ENVS195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Great Lakes Areas Of Concern, Drainage Basin, Global Water Partnership
24 Oct 2015
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More food, less cost, avoid flooding, enhance water quality. Look at the larger system and interactions within them: characteristics. Includes the entire system not just parts of it, focuses on interrealtionships among the elements. Uses broad definition of environments"-natural, physical, economic, social and cultural: definition of iwrm. Water is a system which interacts with other natural and social ecosystems. Managers frequently have to deal with surface and groundwater, plus quantity and quality, requiring expertise about and attention to all. Decisions and activities in upper parts of catchments have implications for downstream areas. Needs of humans and other species require attention. An integrated approach has to be taken to water, land use and ecosystems. : criticisms of iwrm. No generally accepted definition for iwrm, making it difficult to assess. If an ecosystem or holistic approach is to be taken, how many other systems beyond water need to be considered (ex.
