The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook.

The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook.

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mysiak, Jaroslav
Other Authors: Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, Sullivan, Caroline, Bromley, John, Lloyd, Gareth James, Henrikson, Hans Jorgen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Earthscan, 2009.
Subjects:
Water > Distribution > Planning > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Water-supply engineering > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Adaptive natural resource management > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Water resources development > Government policy > Case studies.
Adaptive natural resource management
Water resources development > Government policy
Water-supply engineering
Case studies
Handbooks and manuals
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Contributor Affiliations; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Making a Strong Case for AWM; Chapter 2 Working Towards AWM; Chapter 3 Tools and Instruments for Adaptive Management; Chapter 4 Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer; Chapter 5 The Elbe Case Study; Chapter 6 The Guadiana Basin; Chapter 7 Rhine River Basin; Chapter 8 Tisza River Basin; Chapter 9 The Amudarya River Basin; Chapter 10 Nile River Basin; Chapter 11 The Orange River Basin; Chapter 12 Summary and outlook; Index.

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