Description
River Basin Restoration and Management is the result of two workshops that took place at the 4th IWA World Water Congress: The Restoration of Degraded River Basins and River Basin Management Using Machine Learning. The Restoration of Degraded River Basins set out to share experience in the institutional, policy, and public participation elements of restoration programmes, the 'soft' issues surrounding restoration of a degraded river basin and the development of the river basin plan. The resulting papers include a number of case studies from a variety of river basins in Israel, South Africa, United Kingdom, Australia and Central Europe. The River Basin Management Using Machine Learning workshop highlighted and compared the two different approaches to watershed management: the physically based modelling approach relying on the system physics versus the data driven modelling approach based on exploring the system 'data behaviour'. The workshop was motivated by the recent rapid advance in information processing systems. These have pushed the hydrological research community to explore the possibilities of using intelligent systems aimed at automatically-evolving models of natural phenomena. This is the discipline of machine learning (ML), the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience.
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Maintenance, River Operation and Monitoring.
The Role of the Project in Establishing Real Cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians and Solving Ecological Problems that Know No Geo-Political Borders.
The Project's Role in the Change of Attitude to Rivers in Israel and Within the River Basin.
Real Public Participation.
Openness, Accountability, and Regular Reporting of Achievements.
Budget and Effectiveness of Use at Available Resources.
Budget and Effectiveness of Use at Available Resources.
An Organisational and Institutional Entity Devoted to the Restoration Management of a Degraded River Basin.
A Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Approach.
The Development of a Catchment Management Agency for the Breede River, Western Cape, South Africa
Requirements for a viable Breede River CMA
Institutional and technical viability
Implementation plan for CMA establishment
Internal Strategic Perspective (ISP)
Mersey Basin Campaign: partnership approach to river basin management
Background to the creation of Mersey Basin Campaign
The objectives of Mersey Basin Campaign
The location of Mersey Basin Campaign
THE EMERGENCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP
GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND DECISION-MAKING
The organisational structure of the Mersey Basin Campaign
The decision makers and the Campaign managers
BUILDING TRUST AND DEVELOPING A LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIP
How do we take forward decisions and put our actions into practice?
CHALLENGES OF WORKING IN PARTNERSHIPS
Measuring success: what are the lessons learnt from partnership working?
What are the critical success factors?
Development of a Daunbe River Basin Management Plan in line with the EU WFD
International relationships to ensure coordination
Development of The Danube River Basin Management Plan
Part B – National reports
Restoration of the Hawkesbury-Nepean river system, NSW, Australia
Sydney Water Supply System
Sydney Catchment Authority
Reform of the Water Agencies
Hawkesbury-Nepean River Management Forum
Existing Water Supply System
Watershed management - a physically based approach v. data driven modelling
PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING
COMPARISON and CONCLUSIONS
Fuzzy Method of Assessing Sustainability in Stormwater Planning
A framework for sustainable stormwater management
Linguistics and membership functions
Sustainability assessment using the fuzzy rule-based system
AGNPS and SWAT Model Calibration for Hydrologic Modelling of an Ecuadorian River Basin
Suspended Sediment Calibration
Suspended Sediment Calibration
Simulation of Flood Flow over Bangkok Flood Plain by using an Artificial Neural Network
Description of Eastern Bangkok flood plain area
Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
Model training and testing
Model input and architecture
Simulation results of ANN and discussions
Model performance evaluation
The Relation between Nutrient Management in the Danube Basin and Eutrophication Problems in Receiving Black Sea Coastal Water
Basic Characteristics of Danube River Basin
Nutrients: a challenge for trans-boundary management
Analysis of the water quality situation in Danube catchment
Possibilities for future nutrient management
A Data-Driven Model for Flow and Contaminants Runoff Predictions in Watersheds
River Basin Restoration and Management
( Water and Environmental Management Series (WEMS) )
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