Irrigation and River Basin Management: Options for Governance and Institutions

by Mark Svendsen

With increasing water scarcity, pressure to re-allocate water from agriculture to other uses mounts, along with a need to put in place institutional arrangements to promote "higher value" uses of water. Many developing countries are now experimenting with establishing new institutional arrangements for managing water at the river basin level.

This book, based on research by IWMI and others, reviews basin management in six developed and developing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851996728
• ISBN13: 9780851996721
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Cabi
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 9.8"