1st Edition

River Basin Management in the Twenty-First Century Understanding People and Place

544 Pages 11 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations

by CRC Press

542 Pages

by CRC Press

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Description

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... Read more

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