Towards a User Oriented Generic Tool for River Basin Management: the Example of the Elbe DSS in Germany
Over the last decades river basin management has become increasingly complex. Increasing demands of society regarding use and protection of water bodies, new views and strategies towards (the making of) policy for river basin management call for a multidisciplinary approach for river basin management. Since methodologies and tools for such a multidisciplinary approach are not readily available, the German Federal Institute of Hydrology in the year 2000 initiated the project Towards a generic tool for river basin management, focused on the development of an integrated decision support system for the Elbe rive catchment in Germany. The ultimate goal of the project was to develop a generic tool, which helps water managers to formulate policy for river basin management and to take appropriate measures to realize policy objectives. The software realization of such a tool is called a Decision Support System (DSS) or more specific for the domain at hand: Integrated River Basin Management Decision Support System (IRBM-DSS). In this paper we focus on two main questions: (1) What is a Generic Integrated River Basin Management Decision Support System? (2) What lessons can be learned from the example of the IRBM-DSS for the Elbe river in Germany?
generic tool IRBM-DSS elbe river catchment
Rob Hermans Bernhard Hahn
Research Institute for Knowledge Systems BV, P. O. AL Maastricht, The Netherlands
国际会议
山东东营
英文
93-99
2007-10-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）