７１：IWRM新書のご案内

尊敬する水専門家の一人であるハーバード大学教授のピーター・ロジャーズ教授(GWP顧問）も参加している新書をご紹介しよう。まだ発売はされておらず、WWF5開催前の今年２月に発売される。予約もできるそうだ。EarthSCANから購入できる。下記参考のこと。

Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice Better Water Management for Development by Roberto Lenton and Mike Muller

Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century - feeding the world's growing population and reducing poverty, meeting water and sanitation needs, protecting vital ecosystems, all while adapting to climate change. The approach known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best way forward, but is poorly understood, even within the water sector. Since a core IWRM principle is that good water management must involve the water users, the understanding and involvement of other sectors is critical for success. There is thus an urgent need for practical guidance, for both water and development professionals, based on real world examples, rather than theoretical constructs. That is what this book provides.

Using case studies, the book illustrates how better water management, guided by the IWRM approach, has helped to meet a wide range of sustainable development goals. It does this by considering practical examples, looking at how IWRM has contributed, at different scales, from very local, village level experiences to reforms at national level and beyond to cases involving trans-boundary river basins.

Using these on-the-ground experiences, from both developed and developing countries in five continents, the book provides candid and practical lessons for policy makers, donors, and water and development practitioners worldwide looking at how IWRM principles were applied, what worked, and, equally important, what didn't work, and why.

Published with the Global Water Partnership

About the author(s)

Roberto Lenton is Chair of the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership. He is former Director of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Division of the UNDP in New York and Director General of the International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka. Mike Muller was Director General of South Africa's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and is currently visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Public and Development Management.

Chapter contributors include a number of other practitioners, such as Humberto Peña who led Chile's sector reforms and Akissa Bahri, currently director of IWMI in Africa, as well as experts from NGOs or with professional and academic backgrounds, including Peter Rogers from Harvard University and Judith Rees of the London School of Economics.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Local Level

A Watershed in Watershed Management: The Sukhomajri Experience

A Tale of Two Cities: Meeting Urban Water Demands Through Sustainable Groundwater Management

Wetlands in Crisis: Improving Bangladesh's Wetland Ecosystems and Livelihoods of the Poor who Depend on them

Should Salmon Roam Free? Dam Removal on the Lower Snake River

Better Rural Livelihoods through Improved Irrigation Management: Office du Niger (Mali)

From Water to Wine: Maximizing the Productivity of Water Use in Agriculture while Ensuring Sustainability

Part II: Basin Level

Turning Water Stress into Water Management Success: Experiences in the Lerma-Chapala River Basin

Turning Conflict into Opportunities: The Case of Lake Biwa, Japan

Taming the Yangtze River by Enforcing Infrastructure Development under IWRM

Part III: National Level

Taking it One Step at a Time: Chile's Sequential, Adaptive Approach to Achieving the Three E's

Attempting to Do It All: How a new South Africa has Harnessed Water to Address its Development Challenges

Part IV: Transnational Level

Transboundary Cooperation in Action for Integrated Water Resources Management and Development in the Lower Mekong Basin

Conclusions: Lessons Learned and Final Reflections

Index

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Hardback 9781844076499 £95.00

Peter Rogersがサイエンスに発表した論文「Facing the freshwater crisis」には一切IWRMという表現はなかった。意識して使わないんだろう。IWRMのプロモーターとは一線を引いているようだ。