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Integrated water resources management [electronic resource] : global theory, emerging practice, and local needs / editors Peter P. Mollinga, Ajaya Dixit, Kusum Athukorala.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Water in South Asia ; v. 1.
- Water in South Asia ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--South Asia--Management.
- Water-supply.
- Watershed management--South Asia.
- Watershed management.
- Water resources development--Environmental aspects--South Asia.
- Water resources development.
- Water-supply--Government policy--South Asia.
- Water-supply--International cooperation.
- Integrated water development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (404 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has become the international label for the 'new approach' to water resources management. This volume, and in fact the entire series, investigates how this global concept resonates with regional, national and local concerns in South Asia. This is the first volume in a new series under the aegis of the South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs) and explains the IWRM. This volume begins by tracking the emergence of IWRM as a central notion in water debates. It then discusses the European experience with IWRM in the
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Note; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Boxes; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; IWRM in South Asia: A Concept Looking for a Constituency; IWRM: The New Sanctioned Discourse?; Solving Problems of 'Fit' at the Expense of Problems of 'Interplay'? The Spatial Reorganisation of Water Management following the EU Water Framework Directive; Limits to Leapfrogging: Issues in Transposing Successful River Basin Management Institutions in the Developing World; Criteria for a Holistic Framework for Water Systems Management in India
- Water-Land Linkages: A Relatively Neglected Issue in IWRMWater Balance Studies and Hydrological Modelling for IWRM; Water Allocation between Agriculture and Hydropower: A Case Study of Kalthota Irrigation Scheme, Sri Lanka; Inter/Intra-Sector Coordination as a Means to IWRM: The Case of Sri Lanka; Approaching IWRM through Multi-Stakeholders' Dialogue: Some Experiences from South India; Water Transfers Out of Agriculture: Towards a Win-Win Solution? A Case Study of Thuruwila, Sri Lanka
- Asserting the Rights of the Toiling Peasantry for Water Use: The Movement of the Dam Oustees and the Drought-Affected Toilers in South MaharashtraAbout the Editors and Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-054-0
- 1-282-15411-7
- 9786612154119
- 81-321-0282-7
- OCLC:
- 436076546
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