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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 88, Issue 4, Pages 1190-1201Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.06.007
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sustainability; indicators; water management; catchment management; River Dee; River Sinos
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This paper reports the formulation and application of a framework of catchment-level water resource management indicators designed to integrate environmental economic and social aspects of sustainability. The framework of nine indicators was applied to the River Dee and River Sinos catchments in Scotland and Brazil. respectively following an indicator selection process that involved inputs from water management professionals in both countries, and a pilot exercise in Scotland. The framework was found to capture a number of key sustainability concerns. and was broadly welcomed by water resource managers and experts as a means of better understanding sustainable water resource management. Issues relating to poor water quality and public water supply were particularly prominent in the findings for the Sinos, while findings for the Dee suggested that more attention might be focused on building institutional capacity and public participation in catchment management. The use of some proxy indicators was required in both cathchments due to poor data availability, and this problem may hinder the further development of indicator frameworks that attempt to better integrate environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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