Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability
In this paper we assess the irrigation water use in the Danube Basin, highlight its complexity, identify future challenges and show the relevance for a basin-wide integrative irrigation management plan as part of a more holistic and coherent resource policy. In this sense, we base our integrative re...
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| author | Dogaru Diana Mauser Wolfram Balteanu Dan Krimly Tatjana Lippert Christian Sima Mihaela Szolgay Jan Kohnova Silvia Hanel Martin Nikolova Mariyana Szalai Sandor Frank Anton |
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| description | In this paper we assess the irrigation water use in the Danube Basin, highlight its complexity, identify future challenges and show the relevance for a basin-wide integrative irrigation management plan as part of a more holistic and coherent resource policy. In this sense, we base our integrative regional assessments of the water-food-energy nexus on insights from an extensive review and scientific synthesis of the Danube Basin and region, experimental field studies on irrigation and agricultural water consumption, current irrigation related policies and strategies in most of the Danube countries, and regulatory frameworks on resources at European Union level. We show that a basin-wide integrative approach to water use calls for the evaluation of resource use trade-offs, resonates with the need for transdisciplinary research in addressing nexus challenges and supports integrative resource management policies within which irrigation water use represents an inherent part. In this respect, we propose a transdisciplinary research framework on sustainable irrigation water use in the Danube Basin. The findings were summarized into four interconnected problem areas in the Danube Basin, which directly or indirectly relate to irrigation strategies and resource policies: prospective water scarcity and Danube water connectedness, agricultural droughts, present and future level of potential yields, and science based proactive decision-making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8068a0c3ce1e494092c3b6d22eee10ad2022-12-22T00:21:15ZengUniversity of SzegedJournal of Environmental Geography2060-467X2019-11-01123-411210.2478/jengeo-2019-0007jengeo-2019-0007Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to SustainabilityDogaru Diana0Mauser Wolfram1Balteanu Dan2Krimly Tatjana3Lippert Christian4Sima Mihaela5Szolgay Jan6Kohnova Silvia7Hanel Martin8Nikolova Mariyana9Szalai Sandor10Frank Anton11Institute of Geography, Romanian Academy, D. Racovita 12, 023993Bucharest, RomaniaInstitute of Farm Management, University of Hohenheim, Schloß-Osthof-Südflügel, 70593Stuttgart, GermanyInstitute of Geography, Romanian Academy, D. Racovita 12, 023993Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Luisenstrasse 37, D-80333Munich, GermanyDepartment of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Luisenstrasse 37, D-80333Munich, GermanyInstitute of Geography, Romanian Academy, D. Racovita 12, 023993Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 11, Block C, 12th floor, 810 05Bratislava, Slovak RepublicDepartment of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 11, Block C, 12th floor, 810 05Bratislava, Slovak RepublicFaculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 165 00Prague - Suchdol, Czech RepublicNational Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., Bl. 3, 1113Sofia, BulgariaFaculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Szent-István-University, Páter Károly utca 1, H-2100Gödöllő, HungaryLeibniz Supercomputing Center, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Boltzmannstraße 1, 85748Garching, GermanyIn this paper we assess the irrigation water use in the Danube Basin, highlight its complexity, identify future challenges and show the relevance for a basin-wide integrative irrigation management plan as part of a more holistic and coherent resource policy. In this sense, we base our integrative regional assessments of the water-food-energy nexus on insights from an extensive review and scientific synthesis of the Danube Basin and region, experimental field studies on irrigation and agricultural water consumption, current irrigation related policies and strategies in most of the Danube countries, and regulatory frameworks on resources at European Union level. We show that a basin-wide integrative approach to water use calls for the evaluation of resource use trade-offs, resonates with the need for transdisciplinary research in addressing nexus challenges and supports integrative resource management policies within which irrigation water use represents an inherent part. In this respect, we propose a transdisciplinary research framework on sustainable irrigation water use in the Danube Basin. The findings were summarized into four interconnected problem areas in the Danube Basin, which directly or indirectly relate to irrigation strategies and resource policies: prospective water scarcity and Danube water connectedness, agricultural droughts, present and future level of potential yields, and science based proactive decision-making.https://doi.org/10.2478/jengeo-2019-0007basin-wide irrigation managementresource policiestransdisciplinary researchdanube basin |
| spellingShingle | Dogaru Diana Mauser Wolfram Balteanu Dan Krimly Tatjana Lippert Christian Sima Mihaela Szolgay Jan Kohnova Silvia Hanel Martin Nikolova Mariyana Szalai Sandor Frank Anton Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability Journal of Environmental Geography basin-wide irrigation management resource policies transdisciplinary research danube basin |
| title | Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability |
| title_full | Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability |
| title_fullStr | Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability |
| title_short | Irrigation Water Use in the Danube Basin: Facts, Governance and Approach to Sustainability |
| title_sort | irrigation water use in the danube basin facts governance and approach to sustainability |
| topic | basin-wide irrigation management resource policies transdisciplinary research danube basin |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/jengeo-2019-0007 |
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