Water Resources Management Models for Policy Assessment

<p>This book is a compilation of original research articles that apply a variety of techniques to identify and evaluate water resource management policies. These papers cover a wide range of topics and methodologies applied across the world from a local to a continental scope. They illustrate open challenges in water resource management such as the quantitative assessment of policy impacts trade-off analyses understanding the water-energy-food-environment nexus collaborative model development stakeholder engagement formalizing social interactions or improving the theoretical understanding of complex adaptive systems. Therefore this book is a representation of research areas that have emerged from the origins of water resource systems analysis seeking to improve the way in which water policy is formulated and implemented.</p>