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

"As water scarcity increases, pressure to re-allocate 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 pat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Svendsen, Mark, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub. in association with the International Water Management Institute, ©2005.
Colección:CAB books.
Temas:
Watershed management.
Watershed management > Case studies.
Irrigation.
Arid regions.
Integrated water development.
Bassins hydrographiques > Gestion.
Bassins hydrographiques > Gestion > Études de cas.
Régions arides.
Ressources en eau > Aménagement intégré.
irrigation systems.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
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.
Arid regions
Integrated water development
Irrigation
Watershed management
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"As water scarcity increases, pressure to re-allocate 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 implications for all involved players, particularly the agriculturalists whose livelihoods are based on irrigation. Drawing on research by IWMI and others, this book reviews basin management in six developed and developing countries, applying to the cases a functional theory of river basin management. The theory is based on the idea that there is a minimum set of functions that enable effective management in 'successful' river basins. The book also presents a set of basic conditions required for effective management institutions to emerge. This book will be of interest to professionals in river basin management, irrigation, hydrology, soils, natural resources management, the social sciences, agricultural development and engineering, at both management and policy-making levels."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1845930215
9781845930219
1281004316
9781281004314

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