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Integrated Water Resources Management: STRIVER Efforts to Assess the Current Status and Future Possibilities in Four River Basins

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The contemporary concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) was primarily conceived for the purpose of promoting sustainable water management. There are many elements included in modern IWRM perceptions, e.g., natural resource utilization planning combined with at strategy to balance between social, economic and environmental objectives based on an overall sustainability concept. However, the concept behind IWRM is not new. The historical development of the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) can be found in Rahaman and Varis (2005).

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Acknowledgements

STRIVER: Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM – An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins (2006–2009) is a project supported by the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) under SUSTDEV-2005-3.II.3.6: Twinning European/third countries river basins. Contract number: 037141.

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  1. Bioforsk – Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway

    Per Stålnacke, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu & Johannes Deelstra

  2. Linköpings University, Linköping, Sweden

    Geoffrey D. Gooch

  3. IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (under the auspices of UNESCO), University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

    Geoffrey D. Gooch & Alistair Rieu-Clarke

  4. The Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Ingrid Nesheim

  5. NIVA – Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway

    Line J. Barkved, Haakon Thaulow & Dag Berge

  6. Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy

    Bruna Grizzetti

  7. Water Research Institute – National Research Council, Bari, Italy

    Antonio Lo Porto

  8. Institute of Geography, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Dang Kim Nhung

  9. Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India

    S. Manasi

  10. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Zaragoza, Spain

    Santiago Beguería Portugués

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Stålnacke, P. et al. (2011). Integrated Water Resources Management: STRIVER Efforts to Assess the Current Status and Future Possibilities in Four River Basins. In: Jaeger, C., Tàbara, J., Jaeger, J. (eds) European Research on Sustainable Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19202-9_11

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