Federal rivers
Subtitle: managing water in multi-layered political systems
By: edited by Dustin Garrick, George R.M. Anderson, Daniel Connell, Jamie Pittock
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781781955048
Subjects: Water resources development; Case studies; Water-supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Federal rivers : a critical overview of water governance challenges in federal systems  -- Dustin Garrick, George Anderson, Daniel Connell and Jamie Pittock; title: Climate adaption in river management in a post-stationary world  -- Jamie Pittock; title: Federalism and US water policy  -- Andrea K. Gerlak; title: Water scarcity, conflict resolution, and adaptive governance in federal transboundary river basins  -- Edella Schlanger and Tanya Heikkila; title: Managing water in a federal sate : the Canadian experience  -- J. Owen Saunders; title: Resilience of river basin governance institutions in the Saskatchewan River Basin of Western Canada  -- Ted Horbulyk; title: Water management and ecosystems : a new framework in Mexico  -- Eugenio Barrios; title: Main challenges and responses to federalism and water security in Brazil  -- Ana Carolina Coelho, Benedito Braga, Rodrigo Flecha, Nelson Freitas and Osman F. da Silva; title: River basin governance and water polices in Spain  -- José Albiac, Elena Calvo and Encarna Esteban; title: Between a rock and a hard place : redefining water security under decentralization in Spain  -- Elena López-Gunn and Lucia De Stefano; title: Allocating powers and functions in a federal design : the experience of South Africa  -- Mike Muller; title: Meeting the challenges of equity and sustainability in complex and uncertain worlds : the emergence of integrated water resources management in the eastern rivers of South Africa  -- Sharon Pollard and Derick du Toit; title: Managing water in India's federal framework  -- Rakesh Hooja; title: The hydro-institutional challenge of managing water economics of federal rivers : a case study of Narmada River Basin, India  -- M. Dinesh Kumar; title: Inter-jurisdictional water management in Pakistan's Indus Basin  -- Shahid Ahmad, Khalid Aziz, and Mujib Khan; title: China's political system, economic reform and the governance of water quality in the Pearl River Basin  -- Andre Silveira; title: Watershed management in Tai Lake Basin in China  -- Ke Jian; title: The Murray-Darling Basin  -- Daniel Connell; title: Water security in cross-border regions : what relevance for federal human security regimes?  -- Carmen Maganda and Harlan Koff; title: Water resources management in federal systems -- George Anderson.