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Description River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding People and Place by Victor Roy Squires, Hugh Martin Milner and Katherine Anne Daniell CRC Press | July 2014 | ISBN-10: 1466579625 | PDF | 542 pages | 15 mb http://www.amazon.com/River-Basin-Management-Twenty-First-Century/dp/1466579625 Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates 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 CONTENTS Scope and Purpose v List of Contributors xiii List of Figures xix List of Tables xxiii List of Boxes xxv Preamble: An Introduction to People and Place in River Basin Management PART 1: IWRM—Principles and Practices 1. The Hegemony of Integrated Water Resources Management as a Global Water Discourse 2. Beyond IWRM: Developing Territorial Intelligence at the Local Scales 3. Addressing Implementation Defi cits Related to IWRM in Canada 4. Integrated Watershed Management of Water and Other Natural Resources in River Basins of the United States 5. Integrated Water Resources Management of Inland River Basins in the Hexi Corridor, Gansu, China with Special Reference to the Shule River Basin 6. The Critical Role of Local Farmers in IWRM in Ghaghra-Gomti Basin, India PART 2: Transboundary River Management and Politics 7. Managing Transboundary River Basins 8. The Privatization Initiatives in the Turkish Water Sector: Refl ections on the Transboundary Water Politics in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin 9. Challenges for Management of the Orange/Senqu River Basin 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 11. Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Yellow River Basin: Main Issues and Legal Approaches 12. People versus Place in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin: Balancing Economic, Social Ecosystem and Community Outcomes 13. The Role of Water Users Associations in Integrated Water Resource Management of Zhangye City in Heihe River Basin, China 14. Republic of Tajikistan: Its Role in the Management of Water Resources in the Aral Sea Basin 15. Lake Eyre Basin—Challenges for Managing the World’s Most Variable River System PART 4: People and Place 16. People and Place as Determinants of Success or Failure to Meet Management Objectives in River Basins 17. From Policy to Practice: Institutional Arrangements for Integrated River Basin Management in Nepal 18. Sink or Swim: Alternative Approaches to Flood Disaster Reconstruction and Mitigation 19. The Role of Territorial Intelligence: The Case of the Thau Territory, Southern France 20. Uniting Perspectives: People and Place in River Basin Management Glossary of Terms 485 Subject and Author Index 489 About the Editors 499 Color Plate Section 501 Sharing Widget |