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| Titel |
Analysing inter-relationships among water, governance, human development variables in developing countries |
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C. Dondeynaz, C. Carmona Moreno, J. J. Céspedes Lorente |
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Englisch
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1027-5606
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In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ; 16, no. 10 ; Nr. 16, no. 10 (2012-10-26), S.3791-3816 |
| Datensatznummer |
250013530
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hess-16-3791-2012.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The "Integrated Water Resources Management" principle was formally laid down
at the International Conference on Water and Sustainable development in Dublin
1992. One of the main results of this conference is that improving Water and
Sanitation Services (WSS), being a complex and interdisciplinary issue, passes
through collaboration and coordination of different sectors (environment,
health, economic activities, governance, and international cooperation). These
sectors influence or are influenced by the access to WSS. The understanding of
these interrelations appears as crucial for decision makers in the water sector.
In this framework, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission
(EC) has developed a new database (WatSan4Dev database) containing 42 indicators
(called variables in this paper) from environmental, socio-economic, governance
and financial aid flows data in developing countries. This paper describes the
development of the WatSan4Dev dataset, the statistical processes needed to
improve the data quality, and finally, the analysis to verify the database
coherence is presented. Based on 25 relevant variables, the relationships
between variables are described and organised into five factors (HDP – Human
Development against Poverty, AP – Human Activity Pressure on water resources,
WR – Water Resources, ODA – Official Development Aid, CEC – Country
Environmental Concern). Linear regression methods are used to identify key
variables having influence on water supply and sanitation. First analysis
indicates that the informal urbanisation development is an important factor
negatively influencing the percentage of the population having access to WSS.
Health, and in particular children's health, benefits from the improvement of WSS.
Irrigation is also enhancing Water Supply service thanks to multi-purpose
infrastructure. Five country profiles are also created to deeper understand
and synthetize the amount of information gathered. This new classification of
countries is useful in identifying countries with a less advanced position and
weaknesses to be tackled. The relevance of indicators gathered to represent
environmental and water resources state is questioned in the discussion section.
The paper concludes with the necessity to increase the reliability of current
indicators and calls for further research on specific indicators, in particular
on water quality at national scale, in order to better include environmental
state in analysis to WSS. |
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