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Water Governance
Edited by Asanga Gunawansa, Lovleen Bhullar
This insightful book explores urban water governance challenges in different parts of the world and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of publicly run, privatized, and public–private partnership managed water facilities.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...eBook:Find out more$36.76
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International Law and Freshwater
Edited by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Christina Leb, Mara Tignino
International Law and Freshwater connects recent legal developments through the breadth and synergies of a multidisciplinary analysis. It addresses such critical issues as water security, the right to water, international cooperation and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Water Accounting
Edited by Jayne M. Godfrey, Keryn Chalmers
One of the most pressing global issues of the 21st century is the scarcity of water of a quantity appropriate to ensure economic, environmental and social sustainability. In addressing the issue through policy and management, of critical...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Water Policy Reform
Edited by John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Sarah Chambers
Agriculture in the Murray–Darling Basin of Australia represents a controversial ‘policy experiment’ comprising large capital investments, innovation and enterprise across a hundred-year period. This book, which contains contributions fro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Modern Cost–Benefit Analysis of Hydropower Conflicts
Edited by Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström
This important book sheds light on the ways in which modern tools of welfare economics can be used to assess the benefits and costs of resource conflicts involving hydropower. The chapters highlight key methodological issues in this area...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries
P. B. Anand
P.B. Anand argues that if water supply and sanitation were mainly problems of technology or financial resources, they would have been resolved long ago. While appreciating that technology and finances are important, he ascertains that th...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Governance and Complexity in Water Management
Edited by Hans Bressers, Kris Lulofs
The premise of this book is that careful reconsideration of strategies to achieve water management ambitions, together with more in-depth knowledge on the theories and practices of boundary spanning, could bring solutions for contemporar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making
Edited by Clifford S. Russell, Duane D. Baumann
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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The Law and Governance of Water Resources
Douglas Fisher
This path-breaking book focuses on the law and legal doctrine within the wider policy context of water resources and analyses the concept of sustainability. -
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Economic Valuation of River Systems
Edited by Fred J. Hitzhusen
The book applies benefit–cost analysis and a wide array of non-market and distribution economic valuation methods in ecologic context to determine the pay-off and distribution impacts of various infrastructure and water quality improveme...eBook:Find out more$62.36
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Conflict, Cooperation and Institutions in International Water Management
Ines Dombrowsky
This book asks under which conditions cooperation is in the interest of the riparian countries sharing international waters, and how institutions must be designed to realize potential gains of cooperation.eBook:Find out more$40.00