Improving Water Policy and Governance

ISBN-13: 9780415674829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 202 str.

Cecilia Tortajada;Asit K. Biswas

Opis

This title analyses case studies of good water governance from different parts of the world and the enabling environments that made it possible.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Asit K. Biswas is President of the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico; and Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.

Cecilia Tortajada is Scientific Director at the International Centre for Water and Environment, Zaragoza; and Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.