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Land, Water and Development - Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers (Paperback, 3rd)
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Land, Water and Development - Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers (Paperback, 3rd)
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Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis.
Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of
human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing
essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated with
improving our management of fresh water take the potential remedies
out of the hands of simple, local, hard engineering and into much
larger units - the basin, the ecosystem and the global context, and
also require longer term perspectives. The Third Edition follows
the same structure as its predecessors, presenting the historical
and scientific backgrounds to land-water interactions and
establishing the links with development processes and policies.
Throughout, its two major messages are that our new philosophy
should be one of 'humans in the ecosystem' and that the guidance
from science, being uncertain and contested, must be
operationalized in a participatory system of governance based on
participation. Following a review of progress towards these
elements in the developed world, the international case studies
update the situation in the developing world following the
Millennium Development Goals, our new emphasis on poverty and on
global food supplies. This book covers the multitude of scientific
research findings, development of 'tools' and spatial/temporal
scale challenges which have emerged in the last decade. Tensions
are highlighted in the current and future role of large dams,
country studies are retained (and considerably updated) and
development contexts are explored in greater depth as a dividing
line in capacity to cope with land and water stress. "Technical
issues" have been expanded to cover major droughts, environmental
flows and the restoration of rivers and wetlands. A separate
chapter picks up these themes under terms of their relationship
with uncertainty and the widespread perception that a new ethos of
adaptive management is needed in the water sector. For students of
geography, environmental science, hydrology, and development
studies this innovative edition provides a reasoned, academic basis
of evidence for sustainable, adaptive management of rivers and
related large-scale ecosystems using more than 600 new sources. It
will also prove invaluable for lecturers and practitioners.
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