Israeli-Palestinian and Colorado River Basin water challenges /
First Statement of Responsibility
editors, Sharon B. Megdal, Robert Varady & Susanna Eden, Water Resources Research Center, the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 293 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;
Dimensions
26 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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"A Balkema book."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 Water development: Infrastructure and institutions -- 1. The development of water infrastructures in Israel: Past, present and future / Maya Negev -- 2. Arizona's water infrastructure: A history of management and use / Douglas E. Kupel -- 3. Key issues, institutions, and strategies for managing transboundary water resources in the Arizona-Mexico border region / Susanna Eden -- SECTION 2 Political and economic perspectives on water -- 4. The role of creative language in addressing political realities: Middle-Eastern water agreements / Gabriel Eckstein -- 5. Revisiting water politics and policy in Israel: Policymaking under conditions of uncertainty / Samer Alatout -- 6. Water pricing in Israel in theory and practice / Yoav Kislev -- 7. Achieving water policy objectives through water pricing: A case study of Arizona's decentralized approach to water provision / Jorge Lara Alvarez -- SECTION 3 Learning from comparison -- 8. Property systems and conservation of instream flows: Israel and the Western United States compared / David Schorr -- 9. Water, land, and development: Comparative Arizona -- Israeli-Palestinian perspective / Francois Molle -- 10. Perspectives on water conservation in Israel and Palestine: Foundations and future / Clive Lipchin -- SECTION 4 Challenges, new and old: Climate change and wastewater -- 11. Implications of climate change in Palestine / Mohammed N. Almasri -- 12. Climate change challenges and solutions for water managers / Gregg M. Garfin -- 13. Challenges of transboundary wastewater management for Palestinian communities along the Green Line -- The Israeli-Palestinian border / Ahmad M. Al-Hindi -- 14. Management of transboundary wastewater discharges / Alon Tal -- SECTION 5 Expanding water supplies: Promising strategies and technologies -- 15. Expanding water resources in Arizona: Role of reuse in reaching sustainability / Karen L. Smith -- 16. Desalination in Arizona: Challenges, applications and prospects / Jamie McEvoy -- 17. Sea water desalination in Israel: Planning, coping with difficulties, and economic aspects of long-term risks / Abraham Tenne.