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Participation for Effective Environmental Governance
Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with the aim of revolutionizing European water …
Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services
Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene …
Catchment and River Basin Management
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water – governance systems and …
Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco
This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book …
Rivers and Society
Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river …
Adaptation to Climate Change through Water Resources Management
The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variations in river flow, increased …
Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World
This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world. These shared rivers are the setting for …
Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia
The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most …
Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters
Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of …
Water, Power and Identity
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and …
Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer
In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to …
Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region
The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies. But …