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

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated with improving our management of fresh water take the potential remedies out of the hands of simple, local, hard engineering and into much larger units – the basin, the ecosystem and the global context, and also require longer term perspectives. The Third Edition follows the same structure as its predecessors, presenting the historical and scientific backgrounds to land-water interactions and establishing the links with development processes and policies. Throughout, its two major messages are that our new philosophy should be one of ‘humans in theecosystem’ and that the guidance from science, being uncertain and contested,must be operationalized in a participatory system of governance based on participation. Following a review of progress towards these elements in the developed world, the international case studies update the situation in the developing world following the Millennium Development Goals, our new emphasis on poverty and on global food supplies.

• ISBN: 978-0-415-41946-8
• Editorial: Routledge
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 441
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés