POLICY SUPPORT
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About the Guidelines

The Nostrum-DSS Guidelines aim is to contribute to an improved design, development and application of suitable DSS tools for IWRM in the Mediterranean region.
A summary of the Nostrum-DSS Guidelines is available and specifically targeted for Policy Makers. It:

• provides basic concepts and principles of decision support systems technology for water management
• points out which specific roles DSS can have to support water management
• provides recommendation for the collaborative and participatory development of DSS tools for water management
• introduces to the contents of the Nostrum-DSS Guidelines.

» Summary of Nostrum-DSS Guidelines (Not availale yet)

Policy Leaflets and Documents

The Nostrum-DSS Leaflets Series includes the policy leaflets, technical leaflets and case studies leaflets series. The three series summarise and present the contents of the relevant scientific reports produced under the Coordination Action.

The policy leaflets series is based on Nostrum-DSS deliverables (see the table below for further information).
 

Policy Leaflets	Extended Documents
» NOSTRUM-DSS Guidelines (pdf, 251 Kb) Available in:	» D5-3 Best Practices Guidelines
» Multi-sectoral approach to water management in the Mediterranean (pdf, 239 Kb) Available in:	» D2-4 Report on multi-sectoral approaches to DSS uses in water management
» Multi-disciplinary approaches to decision-making and IWRM in the Mediterranean (pdf, 258 Kb) Available in:	» D3-4 Multi-disciplinary report on approaches to decision making and IWRM
»Governance and Water Management in the Mediterranean (pdf, 258 Kb) Available in:	» D6-5 Thematic report on governance for IWRM
» Conflicting water uses in the Mediterranean (pdf, 297 Kb) Available in:	» D6-6 Thematic report on social aspects of conflicting water uses
» Public Participation for Water Management in the Mediterranean (pdf, 240 Kb) Available in:	» D6-7 Thematic report on Dss and stakeholders' participation

Nostrum-DSS Meta-Guidelines

The Meta-Guidelines is a collection of projects outcomes and other material which have been developed to assist practitioners and policy makers by providing information and references for the development of enhanced IWRM plans, with specific focus on the use of DSS tools. The Meta-Guidelines are conceived as a 3D web based tool developed upon a series of layers in which products are displayed according to an increasing degree of detail and technical content (see the figure below). Briefs, guidelines, toolboxes, manuals, glossaries as well as links to existing DSS for IWRM are available through the Meta-Guidelines.

The Nostrum-DSS Guidelines summarises and facilitates the access to the information contained in the web based tool. Therefore the document is structured on four main parts following the structure of the Meta-Guidelines:
Introduction; Actor and Problem Analysis; Policy/Decision Design; Policy/Decision Choice.
» Nostrum DSS meta-guidelines

IWRM Glossary

The Nostrum-DSS Meta-Glossary is a collection of relevant terms for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and collected on more than 60 web sources. Whenever available, different definitions can easily be compared across disciplines and methodologies.
» IWRM Glossary

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