Land, Water and Development: Sustainable Management of River Basin SystemsThis is a fully revised and expanded second edition of Malcolm Newson's acclaimed book. Exploring in greater depth the meaning of sustainability in river basin development this new edition: * highlights the rapid evolution of practical concepts since the Rio Earth Summit * features new illustrations and case studies from Australia, South Africa and Israel * makes the ecosystem model more explicit throughout * strengthens coverage of the linkages between land and water management. |
Contents
1 History of river basin management | 1 |
transfer systems | 23 |
interactions | 57 |
an international survey | 99 |
5 River basins and development | 151 |
6 Technical issues in river basin management | 214 |
7 Institutional issues in river basin management | 281 |
issues of the knowledge base | 321 |
towards systems of management in a period of change | 351 |
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Other editions - View all
Land, Water and Development: Sustainable Management of River Basin Systems Malcolm Newson Limited preview - 2002 |
Land, Water and Development: Sustainable Management of River Basin Systems Malcolm David Newson No preview available - 1997 |
Common terms and phrases
activity agencies agricultural applied approach areas assessment Authority Bangladesh become catchment cent channel Chapter clearly climatic communities conservation considered countries cover critical crops cultural damage dams developing world downstream drainage economic ecosystem effects engineering environment environmental erosion example Figure flood floodplain flow forest functions further groundwater human hydrological impact important improve increasing industry influence institutions integrated interests involved irrigation issues knowledge land land-use loss major measurements natural Nile operation patterns planning political pollution population practical problems processes production protection rainfall rates recent regional regulation relation reservoir response restoration result river basin management role runoff scale schemes sediment social soil sources storage stream structures studies successful surface sustainable Table transfer transport urban valley variability water resources water supply zones