Water Resources Planning and Management

Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever published on water resource issues. It brings together multiple disciplines to understand and help resolve problems of water quality and scarcity from a global perspective. Its case studies and 'foundation' chapters will be greatly valued by students, researchers and professionals involved in water resources, hydrology, governance and public policy, law, economics, geography and environmental studies.

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Understanding 'Water'
Climate change and the global water cycle
Understanding global hydrology
Groundwater and surface water connectivity
Understanding the basics of water quality
Inland water ecosystems
Water, biodiversity and ecosystems: reducing our impact
Global food production in a water constrained world: exploring 'green' and 'blue' challenges and solutions
Water Resources Planning and Management
Water law and the search for sustainability: a comparative analysis
Tackling the global water crisis: unlocking international law as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world's shared transboundary waters - introducing 'the H2O paradigm'
Risk and uncertainty in water resources planning and management: a basic introduction
Collaboration and stakeholder engagement
Capacity building and knowledge sharing
Adaptive and integrated management of water resources
Gender and integrated water resource management
Environmental flows: achieving ecological outcomes in variable environments
Water Resources Planning and Management - Case Studies
Water and Waste Water Treatment
Overcoming water scarcity in Perth, Western Australia
Cities, agriculture and environment - sharing water in and around Hyderabad, South India
Pricing of urban water services: the case of France
Collaborative flood and drought risk management in the Upper Iskar Basin, Bulgaria
Agricultural Water Use
The role of research and development in drought adaptation on the Colorado River Basin
Climate change in the Murray-Darling Basin: implications for water use and environmental consequences
Urban Water Supply and Management
The urban water challenge in Australian cities
Water sensitive urban design
Water security for Adelaide, South Australia
Aquatic Ecosystems
Groundwater contamination in Bangladesh
Industrial and Mining Water Use
Water issues in Canada's tar sands
Science, governance, and environmental impacts of mines in developing countries: lessons from Ok Tedi in Papua New Guinea
Rural and Remote Communities
Aboriginal access to water in Australia: opportunities and constraints
Providing for social equity in water markets: the case for an indigenous reserve in northern Australia
Water Infrastructure Design and Operation
Flood hazard, floodplain policy and flood management
Managing Water Across Borders
Decision making in the Murray-Darling Basin
Challenges to water cooperation in the lower Jordan River Basin
Adaptation and change in Yellow River management
Managing international river basins: successes and failures of the Mekong River Commission
Market Mechanisms in Water Management
Inter-sectoral water trading as a climate change adaptation strategy
Contributors' biographies
Index
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