Federal rivers : managing water in multi-layered political systems /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Garrick, Dustin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : London : Edward Elgar ; IWA Pub. Alliance House, [2014]
Subjects:	Watershed management > Government policy > Congresses. Federal government > Congresses. Water-supply > Management > Government policy > Congresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Table of conversions; Contributors; Preface; PART I INTRODUCTION; 1. Federal rivers: a critical overview of water governance challenges in federal systems; 2. Climate adaptation in river management in a post-stationary world; PART II AMERICAS; 3. Federalism and US water policy; 4. Water scarcity, conflict resolution, and adaptive governance in federal transboundary river basins; 5. Managing water in a federal state: the Canadian experience; 6. Resilience of river basin governance institutions in the Saskatchewan River Basin of Western Canada.
7. Water management and ecosystems: a new framework in Mexico8. Main challenges and responses to federalism and water security in Brazil; PART III EUROPE
THE SPANISH EXPERIENCE; 9. River basin governance and water policies in Spain; 10. Between a rock and a hard place: redefining water security under decentralization in Spain; PART IV SOUTHERN AFRICA; 11. Allocating powers and functions in a federal design: the experience of South Africa.
12. Meeting the challenges of equityand sustainability in complex anduncertain worlds: the emergenceof integrated water resourcesmanagement in the eastern rivers ofSouth AfricaPART V SOUTH ASIA; 13. Managing water in India's federal framework; 14. The hydro-institutional challengeof managing water economies of federal rivers: a case study of Narmada River Basin, India; 15. Inter-jurisdictional watermanagement in Pakistan's Indus Basin; PART VI CHINA; 16. China's political system, economic reform and the governance of water quality in the Pearl River Basin.
17. Watershed management in Tai Lake Basin in China18. China's federal river management
the example of the Han River; PART VII AUSTRALIA; 19. The Murray-Darling Basin; PART VIII CONCLUSIONS; 20. Water security in cross-border regions: what relevance for federal human security regimes?; 21. Water resources management in federal systems; Index.