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Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Interventions is the outcome of a multi-disciplinary research team of social scientists, hydrologists (groundwater and surface water), modellers; and bio-physical scientists who have worked together over five years to develop an integrated model of the sustainability of biophysical, economic and social impacts of watersheds. Impacts of watershed interventions are assessed at upstream, mid-stream and downstream locations of two hydrological units that are characterised with differential bio-physical attributes. The editors propose that watersh

Watershed management. --- Watershed management --- Soil conservation. --- Economic aspects.

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Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management is a much-needed text for water resources managers, water, catchment, estuarine and coastal scientists, and aquatic ecologists. The book first provides a summary of the Murray-Darling River system: its hydrology, water-related ecological assets, land uses (particularly irrigation), and its rural and regional communities; and management within the Basin, including catchments and natural resources, water resources, irrigation, environment, and monitoring and evaluation. Additionally, the recent major water reforms in the Basin are discussed, with a focus particularly on the development and implementation of the Basin Plan. Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management then provides an analysis of the next set of policy and institutional reforms (environmental, social, cultural and economic) needed to ensure the Basin is managed as an integrated system (including its water resources, catchment and estuary) capable of adapting to future changes. Six major challenges facing the Basin are identified and discussed, particularly within the context of predicted changes to the climate leading to an increased frequency of drought and a hotter and dryer future. Finally, a 'road map' or 'blueprint' to achieve more integrated management of the Basin is provided, together with some 'key lessons' of relevance to others involved in the management of multijurisdictional river Basins.

Watershed management --- Watersheds --- Environmental management --- Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.).

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The United States faces a water crisis as critical as the energy crisis that once dominated headlines. Like the energy crisis, a solution can be found. Pat Mulroy, for many years general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the lead negotiator on the Colorado River for the State of Nevada, and a Brookings fellow, has gathered a number of practitioners and scholars to show us why we face a crisis caused by climate change and what we can do to alleviate it. While the focus recently has been on California, with its water restrictions and drought, many other parts of the United States are also suffering from current and potential water shortages that will only be exacerbated by climate change. The Water Problem takes us to Miami and the problem of rising oceans fouling freshwater reservoirs; Kansas and Nebraska, where intensive farming is draining age-old aquifers; and to the Southwest United States, where growing populations are creating enormous stresses on the already strained Colorado River. Mulroy and her contributors explore not just the problems, but also what we can do now to put in place measures to deal with a very real crisis.

Meteorology. Climatology --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- United States of America --- Watershed management --- Water resources development --- Water quality management --- Water-supply --- Climatic changes --- Effect of global warming on

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Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Regional documentation --- Noord-Brabant (Prov.) --- Polders --- Water quality management --- Watershed management --- History. --- Watershed development --- Watersheds --- Ecosystem management --- Water quality --- Water quality control --- Management --- Sewage disposal --- Water conservation --- Water-supply --- Reclamation of land --- Special districts --- History --- Noord-Brabant [province]

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The Contested Floodplain explains how institutional change in the African floodplain wetlands of Zambia (Kafue Flats) caused the area's resource management to fail. This work combines New Institutionalism approaches (predicated on notions of power and ideology) with political ecology and findings from local ecological studies, extending its appeal to scholars in African and environmental studies. It includes an in-depth social anthropological analysis of agro-pastoral and fishermen communities and also a foreword by Dr. Elizabeth Cols

Water resources development --- Floodplain management --- Natural resources, Communal --- Management. --- Kafue Flats (Zambia) --- Economic conditions. --- Communal natural resources --- Community-owned natural resources --- Flood plain management --- Management of flood plains --- Management of floodplains --- Collective settlements --- Commons --- Public lands --- Village communities --- Floodplains --- Watershed management --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Kafue River Valley (Zambia) --- Sociology of environment --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- anno 1900-1999 --- Zambia