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Books in the Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management series

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  • - The Life-Cycle Cost Approach to Planning and Management
    by India) Livelihoods & Natural Resource Managment Institute (Hyderabad
    £137.49

    Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle cost approach to assessing allocations.

  • - Hydropower Development on the Mekong River
    by Yumiko (University of Dundee Yasuda
    £42.99

    This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two NGO coalitions advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower dam on the Mekong River.

  • - Challenges and new investments
     
    £132.99

    This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin.

  • - Epistemologies, Practices and Locales
     
    £123.99

    With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another, and thereby to reveal the diverse ways in which human activity affects the planet.

  • - Beyond the public and private sector debate
     
    £137.49

    This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water regime debate, by focusing on the results of these types of initiatives to provide better water services, particularly in urban settings.

  • - A comparative perspective
    by Indonesia) Al'Afghani & Mohamad Mova (Universitas Ibn Khaldun Bogor
    £41.99 - 132.99

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    £132.99

    Focusing on the concept of trans-jurisdictional water governance the book diagnoses barriers and identifies pathways to coherent and coordinated institutional arrangements between and across different bodies of laws at local, national, regional and international levels.

  • - Bridging Transboundary River Basins
    by Australia) Haefner & Andrea (Griffith University
    £41.99 - 137.49

  • by Fleur Johns, Ben Saul, Ben Boer, et al.
    £42.99 - 123.99

  • - Integrating Science and Governance
     
    £132.99

    The central focus of this book is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. Through a series of case studies it is shown how decision-making and implementation at the appropriate geographic and governmental scales can resolve conflicts and share best sustainable practices.

  • - The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes
    by the Netherlands, Peru) Boelens, Rutgerd (Wageningen University & et al.
    £50.99 - 137.49

  • - Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
    by USA) Norman & Emma S. (Northwest Indian College
    £47.49 - 132.99

  • - Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives
     
    £132.99

    This book aims to provide a basin-wide analysis of the political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin.

  • - Capacity, Equity and Sustainability
     
    £132.99

    This book analyzes evidence from river basins around the world and identifies common barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate change through water resources management. Case studies are included from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. All chapters consider the crosscutting themes of institutional capacity, equity, and sustainability.

  • - Research and Innovation for Development
     
    £47.49

    This volume reviews the evolution of ten years¿ learning and discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. It draws on the experiences of over 100 projects conducted in ten river basins in the developing world.

  • - Research and Innovation for Development
     
    £123.99

    This volume reviews the evolution of ten years¿ learning and discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. It draws on the experiences of over 100 projects conducted in ten river basins in the developing world.

  • - Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
     
    £137.49

    This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally¿scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally.

  • - Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics
    by Surrey, UK) Charalambous & Andreas N. (Hydrolaw Ltd
    £45.49 - 132.99

    Originally presented as the author's thesis (LLM)--University of Dundee, Scotland.

  • - River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes
    by Germany) Schmeier & Susanne (GIZ
    £50.99 - 132.99

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    £137.49

    India is a fast developing economy whose natural resource base, comprising land and water supporting agricultural production, are not only under enormous stress, but also complex and not amenable to a uniform strategy. This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in India, including lessons to be learned in other developing economies across the world.

  • - Transboundary Water Management and Conflict Resolution
    by Troy, USA) Abukhater & Ahmed (Pitney Bowes Business Insight
    £43.49 - 132.99

  • by Bjorn-Oliver Magsig
    £132.99

    This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which must be addressed by international law: availability; access; adaptability; and ambit.

  • - Social and Environmental Implications for a Globalized Economy
     
    £132.99

    This volume addresses fundamental issues surrounding water management and food security in the rapidly developing Latin America and Caribbean region. It focuses on four key themes: setting out the background to water, nature and food in the region; drivers of changing conditions; pressures and challenges; and responses and enabling conditions.

  • - International Studies on Contextual Water Management
     
    £132.99

    In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. This book aims to create a better understanding of such transfers in the water management sector.

  • - Access, conflict and identity
     
    £132.99

    This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another.

  • - Challenges for Sustainable Development
     
    £132.99

    Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. This work reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management.

  • - Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives
     
    £45.49

    This book aims to provide a basin-wide analysis of the political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin.

  • - Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity
     
    £123.99

  • - Conservation and Management
     
    £47.49

    Rather than a marginal part of protected area management, this book shows that freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for conserving inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas (PAs), including rivers, wetlands, swamps, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries.

  • - Hydropower Development on the Mekong River
    by Yumiko (University of Dundee Yasuda
    £132.99

    This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two NGO coalitions advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower dam on the Mekong River.

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