Contents

Contributors

Series Foreword

Acknowledgements

1 River Basin Trajectories: an Inquiry into Changing Waterscapes

2 Squeezed Dry: the Historical Trajectory of the Lower Jordan River Basin

3 Are Good Intentions Leading to Good Outcomes? Continuities in Social, Economic and Hydro-political Trajectories in the Olifants River Basin, South Africa

4 From Half-full to Half-empty: the Hydraulic Mission and Water Overexploitation in the Lerma–Chapala Basin, Mexico

5 Managing the Yellow River: Continuity and Change

6 The Colorado River: What Prospect for ‘a River No More’?

7 Sharing Scarce Resources in a Mediterranean River Basin: Wadi Merguellil in Central Tunisia

8 Water Competition, Variability and River Basin Governance: a Critical Analysis of the Great Ruaha River, Tanzania

9 Buying Respite: Esfahan and the Zayandeh Rud River Basin, Iran

10 Rural Dynamics and New Challenges in the Indian Water Sector: the Trajectory of the Krishna Basin, South India

11 Pumped Out: Basin Closure and Farmer Adaptations in the Bhavani Basin in Southern India

12 Much Ado about the Murray: the Drama of Restraining Water Use

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