Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to water resource management, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
1st Edition
Edited
By Leila M. Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin, Christopher Sneddon
April 21, 2016
The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from ...
Transferable Groundwater Rights: Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics
1st Edition
By Andreas N. Charalambous
April 21, 2016
The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is ...
The Mekong: A Socio-legal Approach to River Basin Development
1st Edition
By Ben Boer, Philip Hirsch, Fleur Johns, Ben Saul, Natalia Scurrah
November 04, 2015
An international river basin is an ecological system, an economic thoroughfare, a geographical area, a font of life and livelihoods, a geopolitical network and, often, a cultural icon. It is also a socio-legal phenomenon. This book is the first detailed study of an international river basin from a ...
Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate
1st Edition
By Anton Earle, Ana Elisa Cascao, Stina Hansson, Anders Jägerskog, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
June 01, 2015
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as ...
Governing International Watercourses: River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes
1st Edition
By Susanne Schmeier
May 21, 2015
This book focuses on River Basin Organizations as the key institutions for managing internationally shared water resources. This includes a comparative analysis of all River Basin Organizations worldwide and three in-depth case studies from three different continents. The detailed case studies are ...
Water Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By M. Dinesh Kumar, M.V.K. Sivamohan, Nitin Bassi
May 21, 2015
This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies. The book focuses primarily on India, a fast developing economy, whose natural resource base comprising land and water supporting agricultural production is not only under enormous stress, but also ...
Water Scarcity, Livelihoods and Food Security: Research and Innovation for Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Larry W. Harrington, Myles J. Fisher
October 07, 2014
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. ...
Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services: The Life-Cycle Cost Approach to Planning and Management
1st Edition
By Livelihoods & Natural Resource Managment Institute, International Water & Sanitation Centre, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Watershed Support Services & Activities Network
February 13, 2014
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 ...