| Summary: | Integrated river basin approaches are indispensable in order to prevent
problems and conflicts and to meet social and natural demands. River basin is a
complex system which is bordered by hydrological and not political boundaries.
Therefore, integrated river basin management can be defined as a process of
coordinating conservation, management, and development of water, land, and
related resources across political sectors within a given river basin, in order to
maximize the economic and social benefit derived from water resources in an
equitable manner while preserving and, where necessary, restoring fresh water
ecosystems.
The integration of river basin management can be also explained as an
effective social network among its stakeholders. Social network theory is
important to understand integrated river basin management, especially on the
relationship among stakeholders. These partnerships offer an institutional forum
in which multiple policy stakeholders in discussing and negotiating river basin
management plans.
The integrated river basin management is successful to increase the
communication and coordination and exchange of information among
stakeholders, build a forum to accommodate various interests and views. On the
other hand, the traditional river basin management showed less communication
and coordination and exchange information among stakeholders. There, the forum
of information sharing and communication and conflict resolution among
stakeholders did not exist. When we compare the institutional performance results
between those two river basins management, there is a significant difference about
the use of land of river basin area. The integrated river basin management
succeeds to conserve the forest area. The increase of people�s awareness and
willingness about environment consideration contributed to the stable of forest
area. However, the traditional river basin management indicated an ineffective
performance based on ecology purpose because the forest area decreased lost. The
people�s awareness and willingness to conserve the river basin area is lower than
the integrated river basin management area.
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