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Hydrology and Water Law - Bridging the Gap
About This Book
With "integrated water resources management" (IWRM) the current buzzword in international circles, the real question is: how to operationalise a truly multidisciplinary approach to the effective management of shared watercourses. Based largely on the actual experience of HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy), the overall aim of the book is to produce a series of case studies from around the world (from the Aral Sea to Zimbabwe) that demonstrate how the "gaps" between hydrology, water law and management are actually bridged in practice. Is hydrological data relevant and used in the formulation of national and international water law and policy? Cases cited include examples of where this has happened and been successful or unsuccessful and where this has not happened and led to problems. This will act as a guide to how future water laws and polices can be made more effective via the use of accurate and up to date hydrological information.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Index
- 1.0 Need for closer links between water science and law
- 2.0 Integrating science and policy for water management
- 3.0 Water reforms in the Murray Darling Basin: law and policy challenges
- 4.0 Great Lakes management
- 5.0 Water management issues of the Tarim River basin
- 6.0 Panama Canal water resources management
- 7.0 Ghanaian water reforms
- 8.0 Aral Sea basin: science, policy and practice
- 9.0 Information use and water resources laws and policies in Ecuador
- 10.0 Transboundary groundwater resources in Palestine
- 11.0 River basin planning in Scotland and the EC
- 12.0 Hydrological information in water law and policy: New Zealand