New Advances in Integrated River Basin Management

Dear Colleagues,

In many regions of the world, rivers and water resources are under pressure, and even higher burdens are expected in the future due to effects such as global warming and land-use intensification. Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) is an approach which is being increasingly promoted, or even legally required, as a key concept to incorporate human and natural factors and processes at the catchment scale.

River basins are influenced by multiple factors which affect the ecological and socio-hydrological systems. These systems operate on different spatial and temporal scales, often with high dynamics. Manifold stakeholders on different levels, institutions or transboundary settings have to be considered. Thus, fundamental challenges in IRBM need appropriate methods in order to identify key system elements, feedbacks and suitable measures and models, to identify synergies and conflicts with neighboring concerns, to coordinate and implement measures, and finally to set up a monitoring system.

This Special Issue addresses processes and innovative concepts and methods for IRBM and human–water research from a global or regional perspective. It brings together researchers from different disciplines contributing to the discourse of theoretical concepts, empirical studies and/or case studies that are of relevance in IRBM, and other relevant contributions from the field.

Prof. Dr. Mariele Evers
Guest Editor

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