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Tailor-Made Information in Transboundary Water Management. Jos G. Timmerman International Water Assessment Centre (IWAC) Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA). Outline. What is tailor-made information? How to produce tailor-made information?
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Tailor-Made Information in Transboundary Water Management Jos G. Timmerman International Water Assessment Centre (IWAC) Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA)
Outline • What is tailor-made information? • How to produce tailor-made information? • Specification of information needs: how? • Function-issue table: explanation and examples • DPSIR: explanation and examples • Examples from River pilots UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
What is tailor-made information? • Tailor-made information is information that is effective: • the information product is tailored to the questions, • and efficient: • the information is provided at a reasonable and affordable price (Adriaanse 1997) UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
How to produce tailor-made information? UNECE International Water Assessment Centre Water management Information needs Information utilisation Information strategy Data analysis Data collection
Specification of information needs: how? • Water management analysis • Policy / water management objectives • Legal obligations • Inventory of water resources use / land use • Function-issue table • Cause-effect relationship for each function-issue combination • Define DPSIR indicators • Define parameters for each indicator UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Function-issue table: explanation and examples UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Cause-effect relationship UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Driving forces UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Driving forces UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Driving forces UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Pressure UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
State UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Impact UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Impact UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Response UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Responses Driving forces Pressures Impact State Responses UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Some examples from River pilots UNECE guidelines on monitoring and assessment of transboundary rivers UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Defining indicators UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Indicators -> parameters UNECE International Water Assessment Centre
Parameters UNECE International Water Assessment Centre