Handbook of Knowledge Management for Sustainable Water Systems
Challenges in Water Management Series
1. Edition March 2018
328 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Further versions
A comprehensive synthesis of the best practices for management in the vital and rapidly growing field of sustainable water systems
Handbook of Knowledge Management for Sustainable Water Systems offers an authoritative resource that goes beyond the current literature to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. The text explores the concept of knowledge management as a key asset and a crucial component of organizational strategy as applied to the sustainability of water systems.
Using the knowledge management framework, the authors discuss socio-hydrology sustainable water systems that reflect the present political, economic and technological reality. The book draws on contributors from a number of disciplines including: economic development, financial, systems-networks, IT/IS data/analytics, behavioral, social, water systems, governance systems and related ecosystems. This vital resource:
* Contains a multifaceted approach that draws on a number of disciplines and contains contributions from experts in their various fields
* Offers a coherent approach that discusses the dynamic concept of sustainability drawing on data from people, systems and processes of diverse water systems
* Includes a comprehensive review of the topic and offers a platform for dialog between theory and empirical analysis
* Explores opportunities for multi-constituent synthesis
This book is written for regulators, water utility practitioners, researchers and students interested in the fledgling field of knowledge management and sustainable water systems and those who want to improve the effective and efficient management of a complex water system.
Meir Russ
PART ONE: ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER SYSTEMS
Chapter 1: Perspectives from a water research institute on Knowledge Management for Sustainable Water Management
Janet G. Hering, Lothar Nunnenmacher and Harald von Waldow
Chapter 2: Information transfer and knowledge sharing by water user associations in China
Dajun Shen, Xuedong Yu and Ali Guna
Chapter 3: Knowledge Management Systems for urban water sustainability: Lessons for developing nations
Vallari Chandna and Ana Iusco
Chapter 4: A Knowledge Management model for corporate water responsibility
Fabien Martinez
Chapter 5: How 21st Century Knowledge Management can greatly improve talent management for sustainable water project teams
Stephen Atkins, Lesley Gill, Kay Lion, Marie Schaddelee and Tonny Tonny
Chapter 6: How sustainable innovations win in the fish industry: Theorizing incumbent-entrant dynamics across aquaculture and fisheries
Bilgehan Uzunca and Shuk-Ching Li
Chapter 7: Decrease in federal regulations in the U.S.: Preparing for dirty water, can Knowledge Management help?
Breanne Parr
PART TWO: REGIONAL ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER SYSTEMS
Chapter 8: Knowledge Management strategies for drinking water protection in mountain forests
Roland Koeck, Eduard Hochbichler and Harald Vacik
Chapter 9: Knowledge Management, openness and transparency in sustainable water systems: The case of Eau Mediterranee
Chris Kimble and Isabelle Bourdon
Chapter 10: Complexity, collective action and water management: The case of Bilbao ria
Laura Albareda and Jose Antonio Campos
Chapter 11: Virtual and inter-organizational processes of knowledge creation and Ba for sustainable management of rivers
Federico Niccolini, Chiara Bartolacci, Cristina Cristalli and Daniela Isidori
Chapter 12: Water metabolism in the socio-economic system
Delin Fang and Bin Chen
MEIR RUSS is a Professor in Management at the Austin E. Cofrin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay. He also teaches at KEDGE-Bordeaux School of Management, the University of Pisa, GSA Master program, NORD University, Norway; Master of Knowledge Management program and at Roma-Tre, Rome, Italy Ph.D. program as well as at the Doctorate in "Economia Aziendale e Management" program at the University of Pisa. His research interests include human capital valuation methods, knowledge-based strategies and the new-knowledge based economic development among others. In addition to his academic focus, Dr. Russ serves in a consulting capacity with a number of multinational companies in the area of global strategic management and knowledge management. Dr. Russ is the founding editor of The International Journal of Management and Business (IJMB) and at present he is the Chief Editor of Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management (OJAKM).
