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Managing Water Resources in Large River Basins
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Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in larger basins, because of the greater complexity and competing interests, there is often a greater need for long-term strategic river basin planning across sectors and jurisdictions, and considering social, environmental, and economic outcomes. This puts a focus on sustainable development, including consumptive water use and non-consumptive water uses, such as inland navigation and hydropower. It also requires the consideration of hard or technical issues—data, modeling, infrastructure—as well as soft issues of governance, including legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and political economy. Rapidly evolving technologies could play a significant role in managing large basins. This Special Issue of Water traverses these hard and soft aspects of managing water resources in large river basins through a series of diverse case studies from across the globe that demonstrate recent advances in both technical and governance innovations in river basin management.
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Keywords
- analytics
- Brahmaputra River Basin
- cascade reservoirs operation
- co-production
- conjunctive water use
- conservation measures
- Cooperation
- Copula function
- dam
- damage
- Development assistance
- digital platforms
- disruptive technology
- ecosystem
- Environmental assessment
- environmental flows
- equitable water sharing
- Ganga River
- GIS
- hydrologic modelling
- hydrological modelling
- hydropower
- India
- Information technology
- integrated water resource management
- Integrated Water Resources Management
- international and transboundary rivers
- Irrigation
- IWRM
- large basins
- multi-objective competition mechanism
- n/a
- Nile River basin
- Pareto set
- participatory modelling
- passive microwave soil moisture
- Rational Choice
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Research & information: general
- river basin planning
- river basins
- scenario analysis
- SMAP
- soil moisture downscaling
- South Asia
- Stakeholder Engagement
- stakeholder participation
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
- transboundary waters
- UN watercourse convention
- water data
- Water Governance
- water resources management
- Water security
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0467-4Editions