Integrated Water Resources Management in the Aral Sea Basin

摘要

In this article Joop de Schutter, Head Department for Water Engineering of UNESCO- IHE and Prof. Victor Dukhovny, director of the Scientific Information Centre of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC - ICWC) of the Aral Sea Basin describe some results of their work on the development of concepts and tools for integrated river basin management in Central Asia. Key projects that were implemented over the past years include integrated river basin management modelling (the Aral Sea Basin Management Model), integrated hydrological and socio - economic modelling and development of a decision support system for wetlands management (NATO Science for Peace research project SfP 974357). The article does signal opportunities and draw parallels to the development of concepts and tools for integrated water resources management in river basins in general and discusses the development of an integrated model and decision support system for wetlands management in the Amudarya Delta.