1st Edition
Integrated Water Resources Management From concept to implementation
Preface 1. Introduction: IWRM revisited: from concept to implementation 2. From IWRM back to integrated water resources management 3. A new paradigm for water? A comparative review of integrated, adaptive and ecosystem-based water management in the Anthropocene 4. Overcoming the land – water disconnect in water-scarce regions: time for IWRM to go contemporary 5. Integrated water resources management: unified process or debate forum? 6. Can integrated water resource management be of value to business, specifically the oil and gas sector? 7. Integrated water resources management: horizontal and vertical explorations and the ‘water in all policies’ approach 8. IWRM in England: bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up implementation 9. Integrated water resource management: lessons from conservation authorities in Ontario, Canada 10. Simulation modelling for water governance in basins 11. Too much of a good thing? Building social capital through knowledge transfer and collaborative networks in the southern Philippines 12. Evaluating IWRM implementation success: are water policies in Bangladesh enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change impacts? 13. The politics of IWRM in Southern Africa 14. Moving beyond integrated water resource management: developmental water management in South Africa 15. Legislative and institutional reforms for water resources management in Ghana 16. Assessment of water resources management in the Ethiopian Central Rift Valley: environmental conservation and poverty reduction 17. From principles to localized implementation: villagers’ experiences of IWRM in the Shiyang River basin, Northwest China 18. Supporting IWRM through spatial integrated assessment in the Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya
Biography
Cecilia Tortajada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and former President of the International Water Resources Association.
