Global challenges have exacerbated a search for solutions to poverty and environmental
degradation. Integration it was argued would help address the twin challenge. Integrated …

Due to rapid urbanization, population growth and economic drivers, megacities and
metropolises around the world face increasing water challenges, such as water scarcity …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

Analysis of water policy shows the importance of cognitive and ideological dimensions in the
formulation of policy discourses. Ideas are never neutral and reflect the particular societal …

Watersheds are a widely accepted scale for water governance activities. This paper makes
three contributions to current understandings of watersheds as governance units. First, the …

Integrated watershed management, preferably under the direction of a watershed or basin
management body, has been prescribed in the water policy literature and from other …

Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change,
we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in …

This book documents the role that power plays in determining the outcome of the Palestinian–
Israeli water conflict, particularly in the wake of the 'Oslo process', up to December 2005. The …

Increasing water withdrawals for urban, industrial, and agricultural use have profoundly
altered the hydrology of many major rivers worldwide. Coupled with degradation of water …

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has often been interpreted and
implemented in a way that is only really suited to countries with the most developed water …