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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786614703321

Titolo

River basin management in the twenty-first century : understanding people and place / / editors: Victor R. Squires, Visiting Professor, College of Grassland Science, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China and International Consultant, Ade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-429-16708-3

1-4665-7963-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (535 p.)

Disciplina

333.91/62

333.9162

Soggetti

Watershed management

Watersheds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Science Publishers book.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Scope and Purpose; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Preamble: An Introduction to People and Placein River Basin Management; PART 1 IWRM-Principles and Practices; Chapter 1 The Hegemony of Integrated WaterResources Management as a GlobalWater Discourse; Chapter 2 Beyond IWRM: Developing TerritorialIntelligence at the Local Scales; Chapter 3 Addressing Implementation Deficits Related to IWRM in Canada; Chapter 4 Integrated Watershed Management of Water and Other Natural Resources in River Basins of the United States

Chapter 5 Integrated Water Resources Management of Inland River Basins in the Hexi Corridor, Gansu, China with Special Reference to the Shule River BasinChapter 6 The Critical Role of Local Farmers in IWRM in Ghaghra-Gomti Basin, India; PART 2 Transboundary River Management and Politics; Chapter 7 Managing Transboundary River Basins; Chapter 8 The Privatization Initiatives in the Turkish Water Sector: Reflections on the Transboundary Water Politics in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin; Chapter 9 Challenges for Management of the Orange/Senqu



River Basin

Chapter 10 Political Economy versus Comparative Advantage in the Nile Basin: Short Term Advantages or Long Term Gain?PART 3 Water Management Policy, Politics and Economics; Chapter 11 Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin: Main Issues and Legal Approaches; Chapter 12 People versus Place in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin: Balancing Economic, Social Ecosystem and Community Outcomes; Chapter 13 The Role of Water Users Associations in Integrated Water Resource Management of Zhangye City in Heihe River Basin, China

Chapter 14 Republic of Tajikistan: Its Role in the Management of Water Resources in the Aral Sea BasinChapter 15 Lake Eyre Basin-Challenges for Managing the World's Most Variable River System; PART 4 People and Place; Chapter 16 People and Place as Determinants of Success or Failure to Meet Management Objectives in River Basins; Chapter 17 From Policy to Practice: Institutional Arrangements for Integrated River Basin Management in Nepal; Chapter 18 Sink or Swim: Alternative Approaches to Flood Disaster Reconstruction and Mitigation

Chapter 19 The Role of Territorial Intelligence: The Case of the Thau Territory, Southern FranceChapter 20 Uniting Perspectives: People and Place in River Basin Management; Glossary of Terms; About the Editors; Color Plate Section; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The mid-latitude regions of the world are those with the greatest development of agriculture industry, and with burgeoning demands on natural resources. Management of the rivers and the surrounding landscape is one of the important tasks for today and for the foreseeable future. Lessons learned from centuries of management (and mismanagement) have been distilled into principles and practices which form the subject matter for this book. It provides both a global perspective and an entrée to the special problems associated with management of transboundary rivers.