River basin trajectories: societies, environments and development

✍ Scribed by François Molle, Philippus Wester

• Publisher: CABI
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Series: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture 8
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using a variety of case studies, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully. Discussing how and why particular options are selected, and why a particular course of events eventually prevails, the book stresses the importance of context and a multidisciplinary approach in moving towards sustainable and equitable development.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Series Foreword......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 River Basin Trajectories: an Inquiry into Changing Waterscapes......Page 16
2 Squeezed Dry: the Historical Trajectory of the Lower Jordan River Basin......Page 35
3 Are Good Intentions Leading to Good Outcomes? Continuities in Social, Economic and Hydro-political Trajectories in the Olifants River Basin, South Africa......Page 62
4 From Half-full to Half-empty: the Hydraulic Mission and Water Overexploitation in the Lerma–Chapala Basin, Mexico......Page 90
5 Managing the Yellow River: Continuity and Change......Page 114
6 The Colorado River: What Prospect for ‘a River No More’?......Page 138
7 Sharing Scarce Resources in a Mediterranean River Basin: Wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia......Page 162
8 Water Competition, Variability and River Basin Governance: a Critical Analysis of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania......Page 186
9 Buying Respite: Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud River Basin, Iran......Page 211
10 Rural Dynamics and New Challenges in the Indian Water Sector: the Trajectory of the Krishna Basin, South India......Page 229
11 Pumped Out: Basin Closure and Farmer Adaptations in the Bhavani Basin in Southern India......Page 253
12 Much Ado about the Murray: the Drama of Restraining Water Use......Page 278
A......Page 308
C......Page 309
D......Page 312
E......Page 313
G......Page 314
I......Page 315
L......Page 317
M......Page 318
P......Page 319
R......Page 320
S......Page 322
U......Page 324
W......Page 325
Z......Page 326