Organisers
D.N. Lerner, Catchment Science Centre, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
C. W. Anderson, Catchment Science Centre, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
B. Harris, Catchment Science Centre, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
A. Holzkaemper, Catchment Science Centre, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
B. Surridge, Catchment Science Centre, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, UK
Topics
- Which modelling approaches are available to support ICM? How do they integrate across processes, space and time? What are their data needs? How can we validate?
- Comparing different techniques – how can we match the right technique with the right problem?
- The link between plan production and implementation – effective implementation and delivery are essential – what are the issues for effective implementation?
- Acceptance – the challenges of the transition from prototype model to real life application
Description
Recently, several European Union Directives (e.g. the Water Framework Directive, the Floods Directive, and the proposed Soil Thematic Strategy) have called for Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) to be put into practice, identifying whole-catchment modeling as a key supporting element. Catchments are physically-defined spatial units, drained by a river and its tributaries. Multiple environmental processes operate within any given catchment (e.g. surface and subsurface water flow, biogeochemical transformations, biological interactions, etc.), and these processes are of concern for environmental management. However, catchments are also the focus for the domestic, working and recreational lives of their population, and as such are the loci for complex social and economic interactions. The fundamental challenge that ICM presents to decision makers is how to balance competing and often conflicting physical, chemical, biological, social and economic demands that are placed on catchments. Modelling of the likely outcomes of different decision scenarios may be able to support decision making, but only if multiple individual catchment processes, and also their interactions, can be accommodated using simple yet robust approaches. We believe there are clear challenges and opportunities here that the environmental modelling community can address. Substantial research effort has been directed towards understanding complex environmental problems. The current drive in the environmental arena towards catchment-scale management requires integrated analysis of the natural and social worlds, supported by integrated modelling systems. It also asks us to better integrate science and policy to understand and manage the links between natural processes and anthropogenic influences. Such challenges are often not being addressed successfully, except in a piecemeal fashion, because of the formidable challenges of comprehending and modelling the extensive interconnections between different sub-systems within catchments, such as the climate system, natural ecosystems, and socio-economic systems, although each of these systems have been usefully modelled in smaller more, isolated pieces. However it is now possible, because of recent developments in data acquisition and display, information-sharing technologies, and large-scale computing and modelling, to build computer models that cover the range of sub-systems within catchments, and the major interactions among them. In recent years, many techniques for use within catchment-scale modelling have emerged, ranging from graphical probabilistic techniques to agent based AI techniques. This aim of this session will be to present recent theoretical and applied works in the area of modelling to support ICM.
Schedule
Monday 7
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| Time
| Title
| Authors
| Place
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| 9:30 - 9:50
| 'CLUES Spatial DSS: From Farm-Scale Leaching Models to Regional Decision Support'
| S. Elliott, G. McBride, U. Shankar, A. Semandi-Davies, J. Quinn, D. Wheeler, L. Wedderburn, B. Small, A. Hewitt, R. Gibb, R. Parfitt, B. Clothier, S. Green, S. Harris and G. Rys
| A5103
|
| 9:50 - 10:10
| 'Linking Catchment Environmental Planning to On-Ground Investment: the SCaRPA DSS'
| N.F. Herron, T.W. Barrett and S.M. Cuddy
| A5103
|
| 10:10 - 10:30
| 'A consistent framework for knowledge integration to support Integrated Catchment Management'
| A. Holzkämper, B. Surridge, A. Paetzold, V. Kumar, D. N. Lerner, L. Maltby, J. Wainwright, C. W. Anderson and R. Harris
| A5103
|
| 10:30 - 10:50
| 'MoGIRE: A Model for Integrated Water Management'
| A. Reynaud and D. Leenhardt
| A5103
|
| 11:20 - 11:40
| 'Step by step calibration of an Integrated Model System for irrigation management'
| T. Arnold, T. Berger and H. Uribe
| A5103
|
| 11:40 - 12:00
| 'Development of an integrated framework for assessing the impact of urban planning on water quality'
| G. Fu, S.-T. Khu, F. di Pierro, A. Doglioni and F. Primativo
| A5103
|
| 12:00 - 12:20
| 'Representing river system behaviour in UML to enhance development of DSS'
| J. A. E. B. Janssen and Ioannis M. Dokas
| A5103
|
| 12:20 - 12:30
| 'Model development for integrated water management in the influence area of phosphate mines'
| K. Bru, A-G. Guézennec, S. Lanini, N. Graveline, K. Soulis, F. Karaouli and A. Guesmi
| A5103
|
| 12:30 - 12:40
| 'Aspects of the application of decision and information support tools in an integrated water resources management practice'
| R. Hranova
| A5103
|
| 15:00 - 15:20
| 'Integrated modelling of water and nitrate fluxes in large catchment areas – assessing the needs and efficiencies of agroenvironmental measures for selected groundwater bodies in Germany.'
| R. Kunkel, M. Eisele, B. Tetzlaff and F. Wendland
| A5103
|
| 15:20 - 15:40
| 'The Role of Groundwater Resources Models in Integrated Catchment Management'
| Farrell. R and Whiteman. M
| A5103
|
| 15:40 - 16:00
| 'Model based sediment quality management on river basin'
| B. Westrich
| A5103
|
| 16:00 - 16:20
| 'Large-scale modelling of P-inputs from point and diffuse sources in German river basins'
| B. Tetzlaff and Frank Wendland
| A5103
|
| 16:40 - 17:00
| 'A System Dynamics Model for the Assessment of Risks and Risk Mitigation Options at Catchment Scale'
| M. Finkel and U. S. McKnight
| A5103
|
| 17:00 - 17:20
| 'Multiple-criteria decision making for integrated watershed management in the Ramian watershed, Golestan, Iran'
| A. Sadoddin, V. Sheikh, R. Mostafazade and M.G. Halili
| A5103
|
| 17:20 - 17:40
| 'A Toolbox for the Identification of Parsimonious Semi-Distributed Rainfall-Runoff Models: Application to the Upper Lee Catchment'
| B. Orellana, I.G. Pechlivanidis, N. McIntyre, H.S. Wheater and T. Wagener
| A5103
|
| 17:40 - 18:00
| 'Development of matrices to build scenarios of cropping systems distribution for integrated catchment assessment. A proposition for an irrigated area in south-western France'
| L. Clavel and D. Leenhardt
| A5103
|
Tuesday 8
|
| 9:30 - 9:40
| 'Deposition and Resuspension of Sediments in Near Bank Water Zones of the River Elbe'
| S. Prohaska and B. Westrich
| A5103
|
| 9:40 - 9:50
| 'Challenges of alpine catchment management under changing climatic and anthropogenic pressures'
| C. de Jong, P. Masure and T. Barth
| A5103
|
| 9:50 - 10:00
| 'Ecosystem Stability in Integrated Catchment Management'
| P. A. Khaiter and M. G. Erechtchoukova
| A5103
|
| 10:00 - 10:50
| Open discussion on challenges of Integrated Catchment Management and reporting on presentations of session S6
| A5103
|
