Focus on Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM).



 Integrated Lake Basin Management (ILBM) Regardless, the way in which the stress is exerted from the basin to the lentic body of lake water is the same, and a common and integrated approach is needed to address these wide ranging issues in lake basin management. The ILBM approach is a way of thinking that assists lake basin managers and stakeholders in achieving the sustainable management of lakes and their basins. It takes into account that lakes have a great variety of resource values whose sus hose sustainable development and use  require  special managemen considerations for their lentic(static) water properties. Good basin management of a lake can be realized only through ILBM, or continuous improvement of lake of lake basin governance that integrates institution, policy, participation, science, technology and funding. The Improvement of the state of world of world’s lakes can be realized by promoting ILBM globally, with long-term and strong political commitment.

Importance of Basin Approach: Management does not stop at the lakeshore, but must extend into the basin, and often beyond. The largest number of lake issues reported in several studies originated from their upstream or downstream downstream basins. 

• Border Barriers (Transboundary Lakes) Must be Overcome: In principle, transboundary lakes are more difficult to manage. In practice, however, there is good progress in establishing agreed plans of action and institutions.

Technological Interventions Can be Effective: Technologies can have dramatically positive effects on lakes, p lakes, provided th ovided the root causes of their p root causes of their problems and oblems and their sustainability ar their sustainability are properly addressed. ddressed. 

• Success Depends Heavily on Stakeholder Involvement: Degradation of the ecosystem services provided by lakes results from unsustainable human interventions for resource development. Sustainability can be best achieved when the respective stakeholders fully understand and appreciate their respective roles regarding the problems.

  •  Long-term Commitment is Esse is Essential: The long and complex dynamics of lakes means that at successful project outcomes are seldom immediate. Thus, there is a need for indicators that illustrate both planning (Process Indicators), implementation (Stress Reduction Indicators) and actual lake basin basin improvements (Environmental Status Indicators).

  • Monitoring Should Not be Overlooked: Long-term monitoring data sets can form the basis for mutual understanding of lake basin management issues, thereby leading to cooperative actions to address them.

  • Lake Basin Management is a Continuing Process not a One-time Project: Management interventions at a lake basin usually first happen in isolation, often for non-lake related reasons. Through time, however, the need fo need for the integration of projects can grow. 

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