Integrated water resources management in the 21st century: revisiting the paradigm
By: editors Pedro Martinez-Santos & Maite M. Aldaya, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, M. Ramón Llamas ; Complutense University and Water Observatory at the Marcelino Botin Foundation, Madrid, Spain, editorial assistant Laurens A.D.R. Thuy, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Water Observatory, Marcelino Botin Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781138001435
Subjects: Water; Water-supply; Government policy; Integrated water development; Management; Case studies
Notes: "A BALKEMA BOOK."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 Introduction and international perspectives; title: 1.Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): The international experience / M. Ait Kadi; title: 2.Integrated Water Resources Management: State of the art and the way forward / M.R. Llamas; title: 3.Non-Integrated Water Resources Management / T. Shah; title: 4.Contemporary responses to water management challenges / X. Leflaive; title: 5.Water policy, agricultural trade and WTO rules / L. Tamiotti; title: SECTION 2 Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons learnt in Spain; title: 6.Virtual water trade, food security and sustainability: Lessons from Latin America and Spain / A. Garrido; title: 7.Ten years of the Water Framework Directive in Spain: An overview of the ecological and chemical status of surface water bodies / N. Hernandez-Mora; title: 8.Intensive groundwater use in agriculture and IWRM: An impossible marriage? / P. Martinez-Santos; title: Contents note continued: 9.Future Institutions? On the evolution in Spanish institutions from policy takers to policy makers / F. Villarroya; title: 10.Urban water, an essential part of Integrated Water Resources Management / E. Custodio; title: SECTION 3 Selected case studies on Integrated Water Resources Management; title: 11.Integrated water resources in Peru; title: The long road ahead / J.I. Montenegro; title: 12.Integrated water management in Chile / G. Donoso; title: 13.Towards IWRM in the upper Guadiana basin, Spain / J.A.R. Cabellos; title: 14.Water resource vulnerability & adaptation management to climate change & human activity in North China / J. Xia; title: 15.Blue water transfer versus virtual water transfer in China; title: with a focus on the South-North Water Transfer Project / J.G. Liu; title: 16.The institutional organization of irrigation in Spain and other Mediterranean countries / E. Lopez-Gunn.