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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Water Resources Management and Policy by Dale Whittington (Hardback)
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9780190853396
Published:
12 Sep 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
2628 pages
Dimensions:
254x178mm
Weight:
0.003kgs
Author:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Water Resources Management and Policy provides up-to-date, in-depth coverage of over 100 important topics in the field of water resources management and policy. Contributing authors come from all over the world and from different disciplines (engineers, economists, geographers, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, lawyers, city and regional planners, and hydrologists). Examples of topics covered include water security, machine learning methods in water management, water markets, groundwater management, water development paths, gender and water, water governance, smart cities and water infrastructure, computable general equilibrium models for water resources management, stormwater management, flood risk management, condominial sewers, and systems for surface water allocation.
Water is essential-not only for life, but to modern economies across the globe, acting as an input for energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and most importantly, human consumption. Its use, however, requires major investments and innovations and while technological advancements have worked to provide solutions to challenges in many local settings, the demand for water continues to increase. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Water Resources Management and Policy is comprised of 110 scholarly articles and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the current state of the field. The Encyclopedia explores concepts, global conditions, policy instruments and implementation, as well as special topics (such as river restoration, emerging issues, and sanitation) and works to offer a roadmap for future directions towards water use, accessibility, and equity. This volume is organized into nineteen sections: Introduction: Eight Organizing Concepts; Economic Perspectives; Political Perspectives; Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives; Legal Perspectives; Governance, Institutional, and Planning Perspectives; Water and Climate Change Adaptation; Water Development Paths; Advances in Technologies for Water Supply Augmentation, Conservation, and Management; Water Resources Systems Analysis Tools; Economic Analysis of Water Infrastructure Investments and Policy Interventions; Stormwater Management; Groundwater Management; Water Pricing and Tariffs; Regulation; Understanding Water Use: Behavioral Approaches; Planning for Improved WASH Services; Condominial Sewer Systems; and Emerging Issues, Future Challenges.
About the Author: Dale Whittington is Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. From 2007-2021 he was a part-time Professor at the University of Manchester. He is the author of over 140 journal articles, and over one hundred book chapters, consultant reports, and other publications, including (with Prof. Duncan MacRae Jr.) a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for Policy Choice. From 2009-2015, Prof. Whittington served as a member of the Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership (GWP). In 2021, Prof. Whittington was the President of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis. Since 2014, Prof. Whittington and Dr. Duncan Thomas have offered the two-part Massive Open Online Course, Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries on COURSERA. Over 40,000 students from 184 countries have participated.
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