Watershed management

This project has explored the implementation of an integrative and collaborative policy _ vision in a real world setting - the emerging relationship between the river basin management planning (RBMP) and development planning regimes in Scotland. This relationship fits comfortabl…

The common practices for planning and management of Water Resources Systems (WSSs) are challenged in the last decades by global climate change processes which are observed around the world in increasing frequencies. Climate change is manifested by climate variability, temperatur…

After 32 years of centralized rule under President Soeharto (1966-1998), Indonesia joined the ranks of decentralized nations in 1999 in what is popularly known as the "big bang" approach to decentralization. A broad range of powers were devolved to district and city governments …

To address the problem of water scarcity and to achieve food self-sufficiency, huge efforts and massive irrigation developments have been made in the last twenty-five years by the Ethiopian Government. However, the performance of many small-scale irrigation (SSI) schemes is stil…

Numerous dams have been built across the globe. However, sedimentation and pollutants from upstream have caused some dams to provide reduced economic benefits. Furthermore, the downstream externalities generated by a dam itself, though critical, have not received adequate attent…