Socio-technical instruments in the field of Integrated Water Resources Management
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As  defined  by  the  Global  Water  Partnership  (GWP)  Integrated  Water  Resources  Management  refers  to  the  coordi-nated development and management of water, land and related resources for optimising economic and social welfare without  compromising  the  sustainability  of  vital  environmental  systems.  It  is  obvious  that  this  is  a  complex  issue  where we need new approaches to the assessment, development and management. To assist processes in IWRM so-cio-technical  tools  as  for  instance  Decision  Support  Systems  (DSS)  can  be  very  helpful.  A  DSS  for  IWRM  can  be  understood  as  a  socio-technical  instrument  which  is  a  machine,  a  tool  and  a  medium  which  promotes  better  under-standing  and  handling  of  such  complex  system  as  river  basins  in  a  coherent  and  transparent  management  process  with mutual learning.
| Original language | English | 
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| Title of host publication | Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools : EnviroInfo 2009 ; 23rd International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection ; proceedings of the 23rd International Conference Environmental Informatics - Informatics for environmental protection, sustainable development and risk management, September 09 - 11, 2009, HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany | 
| Editors | Volker Wohlgemuth, Bernd Page, Kristina Voigt | 
| Number of pages | 8 | 
| Volume | Sessions | 
| Publisher | Shaker Verlag | 
| Publication date | 2009 | 
| Pages | 299-304 | 
| ISBN (print) | 9783832283971 | 
| Publication status | Published - 2009 | 
| Event | 23rd International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection - 2009 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 09.09.2009 → 11.09.2009 Conference number: 23 https://dblp.org/db/conf/enviroinfo/enviroinfo2009-1.html | 
- Environmental planning - Socio-technical instruments
