Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice

Better Water Management for Development
Herausgeber: Lenton, Roberto; Muller, Mike

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best way forward. This book illustrates how better water management, guided by the IWRM approach, has helped to meet a wide range of sustainable development goals.

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Better water management is crucial. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best approach, but is poorly understood, even within the water sector. This book provides practical guidance, based on real world examples, rather than theoretical constructs. Published with the Global Water Partnership

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781844076505
• ISBN-10: 1844076504
• Artikelnr.: 26022417

Autorenporträt

Roberto Lenton is Chair of the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership. He is former Director of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Division of the UNDP in New York and Director General of the International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka. Mike Muller was Director General of South Africa's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and is currently visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Public and Development Management. Chapter contributors include a number of other practitioners, such as Humberto Pena who led Chile's sector reforms and Akissa Bahri, currently director of IWMI in Africa, as well as experts from NGOs or with professional and academic backgrounds, including Peter Rogers from Harvard University and Judith Rees of the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. Part I: Local Level. 2. A Watershed in
Watershed Management: The Sukhomajri Experience. 3. A Tale of Two Cities:
Meeting Urban Water Demands through Sustainable Groundwater Management. 4.
Wetlands in Crisis: Improving Bangladesh's Wetland Ecosystems and
Livelihoods of the Poor who Depend on them. 5. Should Salmon Roam Free? Dam
Removal on the Lower Snake River. 6. Better Rural Livelihoods through
Improved Irrigation Management: Office du Niger (Mali). 7. From Water to
Wine: Maximizing the Productivity of Water Use in Agriculture while
Ensuring Sustainability. Part 2: Basin Level. 8. Turning Water Stress into
Water Management Success: Experiences in the Lerma-Chapala River Basin. 9.
Turning Conflict into Opportunities: The Case of Lake Biwa, Japan. 10.
Taming the Yangtze River by Enforcing Infrastructure Development under
IWRM. Part 3: National Level. 11. Taking it One Step at a Time: Chile's
Sequential, Adaptive Approach to Achieving the Three Es. 12. Attempting to
Do it All: How a New South Africa has Harnessed Water to Address its
Development Challenges. Part 4: Transnational Level. 13. Transboundary
Cooperation in Action for IntegratedWater Resources Management and
Development in the Lower Mekong Basin. 14. Conclusions: Lessons Learned and
Final Reflections. Index