River Basin Trajectories: Societies, Environments and Development (Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series, 8)

Using a variety of case studies, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully. Discussing how and why particular options are selected, and why a particular course of events eventually prevails, the book stresses the importance of context and a multidisciplinary approach in moving towards sustainable and equitable development. Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 8 Series Foreword......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 15 1 River Basin Trajectories: an Inquiry into Changing Waterscapes......Page 16 2 Squeezed Dry: the Historical Trajectory of the Lower Jordan River Basin......Page 35 3 Are Good Intentions Leading to Good Outcomes? Continuities in Social, Economic and Hydro-political Trajectories in the Olifants River Basin, South Africa......Page 62 4 From Half-full to Half-empty: the Hydraulic Mission and Water Overexploitation in the Lerma–Chapala Basin, Mexico......Page 90 5 Managing the Yellow River: Continuity and Change......Page 114 6 The Colorado River: What Prospect for ‘a River No More’?......Page 138 7 Sharing Scarce Resources in a Mediterranean River Basin: Wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia......Page 162 8 Water Competition, Variability and River Basin Governance: a Critical Analysis of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania......Page 186 9 Buying Respite: Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud River Basin, Iran......Page 211 10 Rural Dynamics and New Challenges in the Indian Water Sector: the Trajectory of the Krishna Basin, South India......Page 229 11 Pumped Out: Basin Closure and Farmer Adaptations in the Bhavani Basin in Southern India......Page 253 12 Much Ado about the Murray: the Drama of Restraining Water Use......Page 278 A......Page 308 C......Page 309 D......Page 312 E......Page 313 G......Page 314 I......Page 315 L......Page 317 M......Page 318 P......Page 319 R......Page 320 S......Page 322 U......Page 324 W......Page 325 Z......Page 326 River basin trajectories: an inquiry into changing waterscapes / François Molle and Philippus Wester Squeezed dry: the historical trajectory of the lower Jordan river basin / Mauro Van Aken, François Molle and Jean-Philippe Venot Are good intentions leading to good outcomes? Continuities in social, economic and hydro-political trajectories in the Olifants river basin, South Africa / Doug Merrey, Hervé Levite and Barbara van Koppen From half full to half empty: the hydraulic mission and water over-exploitation in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester ... [et al.] Managing the Yellow River: continuity and change / David Pietz and Mark Giordano The Colorado River: what prospect for 'a river no more'? / Doug Kenney Sharing scarce resources in a Mediterranean river basin: wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia / Patrick Legoulven ... [et al.] Water competition, variability and river basin governance: a critical analysis of the great Ruaha river, Tanzania / Bruce Lankford, Siza Tumbo and Kossa Rajabu Buying respite: Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud river basin, Iran / François Molle, Iran Ghazi and Hammond Murray-Rust Rural dynamics and new challenges in the Indian water sector: trajectory of the Krishna basin, south India / Jean-Philippe Venot Pumped out: basin closure and farmer adaptations in the Bhavani basin in southern India / Mats Lannerstad and David Molden Much ado about the Murray river: the drama of restraining water use / Hugh Turral, Daniel Connell and Jennifer McKay. This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to adopt certain practices and not others and, in particular, how water management can help poor people. They are about ecosystems - how agriculture affects ecosystems, the goods and services ecosystems provide for food security and how water can be managed to meet both food and environmental security objectives. This is the eighth book in the series Using river basin case studies in a variety of contexts, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully