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  • - River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes
    av Germany) Schmeier & Susanne (GIZ
    846 - 2 450,-

  • av Melissa McCracken
    626 - 1 860,-

  • - Beyond the public and private sector debate
     
    2 210,-

    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
    av Indonesia) Al'Afghani & Mohamad Mova (Universitas Ibn Khaldun Bogor
    676 - 2 256,-

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    2 036,-

    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
    av Australia) Haefner & Andrea (Griffith University
    660 - 2 096,-

  • av Fleur Johns, Ben Saul, Ben Boer, m.fl.
    670 - 1 900,-

  • - Integrating Science and Governance
     
    2 036,-

    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
    av the Netherlands, Peru) Boelens, Rutgerd (Wageningen University & m.fl.
    800 - 2 210,-

  • - Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
    av USA) Norman & Emma S. (Northwest Indian College
    756 - 2 136,-

  • - Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives
     
    2 030,-

    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
     
    2 450,-

    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
     
    756,-

    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
     
    1 900,-

    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.

  • - The Life-Cycle Cost Approach to Planning and Management
    av India) Livelihoods & Natural Resource Managment Institute (Hyderabad
    2 280,-

    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.

  • - Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics
    av Surrey, UK) Charalambous & Andreas N. (Hydrolaw Ltd
    716 - 2 116,-

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

  • - Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
     
    2 100,-

    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.

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    2 100,-

    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
    av Troy, USA) Abukhater & Ahmed (Pitney Bowes Business Insight
    706 - 2 116,-

  • av Bjorn-Oliver Magsig
    2 030,-

    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.

  • - Governance and the sustainability dilemma in global cities
    av Y.S. Frederick (The University of Hong Kong Lee
    1 390,-

    Increased urbanization coupled with demand for water has placed the provision of a sustainable supply of clean water high on the agenda for large cities. The approach of this book is to describe and compare various contexts in a range of global cities, reviewing different approaches and perspectives that examine key urban water governance issues.

  • - Social and Environmental Implications for a Globalized Economy
     
    2 116,-

    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.

  • - Law, Human Rights and Community Action for Water Security
    av Nathan John (Lincoln University Cooper
    1 680,-

    This book raises serious questions about the effectiveness of a human right to water in combating water poverty and ensuring justice.

  • - International Studies on Contextual Water Management
     
    2 136,-

    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
     
    2 036,-

    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
     
    2 200,-

    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
     
    730,-

    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
     
    1 970,-

  • - Conservation and Management
     
    746,-

    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
    av Yumiko (University of Dundee Yasuda
    2 036,-

    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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