7.5.5 Evaluate the Importance of Data Availability Gaps
and Prioritize Which to Address
Expanding the breadth of water management to include drought issues will require
making available and collecting additional data, typically needed for an adequate
evaluation of measures, their prioritization and monitoring their effectiveness.
VMM could take on the task of analysing data availability and identify which data
gaps should be addressed and in which priority. Data regarding volumes of water
abstracted and used by surface water users (and sometimes even data regarding
surface water rights) is often incomplete in Northwest Europe. This kind of data can
be a key to identifying where the potential for drought adaptation lies, implementing measures that make use of that potential, and enabling private actors to
incorporate drought risk into their actions.
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for regime change and sustainability. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
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and Prioritize Which to Address
Expanding the breadth of water management to include drought issues will require
making available and collecting additional data, typically needed for an adequate
evaluation of measures, their prioritization and monitoring their effectiveness.
VMM could take on the task of analysing data availability and identify which data
gaps should be addressed and in which priority. Data regarding volumes of water
abstracted and used by surface water users (and sometimes even data regarding
surface water rights) is often incomplete in Northwest Europe. This kind of data can
be a key to identifying where the potential for drought adaptation lies, implementing measures that make use of that potential, and enabling private actors to
incorporate drought risk into their actions.
Open Access This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/), which
permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a
link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes made are indicated.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the work’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in
the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory
regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt, or
reproduce the material.
References
Arnold, JG, Srinivasan R, Muttiah RS, Williams JR (1998) Large‐area hydrologic modeling and
assessment: Part I.Model development. J American Water Res Assoc 34(1):73–89.
Bressers H, Kuks S (eds) (2004) Integrated governance and water basin management. Conditions
for regime change and sustainability. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
CIW (2003) Decreet betreffende het integraal waterbeleid http://codex.vlaanderen.be/Portals/
Codex/documenten/1011715.html. Accessed 3 Aug 2015
CIW (2005) De eerste waterbeleidsnota. Erembodegem
CIW (2013) Tweede waterbeleidsnota—Inclusief waterbeheerkwesties. https://www.vlaanderen.
be/nl/publicaties/detail/tweede-waterbeleidsnota-inclusief-waterbeheerkwesties. Accessed 3
Aug 2015
COPERNICUS (2015) COPERNICUS global land service—Soil water index. http://land.
copernicus.eu/global. Accessed 28 July 2015
EC (2000) Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October
2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, p 72
EC (2007) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council—
Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union. COM (2007)
414 final, European Commission, Brussels. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/
PDF/?uri=CELEX:52007DC0414&from=EN. Accessed 14 Dec 2015
EC (2011) Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament the Council the
European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions A
7 Flanders: Regional Organization of Water and Drought …
157