Blue revolution : integrated land and water resource management

By: Calder, Ian RMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005Edition: 2nd EditionDescription: xix, 353 p. : illustrations, mapsISBN: 9781844072408 (hardback); 1844072401 (hardback); 9781844072392 (pbk.); 1844072398 (pbk.)Subject(s): Integrated water development | Land useDDC classification: 333.91 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction : the revolution -- New understanding : land use and water interactions -- Forests and water : myths and mother statements -- Water resources and the limits concept : a systems approach to estimating evaporation -- The new ideals -- Policies, power and perversity -- Water resource conflicts -- Integrated land and water resource management -- Appendix 1 IWRM and ILWRM contact and linking organizations -- Appendix 2 glossary of participatory tools.
Summary: "This updated and revised edition of Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resource management. It presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water, for food and other forms of economic production, for sustaining livelihoods, and for conservation, amenity, recreation and the requirements of the environment. It also advocates the means and methodologies for addressing these issues."--Jacket.
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Included Index.

Introduction : the revolution --
New understanding : land use and water interactions --
Forests and water : myths and mother statements --
Water resources and the limits concept : a systems approach to estimating evaporation --
The new ideals --
Policies, power and perversity --
Water resource conflicts --
Integrated land and water resource management --
Appendix 1 IWRM and ILWRM contact and linking organizations --
Appendix 2 glossary of participatory tools.

"This updated and revised edition of Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resource management. It presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water, for food and other forms of economic production, for sustaining livelihoods, and for conservation, amenity, recreation and the requirements of the environment. It also advocates the means and methodologies for addressing these issues."--Jacket.

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