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List of Plates | ||
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Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Prologue | ||
1 | History of river basin management | 1 |
1.1 | Hydraulic cultures: management in advance of science | 1 |
1.2 | The rise of hydrology and hydraulics | 6 |
1.3 | Monks, mills and mines: origins of river coordination in England | 11 |
1.4 | The rise of environment | 16 |
1.5 | The lessons of history and the challenges of the future | 19 |
2 | Natural river basins: transfer systems | 22 |
2.1 | Flow of water and the transport of sediment | 23 |
2.2 | Channel morphology | 34 |
2.3 | Floodplains | 42 |
2.4 | Basin sediment systems | 47 |
2.5 | Summary: key elements of the natural system, a sensitivity assessment | 51 |
3 | Land and water: interactions | 53 |
3.1 | Vegetation, soils and hydrology | 53 |
3.2 | Runoff modifications in developed river basins | 65 |
3.3 | Vegetation, soils and water quality | 73 |
3.4 | Conclusions | 85 |
4 | Managing land and water in the developed world: an international survey | 88 |
4.1 | Development and the river basin | 88 |
4.2 | River basin management in the USA | 89 |
4.3 | Canadian river basin management | 113 |
4.4 | New Zealand: wise management determined by hazard | 123 |
4.5 | Conclusions: national priorities in the developed world | 134 |
5 | River basins and development | 136 |
5.1 | General characteristics and new philosophies | 136 |
5.2 | Problems of food, power and trade in drylands | 139 |
5.3 | The Nile: a definitive case of hydropolitics | 145 |
5.4 | River basin development authorities: experience elsewhere in Africa | 157 |
5.5 | The land-use dimension: Africa waits but the Ganges responds | 166 |
5.6 | Dams, alternatives and the need for new international order | 174 |
5.7 | Development and rivers: broad trends | 186 |
6 | Technical issues in river basin management | 188 |
6.1 | Soil erosion | 189 |
6.2 | River regulation | 205 |
6.3 | Climatic change and river basin management | 221 |
7 | Institutional issues in river basin management | 242 |
7.1 | Basin authorities: the influence of the TVA | 246 |
7.2 | Does an ideal river basin institution exist? | 247 |
7.3 | Case study: UK water institutions | 249 |
7.4 | River basin units: land drainage leads the way | 252 |
7.5 | Issues of resources and pollution | 255 |
7.6 | Political analysis of the Regional Water Authorities | 260 |
7.7 | River basin institutions and developing nations | 265 |
7.8 | Environmental assessment of water projects: worldwide panacea? | 268 |
7.9 | International river basin management | 271 |
7.10 | Current UK trajectories river basin assessment and consultation: lessons for institutions | 273 |
7.11 | Conclusions: influence over land - an essential prerequisite | 277 |
8 | Sustainable river basin management: issues of the knowledge base | 281 |
8.1 | Science in the 'New Environmental' Age | 281 |
8.2 | The environmental sciences | 283 |
8.3 | 'Science speaks to power' | 284 |
8.4 | Environmentalism, environmental science and river basin systems | 286 |
8.5 | The hydrologists' stock-in-trade: catchment research | 288 |
8.6 | Alternatives to catchment research | 293 |
8.7 | Science and policy: land-use management in river basins | 295 |
8.8 | Policy responses | 299 |
8.9 | The structure of implementation: British examples | 301 |
8.10 | Conclusions: intervening in land - a political test of knowledge | 307 |
9 | Land and water: towards systems of management in a period of change | 309 |
9.1 | Future of the river basin idea | 309 |
9.2 | The mutual consideration of land with water | 311 |
9.3 | Land, water and development | 312 |
9.4 | Technocracy and democracy: planning and people | 313 |
9.5 | Anticipation and restoration: a practical agenda | 315 |
9.6 | Catchments, basins, corridors and valleys: a final note on scale | 318 |
Bibliography | 321 | |
Index | 341 |
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