Future possibilities for management intervention in drainage basins
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The importance of strengthening participation of local communities to improve water management in different economic development contexts, including sustainable water use and efficiency, and ensuring access to clean, safe and affordable water
Increased dam building for multipurpose water schemes, and their costs and benefits
The growing importance of integrated drainage basin management (IDBM) plans, and the costs and benefits they bring
Growing pressures on major wetlands and efforts to protect them, such as the Ramsar Convention
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Three Gorges Dam
The Mekong
The Danube
The Murray-Darling
Kissimmee River
Past paper questions
“Strategies adopted to meet the competing demands for water are not always effective.”
Discuss this statement with reference to one named river basin [10]
Discuss this statement with reference to one named river basin [10]
Discuss the positive and negative hydrological impacts of dam and reservoir construction. [10]
May 2018
(c) To what extent has the management of one major wetland area been successful? [10]
(c) To what extent has the management of one major wetland area been successful? [10]
May 2019.
Answer either part (a) or part (b).
Either
2. (a) Examine the costs and benefits, for different stakeholders, of one recent integrated drainage basin management (IDBM) plan. [10]
Or
2. (b) Examine the relative importance of erosion and deposition in the formation of floodplains and meanders. [10]
Answer either part (a) or part (b).
Either
2. (a) Examine the costs and benefits, for different stakeholders, of one recent integrated drainage basin management (IDBM) plan. [10]
Or
2. (b) Examine the relative importance of erosion and deposition in the formation of floodplains and meanders. [10]