78621.
Full textThis article explores the institutional bricolage process developed in a native community, which derives in the creation of a water user’s association. Based on a historical review, the article identifies the borrowing dynamics from previous arrangements, such as family relationships and meetings, in order to make sense of the new institutional frameworks promoted by development projects, such as cooperative work and the payment of a water tariff. The argument proposes that this is a process of institutional alteration, because it does not led to the creation of a qualitatively different organism, but rather it reproduces previously stablished logics and agreements.
Nilsson, Susanna. "The role and use of information in transboundary water management." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Land and Water Resources Engineering, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1604.
Full textManagement of water bodies according to their river basinsis becoming increasingly common, as the concept of IntegratedWater Resources Management (IWRM) is getting more and moreacknowl-edged. In Europe, a large portion of thesenewmanagement units will probably be internationalor transboundary. Decisions and policies consideringtransboundary water issues need to be based on reliable andcomprehendible information. In this thesis, a review of variousexisting models that may be used for understanding the role anduse of information in (transboundary) water management ispresented. Further, the thesis reports on an assessment of theinformation management of three transboundary water regimes inEurope, namely the international water commissions for LakeNeusiedl, Lake Constance and Elbe River. Besides examining theinformation management of the regimes as such, the managementwas also related to information needs implied by the IWRMcon-cept and by the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Thereviewed models and approaches were grouped into threecategories: information management models, information cyclemodels and communication between actors. The first categorycomprised models that may be used for managing and assessingdifferent types of information. The second group dealt withmodels explaining the production and communication ofinformation predominately from an information producer/senderperspective. The third group focused on ideas concerninginteractions and communication of information between differentkinds of actors. The studies on information management intransboundary water regimes showed that the information needsand strategies often were defined primarily with watercommissionsown needs in mind. The data collected by thecommissions were predominated by monitoring data, describingthe status of the environment and the impact caused by humanactivities. Furthermore, any communication of information toother groups of actors was mainly done through passivechannels. The information management in these transboundarywater regimes was not fully in accordance with informationneeds implied by the IWRM concept and the EU WFD.
Keywords:Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM);transboundary water management; information; EU Water FrameworkDirective (WFD); regimes; policy and decision making; LakeNeusiedl; Lake Constance; Elbe River.
French, Adam. "A new water culture?: institutional inertia and technocratic water management in Peru." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/78796.
Full textThe 2009 Hydrologic Resources Law (Law 29338) shifted the legal and institutional framework in Peru’s water sector toward a focus on Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). This change formally ended the explicit prioritization of water for agricultural uses that had prevailed for four decades under the prior legal regime enacted during the nation’s agrarian reform. This article combines analysis of Peru’s current legal and institutional setting for water management with examination of the historical dynamics betweenthe state water bureaucracy and Peruvian society to argue that the existing arrangements for water governance reflect the enduring influence of an engineer-led technocracy rooted in the high-modernist approaches of the 20th century. The article illustrates how the state bureaucracy has consolidated centralized authority over the water sector through assimilation and adaptation of the IWRM paradigm and the development of a water regime that prioritizesthe formalization of water rights, recognition of the economic value of water, and water-use efficiency.
Reichert, Geraldo Antonio. "Apoio à tomada de decisão por meio da avaliação do ciclo de vida em sistemas de gerenciamento integrado de resíduos sólidos urbanos : o caso de Porto Alegre." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/87557.
Full textThis thesis aims to evaluate, through life cycle assessment, the participation of different stakeholders in building sustainable integrated municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems to provide decision-making support in the choice of future MSW management scenarios. Participant stakeholders were professionally linked to the municipal solid waste authority and other external experts who were linked with the environmental subjects and solid waste management. Through structured techniques stakeholders were asked to build future scenarios, using as a basis the current scenario, and setting options for the MSW collection, treatment and disposal, and the definition of weights to be adopted in the weighting of indicators and sub-indices of sustainability. The developed methodology was applied to the MSW management system of the city of Porto Alegre, adopting the data and information relating to the year 2011. The software IWM-2 was used in order to get the life cycle inventory (LCI) data. Environmental, economic and social indicators and sub-indices were calculated for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). An overall sustainability index was calculated and used to ranking current and constructed scenarios. The study has demonstrated that scenarios constructed exclusively with the participation of municipal authority stakeholders showed higher level of origin separate collection, greater coverage of automated collection (containerization), greater participation of composting treatment process and a lower waste disposal into sanitary landfill. Anaerobic digestion appears as an option to be used in the settings assembled by the two groups (municipal stakeholders and all stakeholders). The two groups of stakeholders showed rejection of incineration technology, both in the initial assembly and in the hierarchy of these scenarios based on personal perception of thereof sustainability. The scenario built with the optimistic view of all stakeholders resulted in better performance for the environmental and social sustainability sub-indices, however, with the worst economic performance (higher unit cost between all scenarios). The scenario built with the optimistic view of the municipal authority stakeholders had the best economic performance, ranking third in the environmental and social criteria. The overall sustainability index, calculated trough weighing of the weights assigned by the stakeholders to the sub-indices (environmental, economic and social), showed that the best overall performance of all scenarios was the municipal authority stakeholders scenario. We also conclude that, when future scenarios are mounted, MSW management technologies for segregated and container collection, treatments as composting, anaerobic digestion, RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) and incineration should be considered and evaluated; and that the LCIA tool is appropriated for decision-making support in order to get sustainable MSW systems.
Edmunds, Linsey S. "Transboundary Conservation: Sustainable Resources Management and Lake Skadar/Shkoder." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1523877674015642.
Full textDu, Plessis Valerie. "An environmental management framework for DWAF related projects / Valerie du Plessis." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/662.
Full textThesis (M.Sc. (Geography and Environmental Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
Vermue, Anthony. "Contribution à l'évaluation multicritère des systèmes de culture en protection intégrée contre les adventices : cas des émissions de protoxyde d'azote." Thesis, Dijon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014DIJOS006/document.
Full textIn the context of the multicriteria evaluation of Integrated Weed Management (IWM) cropping systems, our study highlights the impacts of the combination of alternative agricultural practices to herbicide reliance on N2O emissions from soils. The study was located at the INRA experimental site of Dijon-Epoisses (47 ° 20'N, 5 ° 2'E) and considered 4 cropping systems, a reference system designed to maximize financial returns (S1) and three IWM systems (S2, S3, S5). The setup of high resolution measuring devices, combining the non-steady state chamber method with infrared gas analysis, allowed to estimate the intensity of N2O emissions from the calcareous clay soil, which is specific of Dijon plain, with average fluxes laying between -6 and 257 g N2O-N ha-1 day-1. The intensity of fluxes was closely related to environmental parameters (temperature, water filled pore space, inorganic N amount) and particular agricultural practices, leading to significant differences between systems. N2O emissions were notably affected by soil management and nature of crops. The conversion of S2 system to no-till in 2008 increased the N2O emissions, fluxes being at least 6 times more important than those emitted by the other cropping systems, during the year 2012. Moreover, these emissions, equivalent to 0.7 ha-1 C-CO2 ha-1, could have offset the soil additional carbon sequestration induced by reduced tillage during the studying period. Similarly, the degradation of legume crop residues in the S3 and S5 systems respectively enhanced N2O emissions in 2011 and 2012, by comparison with the S1 reference system. Elsewhere, the monthly monitoring of the soil microbial communities sizes has also helped to highlight temporal variability induced by the agricultural practices (tillage, harvest) as well as the seasonal variability. However, in this study the fluctuations of nitrifying and denitrifying communities sizes observed did not explain the variability of N2O emissions, whatever the considered cropping system. Finally, the modeling of N2O emitted from the 4 cropping systems, using NOE and DNDC models, allowed to identify the mains factors regulating the emissions. In addition, the NOE model accurately identified the S2 system, without tillage, as the most N2O emitter, in accordance with field observations. Thus, our study reinforces the relevance of modeling to estimate and explain N2O emissions in different cropping systems
Kamara, Saliou. "Développements hydrauliques et gestion d'un hydrosystème largement anthropisé : le delta du fleuve Sénégal." Phd thesis, Université d'Avignon, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00965106.
Full textTanouti, Oumaima. "La gestion intégrée des ressources en eau à l'épreuve du bassin versant : cas du bassin du Tensift au Maroc." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100172/document.
Full textUntil recently, water was considered abundant and inexhaustible, and increased mobilization was the answer given to the increased needs related to the increase in human activity. Nevertheless, with the emergence of use conflicts, the technicist ideology has been called into question and has given way to more integrated models of management. IWRM and the establishment of basin organization have therefore become imperatives of good governance of the water sector, widely promoted by "international policy entrepreneurs". Morocco undertook a comprehensive reform of the water sector in 1995, based on these two principles, which led to the creation of a basin agency.Two decades later, the articulation of the legal and institutional framework of the sector seems inefficient. The constraints related to path dependencies and the institutional environment have, in fact, largely shaped the Agencies creating an important gap between the "Basin Agency Model" and its Moroccan translation. The analysis of the Agency's action in the Tensift Basin reveals that its power is being diluted in favor of other sectors that maintain their historic prerogatives over the resource. It is moreover retained at the central level, by the ministry of supervision. Facing the economic and political stakes that operate at the basin level, and which limit its fields of action, the Agency is forced to ‘laisser- aller’ attitude, which is in itself a form of demand management that allows to operate a 'natural selection' carries inequalities and social risks as well as increased environmental degradation
Diop, Penda. "Vers une stratégie de gestion participative multi-usages de la ressource en eau dans le delta du fleuve Sénégal : processus de décision et outils de régulation autour du lac de Guiers." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLV045/document.
Full textThe aim of the thesis is to evaluate the relevance of the participatory approach as a leverage tool to achieve a better shared and sustainable local management of water resources around lake Guiers in Senegal. It is the only freshwater lake of importance in the country. Located in a semi-desert zone of the Sahelian ecological region, lake Guiers is coveted by several types of uses. It is considered both nationally and locally as a vital resource for drinking water supply in nearby regions and large cities as a strategic resource for maintaining food self-sufficiency, as well as being a vector of economic development of the agro-pastoral village communities.The methodological approach adopted is the "bottom-up" approach, starting from field diagnosis of the case of lake Guiers. It is based on interviews and questionnaire surveys with managers and users of the lake’s water, an analysis of the sets of actors in an evolving institutional framework and the analysis of the spatial dynamics of distribution of the uses of the lake’s water. This diagnosis demonstrates the extent to which the participatory approach advocated in the water management strategies and plans of lake Guiers is effectively implemented and strengthens the participation of water resource users in order to achieve a better shared and sustainable management of this water resource.The participatory approach is functional only if the management framework is part of a comprehensive, collaborative and integrated management approach in which all users and managers are involved in the decision-making process (co-management). Furthermore, the participatory approach is often difficult to organize. This difficulty increases when the geographical scope is large and the aim is to involve all the users and managers concerned at all levels with sometimes contradictory interests. Moreover, the thesis reveals that the increase in the implantation of economic activities that are supposed to benefit the region leads to perverse effects that run counter to the objectives of the management plans: a drop in water quality and of the available quantities (pollution caused by discharges from agro-industries and increased collection volumes). All the series of actions (services) involved imply expenditures for the management actors (maintenance of infrastructures, control of sampling, pollution control etc.). In this area, the thesis recommends that the management of water resources in the lake should take into account this decisive dimension, by developing new management tools corresponding to the economic valuation of water and by creating an observatory, an integrating tool of its sustainable future. This is a sine qua non condition for improving the living conditions of local residents. The thesis confirms, through the case of Lake Guiers, the relevance of the theories of the participatory approach to accompany and help its management actors in their apprehension and organization of the management system
Warneck, Dorothea. "Angelika Schoder: Die Vermittlung des Unbegreiflichen. Darstellung des Holocaust im Museum." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2015. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34973.
Full textKanyerere, Thokozani Olex Butawo. "Assessment of groundwater management for domestic use from IWRM perspective in Upper Limphasa River Catchment, Malawi." Thesis, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_5745_1398422871.
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The research problem for this study is the limited and unsuccessful implementation of the IWRM concept. This thesis has argued that comprehensive assessment of physical and socioeconomic conditions is essential to provide explanation on factors that limit the successful execution of the IWRM approach. It has further argued that the local IWRM works as proxy for full and successful implementation of the IWRM approach. To contextualise this thesis, the prevailing physical and socioeconomic factors in Malawi in relation to current management and usage of water resources were explained. With 1,321m per year, this study showed that Malawi is a physically water stressed country but not physically water scarce country although economically it is a water scarce country. This novelty is against some literature that present Malawi as a water abundant country. Again, this study showed that executing a full and successful IWRM in Malawi remains a challenge because of the prevailing socioeconomic situation in terms of water policies, water laws, institutions and management instruments. These aspects have not been reformed and harmonised to facilitate a successful operation of the IWRM approach. The main water-related problem in Malawi is the mismanagement of the available water resources. This is largely due to the lack of implementing management approaches which can generate systematic data for practical assessment of water resources to guide the coordinated procedure among water stakeholders working in catchments. This lack of implementing a coordinated management approach commonly known as integrated water resources management (IWRM) can be attributed to various reasons that include i) lack of comprehensive assessment of factors that can explain lack of successful IWRM implementation at catchment level and ii) lack of methods to demonstrate data generation and analysis on quantity, quality and governance of water that show practical operation of IWRM at community level using groundwater as a showcase among others. This study revealed that introducing local IWRM requires a prior knowledge of the evolution and role of the full IWRM concept in the international water policy which aimed at addressing broader developmental objectives. Globally, the current status of the IWRM concept has potential to address such broader developmental objectives, but sustaining IWRM projects where they have been piloted showed slow progress. Basing 
on the factors that slow such a progress, local IWRM approach has emerged as a proxy to execute the full IWRM as demonstrated in chapter 8 in this thesis. However, the observed lack of sustainable resources to fund continual functioning of local IWRM activities will defeat its potential solution to water management challenges. The main threat for sustainable local IWRM activities is the tendency of national governments to decentralise roles and responsibilities to local governments and communities without the accompanying financial resources to enable the implementation of the local participation, investments and initiatives at local level. If this tendency could be reversed, the contribution by local IWRM towards solving management problems in the water sector will be enormous. Chapter four has provided the general case-study approach used in this study in terms of research design, data collection methods, data analysis methods, ethical consideration and limitation of the current study within the context of water resource management with a focus on groundwater management. Using geologic map, satellite images, photographs and hydrogeologic conceptual model, the following results emerged: 1) that the Upper Limphasa River catchment has fractured rock aquifer with limited permeability and storage capacity
2) The topographic nature and north-south strikes of the lineaments explained the north-south flow direction of groundwater in the catchment
3) The drainage system observed in the Kandoli and Kaning&rsquo
ina Mountains to the east and west of the Upper Limphasa River catchment respectively (Fig. 5.1
Fig.5.2) formed a groundwater recharge boundary
4) The regional faults in the same mountains (Fig. 5.1
Fig.5.2) formed structural boundary as well as hydrogeologic boundary which controlled flow direction of the groundwater
5) the hydrogeologic conceptual model showed the existence of the forested weathered bedrock in the upland areas of the entire catchment which formed no-flow boundary and groundwater divide thereby controlling the water flow direction downwards (Fig. 5.9)
6) The major agricultural commercial activities existed in Lower Limphasa catchment while only subsistence farming existed in Upper Limphasa catchment. This knowledge and visualization from the map (Fig. 5.3) and conceptual model (Fig.5.9) showe interactions between upland and lowland areas and the role of physical factors in controlling groundwater flow direction in the catchment. It also provided the enlightenment on implications of socioeconomic farming activities on water management. These insights enabled this study to recommend the need for expedited implementation of holistic effective management for sustainable water utilization. Using different physical factors, water scarcity indices and methodologies, this study showed that Malawi is a physically water stressed as well as an economic water scarce country. This novelty is against some literature that present Malawi as a water abundant country. Again, despite the high proportion (85%) of Malawians relying on groundwater resource, groundwater availability (storage in km 6.10) compared to other countries within SADC and Africa. Given the complexity of groundwater abstraction, the available groundwater for use is further reduced for Malawians who depend on such a resource for their domestic and productive livelihoods. Such insights provided the basis for discussing the need for IWRM. Although daily statistics on groundwater demand (i: 21.20 litres
116.91 litres
80,550.99 litres), use (ii: 16.8 litres
92.55 litres
63,766.95 litres) and abstracted but not used (iii: 4.4
24.36
16,784.04 litres) were relatively low per person, per household and per sub-catchment respectively, such statistics when calculated on monthly basis (i. Demand: 636 litres
3,507.30 litres
2,416,529.70 litres
ii.Use:504 litres
2,776.5 litres
1, 913, 008.5 litres iii. Abstracted but not used: 132 litres
730 litres
503, 521.2)
and on yearly basis (i. Demand: 7,632 litres
42,087.6 litres
28,998,356.4 litres
ii. Use: 6,048 litres
33,318 litres
22, 956, 102 litres
iii: Abstracted but not used: 1,584 litres
8,769.6 litres
6,042,254.4 litres) per person, per household and per sub-catchment provided huge amount of groundwater (Table 6.5). Given the limited storage capacity of fractured rock aquifer in the basement complex geology, the monthly and yearly groundwater demand and use on one hand and abstracted but not used on the other was considered enormous. With the population growth rate of 2.8 for Nkhata Bay (NSO, 2009) and the observed desire to intensify productive livelihoods activities coupled with expected negative effects of climate change, the need to implement IWRM approach for such groundwater resource in the study catchment remains imperative and is urgently needed. In addition to identifying and describing factors that explain the limited groundwater availability in the study catchment, the study developed a methodology for calculating groundwater demand, use and unused at both households and sub-catchment levels. This methodology provided step-by-step procedure for collecting data on groundwater demand and use as a tool that would improve availability of data on groundwater. Implications of such results for IWRM in similar environments were discussed. Despite 
the time-consuming procedure involved in using the developed methodology, the calculations are simple and interpretation of results is easily understood among various stakeholders. Hence, such an approach is recommended for the IWRM approach which requires stakeholders from various disciplines to interact and collaborate. Nonetheless, this recommends the use of this method as its further refinement is being sought. The analysis on groundwater quality has shown that the dominant water type in the aquifers of Upper Limphasa catchment was Ca-HCO had shallow, fresh groundwater with recent recharged aquifer. Analyses on physicochemical parameters revealed that none of the sampled boreholes (BHs) and protected shallow dug wells (PSWs) had physical or chemical concentration levels of health concern when such levels were compared with 2008-World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines and 2005-Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS). Conversely, although the compliance with 2008-WHO and 2005-MBS of pathogenic bacteria (E.coli) in BHs water was 100% suggesting that water from BHs had low risk and free from bacteriological contamination, water from PSWs showed 0% compliance with 2008- WHO and 2005-MBS values implying high risk to human health. The overall assessment on risk to health classification showed that PSWs were risky sources to supply potable water, hence the need to implement strategies that protect groundwater. On the basis of such findings, the analysis in this study demonstrated the feasibility of using IWRM approach as a platform for implementing environmental and engineering interventions through education programmes to create and raise public awareness on groundwater protection and on the need for collaborative efforts to implement protective measures for their drinking water sources. The use of different analytical methods which were applied to identify the exact sources of the observed contaminants in the PSWs proved futile. Therefore, this study concluded that rolling-out PSWs either as improved or safe sources of drinking water requires further detailed investigations. However, this research recommended using rapid assessment of drinking water-quality (RADWQ) methods for assessing the quality of groundwater sources for drinking. Despite the study area being in the humid climatic region with annual rainfall above 1,000 mm, many of the physical factors were not favourable for availability of more groundwater in the aquifers. Such observation provided compelling evidence in this 
study to commend the local IWRM as a proxy for the full IWRM implementation for sustainable utilization of such waters. Although institutional arrangements, water laws and water policy were found problematic to facilitate a successful implementation of full IWRM at national level in Malawi, this thesis demonstrated that local institutional arrangements, coordination among institutions, data collection efforts by local community members (active participation), self-regulation among local community committees were favourable conditions for a successful local IWRM in the Upper Limphasa River catchment. This research recommends continuation of such local participation, investment and initiatives as proxy for the full and successful IWRM beyond the study catchment. However, the observed lack of financial resource from central government to facilitates local IWRM activities were seen as counterproductive. In addition, this thesis recommended further studies which should aim at improving some observed negative implications of self-regulations on community members and the limited decentralisation elements from the Department of Water Development. Finally, one of the contributions from this study is the scientific value in using different methods to assess the quality of groundwater as presented in chapter 7. The second value is the demonstration of applying practical techniques to evaluate factors that explain the amount of groundwater storage in the aquifers that can be understood by water scientists, water users, water developers and water managers to implement IWRM collaboratively using groundwater as a showcase. The third contribution is the provision of the procedure to systematically generate data on demand (abstraction) and use of groundwater in unmetered rural areas which has the potential to guide water allocation process in the catchment. Fourthly, the thesis has provided a hydrogeologic conceptual model for the first time for Limphasa River catchment to be used as a visual tool for planning and developing management practices and addressing current water problems. Fifthly, the study has shown how local IWRM works at community level as a proxy for the full implementation of IWRM despite the absence of Catchment Management Agencies. The last contribution is the dissemination of results from this study made through publications and conference presentations as outlined in the appendix.
Magombeyi, Manuel Simba. "Innovative coupling of hydrological modelling for IWRM: linking catchment functioning with socio-economic conditions in the Olifants." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/9736.
Full textHartwig, Melanie. "Impact of fine sediment and nutrient input on the hyporheic functionality:: A case study in Northern Mongolia." Doctoral thesis, 2015. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A30243.
Full textAl, Khatri Ayisha Mohammed Humaid. "Behavior Analysis and Modeling of Stakeholders in Integrated Water Resource Management with a Focus on Irrigated Agriculture." Doctoral thesis, 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33195.
Full textLeidel, Marco. "Transdisciplinarity as a means for capacity development in water resources management." Doctoral thesis, 2017. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A29976.
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