1st Edition
River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century Understanding People and Place
Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources. Management of the rivers and the surrounding landscape is one of the important tasks for today and for the foreseeable future. Lessons learned from centuries of management (and mismanagement) have been distilled into principles and practices which form the subject matter for this book. It provides both a global perspective and an entrée to the special problems associated with management of transboundary rivers.
River Basins: what are they and why do we study them?
Terminology, definitions,
Importance and implications for mismanagement
Considerations for groundwater
River basins of the world’s mid latitude regions
Overview - by Continent
Transboundary rivers: a special case
Case studies on representative basins (outlining problems and prospects)
Blue Nile
Yellow river
Tigris Euphrates etc
Jordan
Orange River, RSA/Namibia
Murray Darling
US rivers
Legislative and policy issues in Basin management
Legal prescription v. local reality
Examples of best practice?
What is generally accepted best practice?
Cultural viewpoints
Experience with “best practice”: how transferable is it?
Implementation issues
Education and extension
Capacity development
Key word Index
Biography
Squires, Victor Roy; Milner, Hugh Martin; Daniell, Katherine Anne