An Information System for Integrated Land and Water Resources Management in the Kara River Basin ( Togo and Benin )

A prerequisite for integrated land and water resources management (ILWRM) is a holistic river basin assessment. The latter requires information and data from different scientific disciplines but also appropriate data management systems to store and manage historical and real time data, set up protoc...

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Published inInternational journal of database management systems Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 15 - 27
Main Authors BADJANA, Heou Maleki, ZANDER, Franziska, KRALISCH, Sven, HELMSCHROT, Jorg, FLÜGEL, Wolfgang-Albert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.02.2015
Subjects
Assessments
Data storage
Information systems
Land
Management
Resource management
River basins
Water resources
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Summary:A prerequisite for integrated land and water resources management (ILWRM) is a holistic river basin assessment. The latter requires information and data from different scientific disciplines but also appropriate data management systems to store and manage historical and real time data, set up protocols that facilitate data and information access and sharing among different stakeholders, and triggering further collaboration among different institutions in support of watershed-based assessment, management and planning. In West Africa in general and especially in the transboundary Volta River basin where different environmental data are collected and managed by different agencies in different countries and also where data access and dissemination are very challenging and difficult tasks, comprehensive river basin information systems are required. This paper presents the Oti River Basin Information System (OtiRBIS), a web-based data storage, management and analysis platform that addresses these needsand facilitates ILWRM implementation in the Kara river basin.
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ISSN:0975-5985
0975-5705
DOI:10.5121/ijdms.2015.7102