River basin trajectories : societies, environments and development /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Series: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 8.
• Subjects: Water resources development > Case studies.; Water-supply > Case studies. > Political aspects; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Plant Production.; Soil Water Management (Irrigation and Drainage), (Revised June 2002); Water Resources.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Agriculture.; Ecosystems.; Food security.; Irrigation.; Water management.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to...

Table of Contents:

• River basin trajectories : an inquiry into changing waterscapes / François Molle and Philippus Wester
• Squeezed dry : the historical trajectory of the lower Jordan River basin / Mauro Van Aken, François Molle and Jean-Philippe Venot
• Are good intentions leading to good outcomes? Continuities in social, economic and hydro-political trajectories in the Olifants River basin, South Africa / Douglas J. Merrey, Hervé Lévite and Barbara van Koppen
• From half-full to half-empty : the hydraulic mission and water over-exploitation in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester, Eric Mollard, Paula Silva-Ochoa and Sergio Vargas-Velázquez
• Managing the Yellow River : continuity and change / David Pietz and Mark Giordano
• The Colorado River : what prospect for 'a river no more'? / Douglas J. Kenney
• Sharing scarce resources in a Mediterranean River basin : Wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia / Patrick Legoulven, Christian Leduc, Mohamed Salah Bachta and Jean-Christophe Poussin
• Water competition, variability and river basin governance : a critical analysis of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania / Bruce Lankford, Siza Tumbo and Kossa Rajabu
• Buying respite : Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud River basin, Iran / François Molle, Iran Ghazi and Hammond Murray-Rust
• Rural dynamics and new challenges in the Indian water sector : the trajectory of the Krishna basin, South India / Jean-Philippe Venot
• Pumped out : basin closure and farmer adaptations in the Bhavani basin in Southern India / Mats Lannerstad and David Molden
• Much ado about the Murray : the drama of restraining water use / Hugh Turral, Daniel Connell and Jennifer McKay.