Managing water resources past and present
By: edited by Julie Trottier and Paul Slack.
Contributors: Trottier, Julie.; Slack, Paul.
Series: The Linacre lectures -- 2002; Linacre lecture -- 2002.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Water resources development; Water-supply -- Management
Description: "Managing Water Resources, Past and Present is a multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive, the British experience of water management, the over-exploitation of African aquifers, and the evolution of the water situation in Southern Africa are all examined." "This volume underlines the fact that only an integrative and interdisciplinary understanding can lead to genuinely improved water management practices that will not benefit some social groups at the expense of others."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Silent springs : groundwater resources under threat / W.M. Edmunds; title: Water in Mediterranean history / Peregrine Horden; title: The development of American water resources : planners, politicians, and constitutional interpretation / Martin Reuss; title: Managing water for the future : the case of England and Wales / Ian Byatt; title: Water for Europe : the creation of the European Water Framework Directive / Maria Kaika; title: Water laws for water security in the twenty-first century / Stefano Burchi; title: Water and conflicts, Hobbes v. Ibn Khaldun : the real clash of civilizations? / Julie Trottier; title: Water and development : a southern African perspective / Peter Ashton.