Land, Water and Development : Sustainable Management of River Basin Systems

Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 History of river basin management -- 1.1 Hydraulic cultures and religious codes: management in advance of science -- 1.2 The rise of hydraulics and hydrology -- 1.3 Monks, mills and mines: origins of river coordination in England -- 1.4 The rise of environment -- 1.5 The lessons of history and the challenges of the future -- 2 Natural river basins: transfer systems -- 2.1 Flow of water and transport of sediment -- 2.2 Channel morphology -- 2.3 Floodplains -- 2.4 Basin sediment systems -- 2.5 Summary: key elements of the natural system, a sensitivity assessment -- 3 Land and water: interactions -- 3.1 Vegetation, soils and hydrology -- 3.2 Groundwater exploitation and protection -- 3.3 Runoff modifications in developed river basins -- 3.4 Vegetation, soils and water quality -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 Managing land and water in the developed world: an international survey -- 4.1 Development and the river basin -- 4.2 River basin management in the USA -- 4.3 Canadian river basin management -- 4.4 Australia: a lesson learned late -- 4.5 New Zealand: wise management determined by hazard -- 4.6 Conclusions: national priorities in the developed world -- 5 River basins and development -- 5.1 General characteristics and new philosophies -- 5.2 Problems of food, power and trade in drylands -- 5.3 River basin management in Iran: the Zayandeh Rud example -- 5.4 The Nile: a definitive case of hydropolitics -- 5.5 River basin development authorities: experience elsewhere in Africa -- 5.6 The land-use dimension: Himalayan headwaters and the Indian subcontinent -- 5.7 Dams, alternatives and the need for a new international order.