Improving Water Policy and Governance

Informationen zum Autor Asit K. Biswas is President of theThird World Centre for Water Management! Mexico; and Distinguished Visiting Professor of theLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy! Singapore.Cecilia Tortajada is Scientific Director at theInternational Centre for Water and Environment! Zaragoza; and Visiting Professor at theLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy! Singapore. Zusammenfassung This book analyses case studies of good water governance from different parts of the world and the enabling environments that made it possible. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Future Water Governance: Problems and Perspectives 2. Water Governance in the Middle East and North Africa: An Unfinished Agenda 3. Water Supply of Phnom Penh: An Example of Good Governance 4. Service Quality and Performance Measurement: Evidence from the Indian Water Sector 5. Municipal Water Supply Management in Bangkok: Achievements and Lessons 6. Is Access to Water as Good as the Data Claim? Case Study of Yucatan 7. Challenges for Water Governance in Rural Water Supply: Lessons Learned from Tanzania 8. Governing to Grow Enough Food without Enough Water - Second Best Solutions Show the Way 9. Irrigation Modernization in Spain: Effects on Water Quantity and Quality - A Conceptual Approach 10. A Spatial Planning Perspective for Measures Concerning Flood Risk Management 11. Water Governance: Some Critical Issues 12. Water Governance: A Research Agenda

Product details

• Authors: Cecilia (National University of Singapo Tortajada
• Assisted by: Asit Biswas (Editor), Biswas Asit (Editor), Cecilia Tortajada (Editor), Tortajada Cecilia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2010
• EAN: 9780415606288
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60628-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Politics & government, environmental science, engineering & technology, Politics and government, Human Geography, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols