Strategic environmental assessment : improving water resources governance and decision making : main report / Rafik Hirji and Richard Davis.

Davis, Richard.
Hirji, Rafik.
Washington DC : The World Bank, 2009.
xvii, 67 p. : map ; 28 cm.
(Water Sector Board Discussion paper series ; paper no. 12)
Water resources development.
Water-supply – Economic aspects.
Water resources development – Economic aspects.
Watershed management.
Water-supply – Management.
Water-supply.
Pamphlet HD 1691 .D38 2009
21599 21600
“May 2009”.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Abbreviations—Acknowledgments—Foreword—Executive summary—Chapter 1 : introduction—Chapter 2 : integrated water resources management : issues and responses—Chapter 3 : strategic environmental assessment : evolution and effectiveness—Chapter 4 : lessons from global water-sector seas—Chapter 5 : lessons from Tanzanian water sector reforms—Chapter 6 : a framework for using seas for IWRM—References—Appendixes.
Summary: “The overall goal of this report is to help water resources and environment professionals within the bank and client countries use SEAs to effectively implement the principles of IWRM. The report contains four elements: (1) a review of sea support for IWRM, (2) an analysis of 10 case studies and four water polices, (3) an in-depth pilot study of water sector reform in a developing country, and (4) a framework for enhancing the use of SEAs in integrated water resources management. The main findings of these elements are summarized below”—(p. xiii).