Integrated Water Resources Management: From concept to implementation (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance)

ISBN 10: 1138852996 / ISBN 13: 9781138852990

Published by Routledge, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Integrated Water Resources Management: From concept to implementation (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138852996
• ISBN 13: 9781138852990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include the implementation status of the IWRM concept at local, basin, regional and national levels; its appropriateness for the twenty-first century; main implementation gaps from the institutional, legal, policy, governance, management and technical viewpoints; the likelihood that IWRM’s entrenchment in laws, regulations and policies has led to smoother implementation and the reasons why that has been the case; reflexions on whether the attention given to IWRM is pushing other alternatives to the policy periphery; and the new conceptual constructions that can be put forward for discussion in the international arena.

For the development and water communities it is imperative to debate and reach towards more illustrative conclusions regarding whether the promotion of the IWRM concept and its actual implementation status have been beneficial for development and how the notion could evolve to achieve this end. In-depth objective and constructive discussions, arguments, proposals and ideas are put forward for analysis by all interested parties. The book has the objective of fostering scholarly exchange, encouraging intellectual debate and promoting the advancement of knowledge and understanding of IWRM as a concept, as a goal per se and as a strategy towards development goals.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

About the Author

Cecilia Tortajada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and former President of the International Water Resources Association.