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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783350003321

Titolo

Irrigation and river basin management : options for governance and institutions / / edited by Mark Svendsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., : CABI Pub. in association with the International Water Management Institute, c2005

ISBN

1-281-00431-6

9786611004316

1-84593-021-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Cabi Publishing

Altri autori (Persone)

SvendsenMark <1945->

Disciplina

333.91/3

Soggetti

Watershed management

Irrigation

Arid regions

Integrated water development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Preface; 1 Managing River Basins: an Institutional Perspective; 2 Phases of River Basin Development: the Need for Adaptive Institutions; 3 Limits to Leapfrogging: Issues in Transposing Successful River Basin Management Institutions in the Developing World; 4 Making Sound Decisions: Information Needs for Basin Water Management; 5 Financing River Basin Organizations; 6 Water Management for Irrigation and Environment in a Water-stressed Basin in Southwest France; 7 Basin Management in a Mature Closed Basin: the Case of California's Central Valley

8 River Basin Closure and Institutional Change in Mexico's Lerma–Chapala Basin; 9 Water Resources Planning and Management in the Olifants Basin of South Africa: Past, Present and Future; 10 Water Resource Management in the Dong Nai Basin: Current Allocation Processes and Perspectives for the Future; 11 Governing Closing Basins: the Case of the Gediz River in Turkey; 12 Managing River Basins: Lessons from Experience; 13 Providing Irrigation Serv

Sommario/riassunto

Reviews river basin management in six developed and developing



countries. This book describes and applies a functional theory of river basin management, based on the idea that there is a minimum set of functions required to manage basins effectively and a set of basic conditions that enable effective management institutions to emerge.