TY - BOOK AU - Chennat Gopalakrishnan (Editor) AU - Gopalakrishnan, Chennat AU - Tortajada, Cecilia AU - Biswas, Asit K. TI - Water institutions : policies, performance and prospects T2 - Water resources development and management SN - 9783540238119 U1 - 333.91 PY - 2005/// CY - Berlin ; New York : PB - Springer, KW - Water resources development. KW - Water-supply -- Management. KW - Ressourcenmanagement N1 - Index; Water allocation and management in Hawaii: a case of institutional entropy / by Chennat Gopalakrishnan -- Institutions for resources management: a case study from Sri Lanka / by Asit K. Biswas -- Water institutions in India: structure, performance, and change / by R. Maria Saleth -- Uphill flow of reform in China's irrigation districts / by James E. Nickum -- Institutions for water management in Mexico / by Cecilia Tortajada and Nancy Contreras-Moreno -- Water institutions in the Middle East / by Peter Beaumont -- Institutions in South African international river basins / by Anthony R. Turton and Anton Earle -- Property rights, water rights and the changing scene in western water / by Charles W. Howe -- Finding a modern role for the prior appropriation doctrine in the American west / by Ray Huffaker N2 - A survey and assessment of the structure, evolution, and performance of water institutions - administration policies and regulatory practices - in regional, national, and international settings. It includes analysis and discussion of the rationale for institutional innovations, based on case study findings ER -