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020 _a9783540238119
020 _a3540238115
082 _a333.91
_bWAT
100 _aChennat Gopalakrishnan (Editor)
245 _aWater institutions : policies, performance and prospects
260 _aBerlin ; New York :
_bSpringer,
_c©2005.
300 _axi, 210 pages :
_billustrations ;
490 _aWater resources development and management.
500 _aIndex
505 _aWater 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
520 _aA 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
650 _aWater resources development.
650 _aWater-supply -- Management.
650 _aRessourcenmanagement.
700 _aGopalakrishnan, Chennat
700 _aTortajada, Cecilia
700 _aBiswas, Asit K.
942 _cPR
999 _c41570
_d41570