Description
Book SynopsisThis proceedings volume contains papers and extended abstracts presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Watershed Management (SuWaMa 2014). The Conference was the second in a series of Sustainable Watershed Management Conferences. The objective of the Conference Series was to present and discuss advanced environmental models and contemporary decision support tools for the sustainable use and development of watersheds.
Contributions cover the following topics: sound watershed management practices (case studies and examples from various countries including lessons learned from implementation of both successful and deficient management scenarios), decision support tools (such as monitoring, GIS, ecological economics, cost/benefit analysis and decision making models), integrated environmental model applications for management (including watershed, air-shed, coastal, and living resource models), trans-boundary environmental issues (air pollution, climate change, coastal oceans at regional, continental, and global scales) and global watershed sustainability. This multidisciplinary volume will benefit natural and social scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals as well as stakeholders with an interest in water resources and their management.
Table of ContentsPreface Section 1: Keynotes: An emerging multi-level SPSI for sustainable management of the Romanian watersheds; Chehalis river basin management studies; Managing interfaces in catchment modelling; Regional risk assessment for climate change impacts on marine coastal water; Groundwater and dependent ecosystems: A review on process and measurement methods; Innovative group decision making framework for managing regional hydro-systems; Participatory decision-making methodology for water quality management in the Brazilian water basin; Agricultural water demand management in the south-eastern Anatolia region (Turkey); Section 2: Good watershed management Section 3: Modelling Section 4: Decision support tools
