**Meet the editor**

Dr. Uli Uhlig, Ph.D., is a scientist at the Groundwater Research Institute Dresden and the managing director of a consulting office. He studied Hydrology and Water Management at the Technical University Dresden and the National University of Ireland in Galway. In 1999. and 2000. he finished his studies with a diploma as a Hydrologist and a diploma as an Engineer specializing

in groundwater management. In the last decade he worked at the Groundwater Research Institute Dresden in the field of groundwater management, remediation technologies and hydrology. During his work he published a number of papers and regularly presented the results of his researches at different conferences. He is still connected to the University and periodically teaches lectures at the Technical University Dresden and the Brandenburg University of Technology, where he finished his Ph.D. in 2010.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Generalized Models of River** 

Ralph A. Wurbs

Dejan Komatina

Chapter 4 **Assessing Environmental and** 

and Alfredo Ortega-Rubio

Chapter 5 **Integration Challenges of Water and** 

Nikki Funke and Inga Jacobs

**for Precision Farming of Rice 107**  M.S.M. Amin, M.K. Rowshon and W. Aimrun

**Part 2 Water and Agriculture 79** 

Chapter 6 **Paddy Water Management** 

**Part 1 Water Resource Management for Rivers and Reservoirs 1** 

**Water Resources Management at River Basin Scale 43** 

**Sustainability Indicators in Arid and Semiarid Zones 67** 

**Land Reform – A Critical Review of South Africa 81** 

**System Development and Management 3** 

**as a Basis for Sustainable Development – The Case of the Sava River Basin 23** 

José Pinho, José Vieira, Rui Pinho and José Araújo

**Social Dimensions of Water Issues Through** 

Enrique Troyo-Diéguez, Arturo Cruz-Falcón, Alejandra Nieto-Garibay, Ignacio Orona-Castillo, Bernardo Murillo-Amador, José Luis García-Hernández

Chapter 2 **Integrated Water Resources Management** 

Chapter 3 **Web-Based Decision Support Framework for** 
