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Irrigation and river basin management : options for governance and institutions /

As water scarcity increases, pressure to reallocate water from agriculture to other uses mounts. With this mounting pressure comes the need for institutional arrangements that can manage and accommodate shifts to higher value uses of water. These changes in resource allocation patterns have profound...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with the International Water Management Institute, 2005.
Subjects:
Watershed management > Case studies.
Arid regions.
Watershed management.
Integrated water development.
Irrigation.
Agencies and Organizations.
Laws and Regulations.
Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000)
Policy and Planning.
Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002)
Water Resources.
Community Participation and Development, (New March 2000)
Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000)
Community involvement.
Decision making.
Institution building.
Institutions.
Irrigation systems.
Irrigation water.
Organizations.
Planning.
Politics.
Rivers.
Social participation.
Stakeholders.
Water allocation.
Water availability.
Water management.
Water policy.
Water supply.
Watersheds.
Electronic books.
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Managing River Basins : an Institutional Perspective / Mark Svendsen, Philippus Wester and François Molle
  • Phases of River Basin Development : the Need for Adaptive Institutions / David Molden, R. Sakthivadivel, M. Samad and Martin Burton
  • Limits to Leapfrogging : Issues in Transposing Successful River Basin Management Institutions in the Developing World / Tushaar Shah, Ian Makin and R. Sakthivadivel
  • Making Sound Decisions : Information Needs for Basin Water Management / Martin Burton and David Molden
  • Financing River Basin Organizations / Charles L. Abernethy
  • Water Management for Irrigation and Environment in a Water-stressed Basin in Southwest France / Henri Tardieu
  • Basin Management in a Mature Closed Basin : the Case of California's Central Valley / Mark Svendsen
  • River Basin Closure and Institutional Change in Mexico's Lerma-Chapala Basin / Philippus Wester, Christopher A. Scott and Martin Burton
  • Water Resources Planning and Management in the Olifants Basin of South Africa : Past, Present and Future / M. de Lange, D.J. Merrey, H. Levite and M. Svendsen
  • Water Resource Management in the Dong Nai Basin : Current Allocation Processes and Perspectives for the Future / Mark Svendsen, Claudia Ringler and Nguyen Duy Son
  • Governing Closing Basins : the Case of the Gediz River in Turkey / Mark Svendsen, D. Hammond Murray-Rust, Nilgün Harmancioğlu and Necdet Alpaslan
  • Managing River Basins : Lessons from Experience / Mark Svendsen and Philippus Wester
  • Providing Irrigation Services in Water-scarce Basins : Representation and Support / Philippus Wester, Tushaar Shah and Douglas J. Merrey.

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