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3. An Operational Approach for Watershed Investments

Authors : Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti

Published in: Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This chapter focuses on Watershed Investments for securing water for cities. It starts with a brief account of the application of ecosystem services for decision-making and a theoretical background of boundary work. Accordingly, it proposes an operational approach developed for designing and assessing impact of watershed iInvestments to secure water for cities. The developed approach distinguishes between a “strategic” and a “technical” component. The strategic component identifies as key inputs of the process of Watershed Investment design and assessment, the definition of objectives and visioning of feasible and desirable scenarios by stakeholders. The technical component applies spatially explicit modelling to design Watershed Investments, hence to model the impacts on selected ecosystem services. The chapter concludes highlighting the potential of the approach to contribute to adaptive management in the urban water sector, by addressing the challenges of linking diverse stakeholders and knowledge system across management levels and institutional boundaries.

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Title: An Operational Approach for Watershed Investments
Authors: Blal Adem Esmail
Davide Geneletti
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-45665-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-45666-5

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45666-5_3

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