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Integrated land and water resources management (ILWRM) must be understood as a continuous process of coordinating sustainable land and water resources management with the aims (1) to maximize the socioeconomic development and social welfare without (2) compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems and their hydrological ecosystem functions (ESF) and ecosystem services (ESS). From a practical point of view ILWRM has to provide the administrative and technological means to (1) manage the available surface and subsurface water resource in the landscape of a river basin, (2) guarantee their sustainable recharge dynamics both in terms of water quantity and quality, and (3) protect water users and the society against destructive hazards like floods, droughts, and erosion.
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Flügel, WA., Pechstädt, J., Flemming, A. (2015). Applying the Response Units (RU) Concept for ILWRM. In: Sharma, N., Flügel, WA. (eds) Applied Geoinformatics for Sustainable Integrated Land and Water Resources Management (ILWRM) in the Brahmaputra River basin. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1967-5_9
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