Books in the Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance series

This volume examines the long-term effects on populations forced to resettle by dam development projects, providing an overview of ten case studies carried out across Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Describes China's approach to allocating and managing its water resources. This book looks at China's development of a water rights, including the introduction of basin planning, environmental flows, and water trading.

The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much as - or even more than - hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.

The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much as - or even more than - hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.

Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.

A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate.

Analyzes the legal development of the concept of water as a human right; its implications for the national governments, as well as the impact of the implementation of this concept for international and national organizations.

This pioneering analysis from Latin America conclusively shows that not only IWRM has been unsuccessful in the past, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. Thus, a new paradigm for water management is urgently needed.

Contains a Preface by Asit K Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada. This book includes contributions from Olli Varis: Megacities Development and Water; Anthony Turton: Hydropolitics of Johannesburg; Dogan Altinbilek: Water Management in Megacities: Case Study of Istanbul; Walid Abderrahman: Urban Water Management in Arriyadh City, Saudi Arabia; and others.

Addresses the many issues associated with water and disasters. This title is a global survey - and assessment of the causes, consequences and post-recovery policies - concerning water disasters. It features a discussion of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, as well as major floods and droughts in England, Wales, China and the western United States.

This book considers the magnitudes, nature and extent of the present and future challenges and how these could be meet in socially acceptable and cost-effective ways.

Providing an objective assessment of what does and does not work, where, why and in which circumstances, this informative collection assesses the social, economic, equity and institutional implications of water pricing and public-private partnership.

The book provides comprehensive coverage of the complexities, constraints and challenges associated with managing water quality in Asia. The immense related problems can only be resolved with concurrent political will, public demand, functional institutional and legal frameworks, as well as availability of technological know-how and investment funds.