Suhardiman, DianaBastakoti, Ram C.Karki, EmmaBharati, Luna
Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their water programs globally. This article presents river basin planning as a function of power and contested arena of power struggles, where state actors create, sustain, and reprod...
Since the arrival in the early 2000s of River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) and Programmes of Measures (PoM) as part of the Water Framework Directive, water authorities across Europe have increasingly moved towards Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) (see Integrated Water Resources Management: What is it and why is it used?). However, full...
Water resources globally are affected by a complex mixture of stressors resulting from a range of drivers, including urban and agricultural land use, hydropower generation and climate change. Understanding how stressors interfere and impact upon ecological status and ecosystem services is essential for developing effective River Basin Management Pl...
The need to provide water managers with advice regarding selection and use of models in the context of implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) has been addressed by the Benchmark Models for the Water Framework Directive (BMW) project funded under the EC 5th Framework Programme. In this respect a Model Evaluation Tool (MET) h...