AWRA Policy Committee Releases Volume Ⅱ of Proactive Flood and Drought Management Report

摘要

The awra policy Committee recently released "Proactive Flood and Drought Management, Volume Ⅱ: A Selection of Applied Strategies and Lessons Learned from Around the United States," edited by L. Donald Duke. This volume continues the work begun in the original report published by AWRA in 2013, adding six case studies and two overview essays to the original volume's eight case studies. The purpose of the two reports is to provide a better understanding of problems posed by floods and droughts and the emerging policy responses for better addressing these critical issues, with special focus on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as a way of better achieving more robust solutions. IWRM - defined by AWRA in 2011 as "the coordinated planning, development, protection, and management of water, land and related resources in a manner that fosters sustainable economic activity, improves or sustains environmental quality, ensures public health and safety and provides for the sustainability of communities and ecosystems" - is increasingly being recognized as the preferred approach for addressing complex water resources issues.