IV. Readings*

Brief descriptions and references are provided in section III-‘Resource Material in a Nutshell’



Section 1 Ecosystem based Approaches to Water Resources Management



1.1 Inland Water Systems
Author: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Link: http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.289.aspx.pdf
1.2 A Six-Step Framework for Ecologically Sustainable Water Management
Authors: Ruth Mathews

Link: http://www.ucowr.org/updates/131/12_matthews.pdf
1.3 Ecosystem-Based Management: Markers for Assessing Progress
Authors: Stephen Bloye Olsen, Niels Ipsen and Martin Adriaans

Link: http://www.unep.org/pdf/GPA/Ecosystem_based_Management_Markers_for_Assessing
_Progress.pdf
1.4 Relevance of Ecosystems in Integrated Water Resources Management
Author: E.J.James

Link: http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/water_and_ecosystem/lecture%20notes/1.4.Relevance%
20of%20Ecosystems%20in%20Integrated%20Water%20Resources%20Management_
James%20E%20J.pdf
1.5 Incorporating Ecosystem Perspective in River Basin Planning Illustrated by Case Studies on Wetland Ecosystems
Author: E.J.James

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/water_and_ecosystem/lecture%20notes/1.5.Incorporating
%20Ecosystem%20perspective%20in%20River%20Basin%20Planning_James%20E%20J.pdf
1.6 Water Management and Ecosystems: Living with Change
Author: GWP (Global Water Partnership) Technical Committee (TEC)

Link:  http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/background/tec_9_english.pdf
1.7 Vision for Water and Nature: A World Strategy For Conservation And Sustainable Management of Water Resources in The 21st Century
Author: IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)- the World Conservation Union

Link: http://www.rivernet.org/general/docs/VisionWaterNature.pdf
1.8 Ecosystem Approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): A Review of Transboundary River Basins
Authors: Dimple Roy, Jane Barr and Henry David Venema

Link: http://iwlearn.net/publications/ll/ecosystem-approaches-in-integrated-water-resources-
management-iwrm-a-review-of-transboundary-river-basins
1.9 Integrated Management of Chilika Lagoon, India, Case #268
Authors: Ajit Pattnaik and L.C. Trisal

Link: http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/cases/en/cs%20268%20india.pdf
1.10 Conservation and Management of Bhoj Wetlands, India #329
Author: Aniruddhe Mukerjee

Link: http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/cases/en/cs_329%20_full_india_final.pdf
1.11 Flowing Forward: Freshwater Ecosystem Adaptation to Climate Change in Water Resources Management and Biodiversity Conservation
Authors: Tom Le Quesne, John H. Matthews, Constantin Von der Heyden, A.J. Wickel, Rob Wilby, Joerg Hartmann, Guy Pegram, Elizabeth Kistin, Geoffrey Blate, Glauco Kimura de Freitas, Eliot Levine, Carla Guthrie, Catherine McSweeney and Nikolai Sindorf

Link: http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/Publications/WWFBinaryitem17968.pdf


Section 2. Environmental Flow and Ecosystem Services



2.1 Securing Water for Ecosystems and Human Well-being: The Importance of Environmental Flows

Authors: Anna Forslund, Birgitta Malm Renöfält, Stefano Barchiesi, Katharine Cross, Sarah Davidson, Tracy Farrell, Louise Korsgaard, Karin Krchnak, Michael McClain, Karen Meijer and Mark Smith

Link: http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Reports/Report24_E-Flows-low-res.pdf

2.2 Meeting Ecological and Societal Needs For Freshwater

Authors: Baron, Jill S, N. Leroy Poff, Paul L. Angermeier, Clifford N. Dahm, Peter H. Gleick, Nelson G. Hairston, Jr, Robert B. Jackson, Carol A. Johnston, Brian D. Richter and Alan D. Steinman

Link: http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson/ea02.pdf

2.3 Ecologically Sustainable Water Management: Managing River Flows for Ecological Integrity

Authors: Brian D. Richter, Ruth Mathews, David L. Harrison and Robert Wigington

Link: http://www.ag.auburn.edu/auxiliary/alcfwru/fisheries/fish7380/richter_paper.pdf

2.4 How Much Water Does a River Need?

Authors: Brian D. Richter, Jeffrey V. Baumgartner, Robert Wigington and David P. Braun

Link: http://www.eflownet.org/downloads/documents/Richter&al1997.pdf

2.5 An Assessment of Environmental Flow Requirements of Indian River Basins

Authors: V. Smakhtin and M. Anputhas

Link: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/publications/IWMI_Research_Reports/PDF/PUB107/RR107.pdf

2.6 Environmental Flows in River Basins: A Case Study of River Bhadra

Authors: K. Lenin Babu and B. K. Harish Kumara

Link: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Environmental%20flows%20in%20river
%20basins.pdf


Section 3. Applied Hydro-ecology & Eco-Hydrology and Integrated Water Resources Management



3.1 Applied Hydro-Ecological Science for the Twenty-First Century

Authors: M.J. Dunbar and M.C. Acreman

Link: http://iahs.info/redbooks/a266/iahs_266_0001.pdf

3.2 Ecohydrology and Hydroecology: A ‘New Paradigm’?

Authors: David M. Hannah, Paul J. Wood and Jonathan P. Sadler

Link: http://ocw.um.es/ciencias/ecologia/ejercicios-proyectos-y-casos1/Hannah%20et%20al
%202004.pdf

3.3 The Role of Hydro-Ecological Models in the Development of Sustainable Water Resources

Authors: Alan Gustard and Craig R. N. Elliott

Link: http://iahs.info/redbooks/a240/iahs_240_0407.pdf

3.4 A Spatial Assessment of Hydrologic Alteration within a River Network

Authors: Brian D. Richter, Jeffrey V. Baumgartner, David P. Braun and Jennifer Powell

Link: http://acousticfiles.com/4LRLRms/Ashley's%20papers/Richter_1998_spatial%20hydrologic
%20alteration.pdf

3.5 A Method for Assessing Hydrologic Alteration within Ecosystems

Authors: Brian D. Richter, Jeffrey V. Baumgartner, Jennifer Powell, David P. Braun

Link: http://www.tufts.edu/water/pdf/iha_meth.pdf

3.6 Impact of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems: A Global-Scale Analysis of Ecologically Relevant River Flow Alterations

Authors: P Doll and J. Zhang

Link: http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/14/783/2010/hess-14-783-2010.pdf

3.7 Integrated Watershed Management- Ecohydrology & Phytotechnology

Authors: Maciej Zalewski, Iwona Wagner-Lotkowska and Richard D. Robarts

Link: http://www.unep.or.jp/ietc/publications/Water_Sanitation/integrated_watershed_mgmt_
manual/index.asp


Section 4.Water Pollution and Ecosystem Monitoring



4.1 Impacts of Water Use on Water Systems and the Environment

Authors: Björklund, Gunilla, Jake Burke, Stephen Foster, Walter Rast, Domitille Vallée and Wim van der Hoek

Link: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001819/181993e.pdf#page=152

4.2 Impact of Agricultural and Industrial Pollution on Ecosystem and Water Quality

Author: R.C.Trivedi

Link: http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/water_and_ecosystem/lecture%20notes/Trivedi-Impact.pdf

4.3 The Effects of Industrial Pollution on Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

Author: Thomas Chiramba and Peter Manyara

Link: http://www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Water_Front_Articles/2010/The_Effects_of_
Industrial_Pollution_on_Ecosystems_and_Human_Well-Being.pdf

4.4 Introduction to Agricultural Water Pollution

Author: Edwin D Ongley

Link: http://www.fao.org/docrep/w2598e/w2598e04.htm

4.5 Agriculture, Water, and Ecosystems: Avoiding the Costs of Going too Far

Authors: Malin Falkenmark, C. Max FinlaysonLine, J. Gordon, : Elena M. Bennett, Tabeth Matiza Chiuta, David Coates, Nilanjan Ghosh, M. Gopalakrishnan, Rudolf S. de Groot, Gunnar Jacks, Eloise Kendy, Lekan Oyebande, Michael Moore, Garry D. Peterson, Jorge Mora Portuguez, Kemi Seesink, Rebecca Tharme, and Robert Wasson

Link: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/assessment/water%20for%20food%20water%20for%20
life/chapters/chapter%206%20ecosystems.pdf

4.6 Sri Lanka’s Environmental Challenges

Author: Ram Alagan

Link: http://www.gvglobalvision.org/publications/Sri%20Lanka%92s_Environmental_Challenges.pdf

4.7 Assessment of Eco-environment Quality and Monitoring & Maintenance of Ecosystems

Author: R.C.Trivedi

Link: http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/water_and_ecosystem/lecture%20notes/Trivedi-Assessment.pdf

4.8 Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health

Authors: Geneviève M Carr and James P. Neary

Link:  http://www.gemswater.org/digital_atlas/digital_atlas.pdf

4.9 Water Pollution Control - A Guide to the Use of Water Quality Management Principles

Authors: Richard Helmer and Ivanildo Hespanhol

Link:  http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resourcesquality/watpolcontrol.pdf

4.10 Water Quality Monitoring in India- Achievements and Constraints

Author: R.M. Bhardwaj

Link:  http://unstats.un.org/unsd/environment/envpdf/pap_wasess5a2india.pdf


Section 5. Ecological Economics for Water Resources Management



5.1. Water Resources Sustainability: An Ecological Economics Perspective

Author: Christopher Lant

Link: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=jcwre&sei-redir=
1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.in%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Decological
%2520economics%2520and%2520water%2520resources%2520management%26source%3Dweb
%26cd%3D5%26ved%3D0CEsQFjAE%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fopensiuc.lib.siu.edu
%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1095%2526context%253Djcwre%26ei%3D
BnzXTsieMcPQrQetuu3JDQ%26usg%3DAFQjCNERkuT7lfj0DvoNZq64NwHPVVzboQ#search=%22
ecological%20economics%20water%20resources%20management%22

5.2 The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Author: TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity)

Link: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/biodiversity/economics/pdf/teeb_report.pdf

5.3 Water Ecosystem Services and Poverty Under Climate Change: Key Issues and Research Priorities

Authors: James Mayers, Charles Batchelor, Ivan Bond, Rob Hope, Elaine Morrison and Breana Wheeler

Link:  http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/13549IIED.pdf

5.4 Environmental Valuation: A Worldwide Compendium of Case Studies

Authors: Hussein Abaza and Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken

Link: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/09_compendium_of_case_studies_introduction.pdf

5.5 Environmental Valuation: Challenges and Practices

Author: John A Dixon

Link: http://www.rff.org/Documents/08_Tropics_Conference/Tropics_
Conference_Papers/Tropics_Conference_Dixon_Environmenal_Valuation.pdf

5.6 Environment Valuation, Project Appraisal and Political Consensus in the Third World

Author: Alister McFarquhar

Link: http://www-pam.usc.edu/volume4/v4i1a3print.html

5.7 Economic Tools for Valuing Freshwater and Estuarine Ecosystem Services

Author: Randall Kramer

Link: http://iwlearn.net/abt_iwlearn/events/ouagadougou/readingfiles/dukeuniversity-valuing-
freshwater-estuarine-services.pdf

5.8 The Economic Value of Wetland Services: A Meta-Analysis

Authors:Richard T Woodward and Yong-Suhk Wui

Link: http://www.unepscs.org/Economic_Valuation_Training_Materials/06%20Readings
%20on%20Economic%20Valuation%20of%20Coastal%20Habitats/23-Economic-Value-Wetland-Services.pdf

5.9 Water Pollution and Economic Growth: An Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis at the Watershed and State Level

Authors:Anamika Barua and Klaus Hubacek

Link: http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~leckh/Barua%20and%20Hubacek%20EKC%20final%20
version%20Preprint.pdf


Section 6. Water-Agriculture-Food-Ecosystem linkages



6.1 Ecosystems for Water and Food Security

Authors: Sithara Atapattu, Jennie Barron, Prem Bindraban, Stuart W. Bunting, David Coates, Katrien Descheemaeker, Nishadi Eriyagama, Max Finlayson, Line Gordon, Elizabeth Khaka, Gareth James Lloyd, Fergus Sinclair, Elaine Solowey, Luke Sanford, David Stentiford and Lamourdia Thiombiano

Link: http://www.unep.org/pdf/depi-ecosystems-food-secur.pdf

6.2 The New Blue and Green Water Paradigm: Breaking New Ground for Water Resources Planning and Management

Authors: M Falkenmark and J. Rockström

Link: https://wiki.umn.edu/pub/Water_Sustainability/ReferencesAttached/Falkenmark_
and_Rockstrom.pdf

6.3 Agricultural Green and Blue Water Consumption and its Influence on the Global Water System

Authors: Rost, Stefanie, Dieter Gerten, Alberte Bondeau, Wolfgang Lucht, Janine Rohwer and Sibyll Schaphoff

Link: http://www.gwsp.org/fileadmin/downloads/2007WR006331.pdf

6.4 Virtual Water Trade: A Realistic Concept for Resolving the Water Crisis?

Authors: Lena Horlemann and Susanne Neubert

Link: http://www.die-gdi.de/CMS-Homepage/openwebcms3.nsf/(ynDK_contentByKey)/
ENTR-7BMEGX/$FILE/Studies%2025.pdf

6.5 Virtual Water in Food Production and Global Trade Review of Methodological Issues and Preliminary Results

Authors: Daniel Zimmer and Daniel Renault

Link: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/docs/VirtualWater_article_DZDR.pdf


Section 7. Ecosystem Based Management and Stakeholder
Participation



7.1 The Sharing of Water between Society and Ecosystems: From Conflict to Catchment-Based Co-Management

Authors: J. S Wallace, M. C. Acreman and C. A. Sullivan

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693290/pdf/14728795.pdf

7.2 Unpacking “Participation” in the Adaptive Management of Social–Ecological Systems: A Critical Review

Authors: Lindsay C. Stringer, Andrew J. Dougill, Evan Fraser, Klaus Hubacek, Christina Prell and Mark S. Reed

Link: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art39/

7.3 Climate Change, Adaptation and Adaptive Governance in Water Sector in South Asia

Author: Monirul Mirza

Link: http://www.2007amsterdamconference.org/Downloads/AC2007_Mirza.pdf

7.4 Participatory Skills-Handbook 7

Author: Ramsar Convention Secretariat

Link: http://www.ramsar.org/pdf/lib/hbk4-07.pdf

7.5 The Role of NGOs and Civil Society in Global Environmental Governance

Authors: Barbara Gemmill and Abimbola Bamidele-Izu

Link: http://environment.research.yale.edu/documents/downloads/a-g/gemmill.pdf

7.6 Scaling up Community-based Co-Management of Wetlands and Fisheries in Bangladesh

Author: Paul Thompson

Link: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADJ856.pdf

7.7 Natural Resource and Watershed Management in South Asia: A Comparative Evaluation with Special References to Nepal

Author: Krishna R. Tiwari, Roshan M. Bajracharya and Bishal K. Sitaula

Link: http://www.moac.gov.np/publications/journal/10tiwari_etal.pdf

7.8 India: A Campaign for Conservation of Water Bodies by Water User Groups (#246)

Author: Aniruddhe Mukerjee

Link: http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/cases/en/cs%20246%20india.pdf

7.9 Protected Areas in Pakistan: Management and Issues

Author: Zafar Iqbal Khan

Link: www.sljol.info/index.php/JNSFSL/article/download/3036/2428

7.10 Gender and Stakeholder Participation (in Ecosystem Management)

Author: Chanda Gurung Goodrich

Link:  http://www.saciwaters.org/CB/water_and_ecosystem/lecture%20notes
/new%20Notes_on_Gender_and_participation.pdf

7.11 Women and Water Management: An Integrated Approach

Author: UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)

Link: http://www.unep.org/pdf/women/ChapterFive.pdf

7.12 Role of Mountain Women in Environment Governance in India

Author: Rani Tyagi

Link: http://www.ecoinsee.org/fbconf/Sub%20Theme%20F/rani_tyagi.pdf


* The lecture notes included in the manual / compendium were provided by the respective resource persons for the staff training programmes conducted as part of the CB Project. However, the CB Project/ SaciWATERs is not responsible in any way for the content of these lecture notes.