Concepts and Approaches of Integrated Water Management -- Filling the Information Gap between Water Systems and Decision Makers in the Sustainable Development of a Territory -- Towards an Adaptive Approach in Planning and Management Process -- The Value of the Italian Civil Protection System in Integrated Water Management For The Mediterranean Environment -- Knowledge Discovery in Environmental Data -- NetSyMoD - An Integrated Approach for Water Resources Management -- Water Conflicts: An Unavoidable Challenge from the Transboundary to the Local Dimension -- Case Studies -- An Eco-Hydrological Project on Turkey Creek Watershed, South Carolina, U.S.A -- Integrated Transboundary Management of Lake Constance Driven by the International Commission for the Protection of Lake Constance (IGKB) -- Integrated Water Mangement in the Seven Cities Basin -- Establishment of the Iskar Reservoir Minimum Sanitary Storage Capacity -- Eutrophication in the Blackwater River Catchment, Ireland -- The Proposal of IWRM in the Bouregreg Basin and How it Fits with the UNESCO/HELP Policy Program -- Impact of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant on the Druksiai Cooler - Lake -- Transboundary River Contract Semois-Semoy Between Belgium (Wallonia) and France -- Ground and Water Levels Change in the Scheldt Basin -- The Architecture of a Decision Support System (DSS) for Groundwater Quality Preservation in Terceira Island (Azores) -- Greece: Ecosystem Based IWM Plans in the Framework of WFD Implementation: The “Strymon” Pilot Project -- The Role of the Help Programme -- Participation Aspects in the Realisation of the Nete River Basin Management Plan: Methodology and Application -- The Use of Hydrological Characteristics for Wetland Habitats Protection in Water Management of the Upper Narew River System -- Saltwater Intrusion in a Unconfined Coastal Aquifer: The Case Study of Cervia (North Adriatic Sea, Italy) -- International and Inner Transboundary River Basins in the Kaliningrad Oblast, South-Eastern Baltic -- Reports of the Working Groups -- Environmental Indicators for Water Resources Management -- Developments in Participation within Integrated Water Management -- Conclusion.

Water is essential for a wide range of human activities and it exists in relatively finite amounts. When dealing with water management, different issues should be combined: water demand, water quality, irrigation and food production, ecosystem preservation, cost minimization, technological options, legislative frameworks, social impact. The main goal of the book is to give a general framework about Integrated Water Management (IWM), that is the planning and management of water resources integrating the different issues involved (ecological, economic, technical legislative, transboundary, etc.). The manuscript is the result of the research activity and the exchange of knowledge among a team of experts in different disciplines and institutions related to water resources, and includes both the different environmental problems that affect the very different ecosystems, and the main methodologies able to face the problem of IWM. The book is divided in three parts: Concepts and approaches of IWM (Part I), Case studies (Part II), and Reports of the working groups (Part III). Finally, the book contains a section of conclusions that includes discussion about the presented methodologies, approaches, and issues. In particular, the perspective of experts in different disciplines (engineering perspective, biology perspective, economic perspective, etc. has been given).