TY - BOOK ID - 134239163 TI - Application of the Systems Approach to the Management of Complex Water Systems PY - 2020 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - History of engineering & technology KW - system dynamics KW - system analysis KW - complex water system KW - uncertainty assessment KW - climate change KW - regional climate models KW - averaging procedures KW - HEC-HMS KW - Lim river KW - Lim water systems KW - n/a KW - artificial recharge KW - groundwater KW - treated wastewater KW - freshwater resources KW - water footprint KW - water management KW - wine production KW - winemaking sector KW - Italy KW - SuDS KW - decision-making KW - Soft Systems KW - ANP KW - modelling KW - stakeholder KW - systems analyses KW - water resources KW - planning KW - management KW - implementation KW - political processes KW - innovation KW - impact KW - multi-purpose dam KW - water resources systems KW - performance-based engineering KW - simulation KW - resilience KW - disaster KW - risk KW - perception KW - community KW - Canada KW - integrated urban watershed management KW - group decision-support system KW - risk analysis KW - group consensus KW - Kashafroud watershed KW - water policy KW - water portfolio planning KW - water resources management KW - systems assessment KW - adaptive capacity KW - coupled human–natural systems KW - integrated water resources management KW - sociohydrology KW - modeling perspectives KW - agent-based modeling KW - differential equations KW - uncertainty KW - artificial intelligence KW - machine learning KW - water resource modelling KW - multiobjective optimisation KW - river abstraction KW - reservoir operation KW - stochastic dynamic programming KW - fuzzy optimization KW - reservoir-river system KW - water quantity-quality management KW - socio-hydrology KW - hydro-sociology KW - human-water systems KW - human-nature systems KW - social-ecological systems KW - CHANS KW - SES KW - socio-hydrologic modeling KW - IWRM KW - hydrology KW - multireservoir operations KW - optimization KW - multi-agent reinforcement learning KW - aggregation–decomposition KW - neural networks KW - systems KW - complexity KW - coupled human-natural systems KW - aggregation-decomposition UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134239163 AB - During the past five decades, we have witnessed a tremendous evolution in water resource system management. Three characteristics of this evolution are of particular note: First, the application of the systems approach to complex water management problems has been established as one of the most important advances in the field of water resource management. Second, the past five decades have brought a remarkable transformation of attitude in the water resource management community towards environmental concerns and action to address these concerns. Third, applying the principles of sustainability to water resource decision-making requires major changes in the objectives on which decisions are based, and an understanding of the complicated inter-relationships between existing ecological, economic, and social factors. The Special Issue includes 15 contributions that offer insights into contemporary problems, approaches, and issues related to the management of complex water resources systems. It will be presumptuous to say that these 15 contributions characterize the success or failure of the systems approach to support water resources decision-making. However, these contributions offer interesting lessons from current experiences and highlight possible future work. ER -