Increasing global pressure on water resources requires many actions from governments and individuals to achieve sustainable levels of water use. These involve management tasks such as project development and utility operation, but the degree of interdependence among the many participants in water management is so great that additional regulatory and coordination mechanisms are needed to control water development and uses.
This book is designed to be the introductory work in the new Governance and Management for Sustainable Water Systems Series. It introduces the subject of governance of water systems and illuminates relatively unexplored topics of water resources management.The material is practical but advanced in the sense that theories of industry organization, governance, and institutional analysis are applied in new ways.
New case study applications are provided in the book and help the reader to understand how their disciplines apply to water management. The case studies are drawn from each sector and region in the world, including cases from the U.S.A., Europe, the Middle East, South America and a global case to cover water system privatization.
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Author: Professor Neil S Grigg, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, USA
- ISBN10 1306301882
- ISBN13 9781306301886
- Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 6 December 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint IWA Publishing (Intl Water Assoc)
- Format eBook
- Pages 214
- Language English