When dealing with water management, different issues should be combined: water demand, water quality, irrigation and food production, ecosystem preservation, cost minimization, technological options, legislative frameworks, and social impact.
Integrated Water Management (IWM) deals with the planning and management of water resources by integrating the different issues involved, including ecological, economic, technical legislative, and transboundary. This book offers a general framework for IWM. The result of the work of international experts in different disciplines and institutions, the book includes both the different environmental problems that affect the very different ecosystems and the main methodologies able to face the problem of IWM. Coverage is divided in three parts: concepts and approaches of IWM, case studies, and reports of the working groups.
