Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples (Hardcover)

Introduction and Guide to the Handbook of Water Resources Management:       Discourses, Concepts and Examples.- Water a unique phenomenon and resource.- Water and its Management: Dependence, Linkages and Challenges.- A drop in the ocean: on writing histories of water resource management.- Water Ethics.- Water law and rights.- Water discourses.- The water security discourse and its main actors.- Water governance and policies.- Economics of water security.- Drivers, pressures and stressors: the societal framework of water resources management.- Water resources management: integrated and adaptive decision making.- Observation, monitoring and data management.- Assessment of water quantity.- Assessment of land/catchment use and degradation.- Freshwaters: global distribution, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and human pressures.- Water, energy and food relations in Gulf Cooperation Council.- Examples of water resources management options.- Examples of water and land use management.- Water and energy.- Water management and stewardship in mining regions.- Water-related hazard and risk management.- Groundwater and conjunctive use management.- Storage Reservoir Operation and Management.- Complexity in water management and governance.