Managing Water Resources: Past and Present The Linacre Lectures 2002

by Trottier, Julie; Slack, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780199267644
• ISBN10: 0199267642
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive, the British experience of watermanagement, the over-exploitation of African aquifers, and the evolution of the water situation in Southern Africa are all examined.This volume underlines the fact that only an integrative and interdisciplinary understanding can lead to genuinely improved water management practices that will not benefit some social groups at the expense of others.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xii
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(12)
Julie Trottier
1. Silent Springs: Groundwater Resources Under Threat	13	(22)
W.M. Edmunds
2. Water in Mediterranean History	35	(16)
Peregrine Horden
3. The Development of American Water Resources: Planners, Politicians, and Constitutional Interpretation	51	(22)
Martin Reuss
4. Managing Water for the Future: The Case of England and Wales	73	(16)
Ian Byatt
5. Water for Europe: The Creation of the European Water Framework Directive	89	(28)
Maria Kaika
6. Water Laws for Water Security in the Twenty-First Century	117	(14)
Stefano Burchi
7. Water and Conflicts, Hobbes v. Ibn Khaldun: The Real Clash of Civilizations?	131	(18)
Julie Trottier
8. Water and Development: A Southern African Perspective	149	(26)
Peter Ashton
Index	175