Integrated Assessment for Water Framework Directive Implementation: Data, Economic and Human Dimension

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Implementing the comprehensive Water Framework Directive requires a thorough planning process that consists of several consecutive steps. The least one can say is that it is a challenging task which needs appropriate ICT tools that are able to cope with the complexity of the water system and this planning process. Integrated assessment, participatory processes and the science-policy interface are one of the newer elements in this overall implementation process that have developed greatly thanks to the WFD. Economic methods, models and instruments are integrative to the WFD implementation as well, with such concepts as cost recovery of water resources being central to debate with stakeholders. Economic valuation of natural resources (willingness-to-pay, willingness-to-accept, …) should get sufficient attention and the human dimension (perception, needs, wants, values and behaviours) should be incorporated in the modelling frameworks for decision-making. In the same line there is also a human dimension to the use of models: how do non-modellers, such as managers, policy-makers, other stakeholders feel about models and their use in their day-to-day activities. And finally, this volume deals with the large issue of data: its quality, availability and, not to forget, accessibility. And can we use data both for monitoring purposes (surveillance, operational and investigative in the WFD context) and for modelling. Is there a synergy to be found?

These tasks, the underlying concepts, methods, tools and procedures are the subject of this volume.

The other three volumes in the Water Framework Directive Series are:
Water Framework Directive: Model supported Implementation - A Water Manager’s Guide edited by Fred Hattermann and Zbigniew W Kundzewicz
Modelling Aspects of Water Framework Directive Implementation - Volume 1 edited by Prof. Peter A. Vanrolleghem
Decision Support for WFD implementation - Volume 3, edited by Peter A. Vanrolleghem
 

• Improving integrated assessment in model-supported river basin management, Ilke Borowski, Caroline van Bers, Claudia Pahl-Wostl
• Data availability and accessibility in view of model-based water management, Jens Christian Refsgaard, Lisbeth Flindt Jørgensen and Anker Lajer Højberg
• Good practise in joint use of monitoring and modeling, Anker Lajer Højberg, Jens Christian Refsgaard, Lisbeth Flindt Jørgensen, Frans van Geer, István Zsuffa
• Economic methods, models and instruments for the Water Framework Directive, Roy Brouwer, David N. Barton and Frans Oosterhuis
• Understanding the role of perception and valuation in the development and use of models for water management, Pieter Bots, Geoffrey Gooch, Brian S. McIntosh, Claudia Pahl-Wostl