Land, water and development: sustainable and adaptive management of rivers

This book covers the multitude of scientific research findings, development of ‘tools’ and spatial/temporal scale challenges which have emerged in the lastdecade. Tensions are highlighted in the current and future role of large dams, country studies are retained (and considerably updated) and development contexts are explored in greater depth as a dividing line in capacity to cope withland and water stress. ‘Technical issues’ have been expanded to cover major droughts, environmental flows and the restoration of rivers and wetlands. A separate chapter picks up these themes under terms of their relationship with uncertainty and the widespread perception that a new ethos of adaptive managementis needed in the water sector. For students of geography, environmental science, hydrology, and development studies this innovative edition provides a reasoned, academic basis of evidence for sustainable, adaptive management of rivers and related large-scale ecosystems using more than 600 new sources. It will also prove invaluable for lecturers and practitioners. INDICE: 1: A ‘World Water Crisis’? The History and Current Trajectory of Water Management 2: The River Basin (Eco)System: Biophysical Dynamics, ‘Natural’ and ‘Compromised’ 3: Land-Water Interactions: The Evidence Base for Catchment Planning and Management 4: Managing Land, Water and Rivers in the Developed World: An International Survey 5: River Basins and Development: Sample Trajectories 6: Technical Issues in River Basin Management 7: Institutional Issues inRiver Basin Management: Stasis and Change in England and Wales 8: SustainableRiver Basin Management With Uncertain Knowledge 9: Adaptive Land and Water Management: Through Participation and Social Learning to Hydropolitical Decisions? Postscript

• ISBN: 978-0-415-41945-1
• Editorial: Taylor and Francis
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés