Malcolm Newson

Land, Water and Development (eBook, ePUB)

Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings into a structure and vision a surplus of recent individual themes of world water and river basin management. Using more than 600 newly published and web sources it is essential and innovative reading for students and researchers of Geography, Civil Engineering and Environmental Science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134111893
• Artikelnr.: 49375832

Autorenporträt

Malcolm Newson is former Professor of Physical Geography at Newcastle University. He specialises in fluvial geomorphology and professional training for the Environmental Agency. He worked for 16 years at the NERC's Institute of Hydrology (now CEH) on the Flood Study and then at the Plynlimon experimental catchments. He is currently Director of the Tyne Rivers Trust, a community charity promoting sustainable catchment management.

Inhaltsangabe

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 in River Basin Management: Stasis and Change in
England and Wales 8: Sustainable River Basin Management With Uncertain
Knowledge 9: Adaptive Land and Water Management: Through Participation and
Social Learning to Hydropolitical Decisions? Postscript