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Transboundary water management : principles and practice /

The management of water resources across boundaries, whether sub-national or international, is one of the most difficult challenges facing water managers today. The upstream exploitation or diversion of groundwater or rivers can have devastating consequences for those living downstream, and transbou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Earle, Anton, Jägerskog, Anders, Öjendal, Joakim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : setting the scene for transboundary water management approaches / Anton Earle, Anders Jägerskog, and Joakim Öjendal
  • Why negotiate? : asymmetric endowments and asymmetric power and the invisible nexus of water, trade, and power that brings apparent water security / J.A. (Tony) Allan and Naho Mirumachi
  • Power, hegemony, and critical hydropolitics / Ana Elisa Cascão and Mark Zeitoun
  • Getting beyond the environment-conflict trap : benefit sharing in international river basins / Marwa Daoudy
  • International water law : concepts, evolution and development / Owen McIntyre
  • Aquifer resources in a transboundary context : a hidden resource? : enabling the practitioner to "see it & bank it" for good use / Shammy (Shaminder) Puri and Wilhelm Struckmeier
  • Governance in transboundary basins : the role of stakeholders; concepts and approaches in international river basins / Nicole Kranz and Erik Mostert
  • Environmental flows in shared watercourses : review of assessment methods and relevance in the transboundary setting / Cate Brown and Jackie King
  • Managing water negotiations and conflicts in concept and in practice / Todd Jarvis and Aaron Wolf
  • Identifying business models for transboundary river basin institutions / Jakob Granit
  • Sustainability of transnational water agreements in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change / Malin Falkenmark and Anders Jägerskog
  • Enhanced knowledge and education systems for strengthening the capacity of transboundary water management / Léna Salamé and Pieter van der Zaag
  • Case studies of transboundary water management initiatives : fifteen initiatives from various parts of the world / compiled by Virginia Hooper and Michael McWilliams
  • Towards a conceptual framework for transboundary water management / Joakim Öjendal, Anton Earle, Anders Jägerskog.