Integrated water resources management in the 21st century : revisiting the paradigm /: revisiting the paradigm. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Pedro Martinez-Santos, Maite M. Aldaya, Ramón Llamas.
• Other Names: Martínez Santos, Pedro editor of compilation.; Aldaya, Maite M editor of compilation.; Llamas, Manuel Ramón editor of compilation.
• Contents: Foreword; About the Water Observatory of the Botín Foundation SECTION 1; Introduction and international perspectives 1 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): The international experience; M. Ait Kadi 2 Integrated Water Resources Management: State of the art and the way forward; P. Martínez-Santos, M.M. Aldaya & M.R. Llamas 3 Non-Integrated Water Resources Management; M. Giordano & T. Shah 4 Contemporary responses to water management challenges; X. Leflaive 5 Water policy, agricultural trade and WTO rules; L.A. Jackson, C. Pene, M.-B. Martinez-Hommel, C. Hofmann & L. Tamiotti ; SECTION 2; Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons learnt in Spain 6 Virtual water trade, food security and sustainability: Lessons from Latin America and Spain; D. Chico, M.M. Aldaya, I. Flachsbarth & A. Garrido 7 Ten years of the Water Framework Directive in Spain: An overview of the ecological and chemical status of surface water bodies; B.A. Willaarts, M. Ballesteros & N. Hernández-Mora 8 Intensive groundwater use in agriculture and IWRM: An impossible marriage?; L. De Stefano, E. López-Gunn & P. Martínez-Santos 9 Future Institutions? On the evolution in Spanish institutions from policy takers to policy makers; E. López-Gunn, G. Huelva, L. De Stefano & F. Villarroya 10 Urban water, an essential part of Integrated Water Resources Management; E. Cabrera & E. Custodio ; SECTION 3; Selected case studies on Integrated Water Resources Management 11 Integrated water resources in Peru – The long road ahead; A.J.M. Kuroiwa, L.F. Castro, M.N. Lucen & J.I. Montenegro 12 Integrated water management in Chile; G. Donoso 13 Towards IWRM in the upper Guadiana basin, Spain; J.Á.R. Cabellos 14 Water resource vulnerability & adaptation management to climate change & human activity in North China; J. Xia 15 Blue water transfer versus virtual water transfer in China – with a focus on the South-North Water Transfer Project; H. Yang, Y. Zhou & J.G. Liu 16 The institutional organization of irrigation in Spain and other Mediterranean countries; L.A.D.R. Thuy, J. Valero de Palma & E. López-Gunn Index;
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (322 pages), (70 illustrations)
• Subjects: 333.91; Integrated water development -- Management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315794099; 1315794098
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