River basin trajectories
Subtitle: societies, environments and development
By: edited by François Molle and Philippus Wester.
Contributors: Molle, François.; Wester, Philippus.; C.A.B. International.
Series: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture -- no. 8; Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series -- 8.
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845935382
Subjects: Water resources development -- Case studies; Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: River basin trajectories: an inquiry into changing waterscapes / François Molle and Philippus Wester; title: Squeezed dry: the historical trajectory of the lower Jordan river basin / Mauro Van Aken, François Molle and Jean-Philippe Venot; title: Are good intentions leading to good outcomes? Continuities in social, economic and hydro-political trajectories in the Olifants river basin, South Africa / Doug Merrey, Hervé Levite and Barbara van Koppen; title: From half full to half empty: the hydraulic mission and water over-exploitation in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester ... [et al.]; title: Managing the Yellow River: continuity and change / David Pietz and Mark Giordano; title: The Colorado River: what prospect for 'a river no more'? / Doug Kenney; title: Sharing scarce resources in a Mediterranean river basin: wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia / Patrick Legoulven ... [et al.]; title: Water competition, variability and river basin governance: a critical analysis of the great Ruaha river, Tanzania / Bruce Lankford, Siza Tumbo and Kossa Rajabu; title: Buying respite: Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud river basin, Iran / François Molle, Iran Ghazi and Hammond Murray-Rust; title: Rural dynamics and new challenges in the Indian water sector: trajectory of the Krishna basin, south India / Jean-Philippe Venot; title: Pumped out: basin closure and farmer adaptations in the Bhavani basin in southern India / Mats Lannerstad and David Molden; title: Much ado about the Murray river: the drama of restraining water use / Hugh Turral, Daniel Connell and Jennifer McKay.