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Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes

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Editors:
  1. Olli Varis

    1. Water Resources Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

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  2. Asit K. Biswas

    1. Third World Centre for Water Management, Los Clubes, Atizapan, Mexico

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  3. Cecilia Tortajada

    1. Third World Centre for Water Management, Los Clubes, Atizapan, Mexico

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  • Written by the world's leading water experts
  • Analyses the magnitudes of transboundary water problems and objectively reviews management alternatives
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Management of Transboundary Waters: An Overview

    • Asit K. Biswas
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Southern African Hydropolitical Complex

    • Anthony Turton
    Pages 21-79

  4. Okavango River Basin

    • Thayer Scudder
    Pages 81-103

  5. Water Management in the Jordan River Basin: Towards an Ecosystem Approach

    • Odeh Al-Jayyousi, Ger Bergkamp
    Pages 105-121

  6. Transboundary Cooperation Between Finland and Its Neighbouring Countries

    • Timo Kotkasaari
    Pages 123-141

  7. Management of Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna System: Way Forward

    • Asit K. Biswas
    Pages 143-164

  8. Indus Waters and the 1960 Treaty Between India and Pakistan

    • Chandrakant D. Thatte
    Pages 165-206

  9. The Mekong: IWRM and Institutions

    • Katri Mehtonen, Marko Keskinen, Olli Varis
    Pages 207-226

  10. The Upstream Superpower: China’s International Rivers

    • James E. Nickum
    Pages 227-244

  11. Management of the North American Great Lakes

    • Marcia Valiante
    Pages 245-267

  12. The Rio de la Plata River Basin: The Path Towards Basin Institutions

    • Lilian del Castillo Laborde
    Pages 269-292

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 293-304
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Water’s role in the nature is very fundamental. As it circulates in the atmosphere, in the rivers, lakes, soil, rock, and in the oceans, it is the major conveyer of va- ous chemical substances and of energy, and it can also be called as the blood of the ecosystems of this planet. But at the same time water is interwoven in the va- ous functions of the nature and the human society in countless ways which makes water one of the most complicated challenges of the mankind today. These ch- lenges call for seeing water in a broad development framework, pressed by a mix of demographic, social, environmental, technological and economic drivers. Human beings are exploiting and enjoying, but at the same time polluting and deteriorating, the waters in various ways and water is equally important to the - man socio-economic system as it is to the nature. It may sound a bit anecdotal to say that water obeys no borders, but that is true; the hydrologic cycle with its r- ers, river basins, lakes, aquifers, rainfalls, oceans, etc., cross administrational b- ders without any passport control. River and lake basins are in most cases very different from the administrational borders that the human beings have set up.

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"A welcome development that by the efforts of the Helsinki University of Technology and the Third World Centre for Water Management (with intellectual support of the International Water Resources Association), Springer has brought out a book on the Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes. It is based on many invited papers presented and discussed at an international workshop held in Espoo, Finland in August 2005." (Water Resources Development, Vol. 24 (4), December, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Water Resources Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

    Olli Varis

  • Third World Centre for Water Management, Los Clubes, Atizapan, Mexico

    Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

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