Last month, Dr Nick Voulvoulis and I visited the Netherlands to meet our GLOBAQUA partner, Dr Adriaan Slob, to develop a policy work plan involving stakeholder collaboration workshops to facilitate the bridging of the science and policy gap for the GLOBAQUA catchment case studies. The meeting concluded with the need to promote interdisciplinarity between researchers, water managers, policy-makers and other actors within the catchment in both the assessment of water quality and improving management decisions to meet the objectives of the Water Framework Directive (WFD).
Why interdisciplinary knowledge is important in catchment management?
The management of water resources is becoming increasingly complex as it is deeply embedded within a diverse range of economic and cultural activities emphasising the need to understand how our society interacts with the natural water environment.