TailorMade Information in Transboundary Water Management

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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)

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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

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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)

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How to produce tailor-made information?
Water management
Information utilisation
Information needs
Information strategy
Data analysis
Data collection
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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

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Function-issue table explanation and examples
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Cause-effect relationship
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Driving forces
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Driving forces
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Driving forces
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Pressure
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State
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Impact
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Impact
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Response
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Responses
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Some examples from River pilots

• UNECE guidelines on monitoring and assessment of
  transboundary rivers

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Defining indicators
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Indicators -gt parameters
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Parameters