Irrigation and River Basin Management
Options for Governance and Institutions
Published on 18. February 2005
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-85199-672-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 countries. It describes and applies a functional theory of river basin management, based on the idea that there is a minimum set of functions required to manage basins effectively and a set of basic conditions that enable effective management institutions to emerge. The book examines the experiences of both developed and developing countries in order to see what lessons can be learned and to identify what constitutes the core of a 'theory of river basin management'. It concludes that although it is difficult for developing countries to adopt approaches and institutional designs directly from developed countries, basic principles and lessons are transferable.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
957 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85199-672-1 (9780851996721)
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Content
1: Ecological interactions in multispecies agroecosystems: concepts and rules, C K Ong, R M Kho, Kamerlingh Onnesstraat, The Netherlands and S Radersma, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya 2: Locally derived knowledge of soil fertility and its emerging role in integrated natural resource management, L Joshi, ICRAF, Bogor, Indonesia, P K Shrestha, LI-BIRD, Nepal, C Moss and F L Sinclair, University of Wales, Bangor, UK 3: Models of below-ground interactions: their validity, applicability and beneficiaries, R Matthews, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK, M van Noordwijk, A J Gijsman, CIAT, Cali, Colombia and G Cadisch 4: Tree root architecture, F K Akinnifesi, ICRAF, Southern Africa, E C Rowe, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, S J Livesley, The University of Western Australia, et al. 5: Crop and tree root-system dynamics, M van Noordwijk, S Rahayu, S E Williams, ICRAF, Bogor, Indonesia, et al. 6: Opportunities for capture of deep soil nutrients, R J Buresh, IRRI, The Philippines, E C Rowe, S J Livesley, et al. 7: Phosphorus dynamics and mobilization by plants, P F Grierson, The University of Western Australia, P Smithson, ICRAF, Kenya, G Nziguheba, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, et al. 8: Managing soil acidity and aluminium toxicity in tree-based agroecosystems, M T F Wong, CSIRO, Australia, K Hairiah,Brawijaya University, Indonesia and J Alegre, ICRAF, Peru 9: Uptake, partitioning and redistribution of water by roots in mixed-species agroecosystems, M Smith, CSIRO, Australia, S S O Burgess, University of California, USA, D Suprayogo, Brawijaya University, Indonesia, et al. 10: Catching and competing for mobile nutrients in soils, G Cadisch, P de Willigen, Alterra, The Netherlands, D Suprayogo, et al. 11: Below-ground inputs: relationships with soil quality, soil C storage and soil structure, A Albrecht, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya, G Cadisch, E Blanchart, IRD, Montpellier, France, S M Sitompul, Brawijaya University, Indonesia, et al. 12: Soil-atmosphere gas exchange in tropical agriculture: Contributions to climate change, L V Verchot, ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya, A Mosier, USDA, Fort Collins, USA, E M Baggs, Imperial College of London, Wye, UK, et al. 13: Benefiting from N2-fixation and managing rhizobia, P L Mafongoya, ICRAF, Chiputa, Zambia, K E Giller, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, D Odee, KEFRI, Kisumu, Kenya, et al. 14: Managing mycorrhiza in tropical multispecies agroecosystems, T W Kuyper, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, I M Cardoso, Federal University of Vitosa, Brazil, N A Onguene, IRAD, Cameroon, et al. 15: Nematodes and other soilborne pathogens in agroforestry, J Desaeger, University of Georgia Coastal Plant Experiment Station, USA, M R Rao, ICRISAT, AP. India and J Bridge, CABI Bioscience, Surrey, UK 16: Soil biodiversity and food webs, F X Susilo, Lampung University, Indonesia, A M Neutel, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, M van Noordwijk, et al. 17: Managing below-ground interactions in agroecosystems, M E Rao, G Schroth, National Institute for Research in the Amazon, USA, S E Williams, et al. 18: Managing movements of water, solutes and soil: from plot to landscape scale, S B L Ranieri, ICRAF, Bogor, Indonesia, R Stirzaker, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, D Suprayogo, et al. 19: Soil and water movement: combining local ecological knowledge with that of modellers when scaling up from plot to landscape level, L Joshi, W Schalenbourg, ICRAF, Indonesia, L Johansson, Uppsala, Sweden, et al. 20: Challenges for the next decade of research on below-ground interactions in tropical agroecosystems: client-driven solutions at landscape scale, M van Noordwijk, G Cadisch and C K Ong