AN INFORMATION SYSTEM
FOR INTEGRATED LAND AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE KARA RIVER BASIN
(TOGO AND BENIN)
Hèou Maléki BADJANA1,2,3,
Franziska ZANDER3 , Sven KRALISCH3,4 , Jörg
HELMSCHROT4,5, Wolfgang-Albert FLÜGEL3,4
1West
African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL,
www.wascal.org), Graduate Research Program – Climate Change and Water
resources, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin
2
Laboratory of Botany and Plant Ecology, Faculty of Sciences; University of
Lome, Lome, Togo
3Department
of Geoinformatics, Hydrology and Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller University of
Jena, Jena, Germany
4Southern
African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management
(SASSCAL, www.sasscal.org)
5Biocentre
Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
ABSTRACT
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
needs and facilitates ILWRM implementation in the Kara river basin.
KEYWORDS
Integrated land and water
resources management (ILWRM); holistic hydrological river basin analysis;
web-based information system; River basin information system (RBIS); the Kara
river basin
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ORIGINAL SOURCE URL: http://airccse.org/journal/ijdms/papers/7115ijdms02.pdf
VOLUME LINK: http://airccse.org/journal/ijdms/current2015.html
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