Supporting decisions in water management by exploring information and capacity gaps: experiences from an IWRM study in the Western Bug River Basin, Ukraine

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4771-4786

  Leidel, Marco ^a   Hagemann, Nina ^b   Seegert, Jörg ^a   Weigelt, Corinna ^c   Zakorchevna, Natalia ^d   Blumensaat, Frank ^a,e  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c DREBERIS GmbH Strategy Consultants of Dresden   (Germany)

^d Environmental Protection of International River Basins Project   (Ukraine)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capacity and information gap; Capacity assessment; Model based systems analysis; Ukraine; Water management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CAPACITY ASSESSMENT; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION GAP; INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; MODEL-BASED SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; UKRAINE;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BUG BASIN; UKRAINE;

EID: 84912129931     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3863-8     Document Type: Article

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