Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples
ISBN
9783030601454
ISBN (electronic)
9783030601478
Chapter
1
Pages (from-to)
3-8
Number of pages
6
Publisher
Cham: Springer
Organisations
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract
This chapter provides the background and rationale of this handbook. It touches upon the main challenges of contemporary water resources management. It guides the reader through the four distinct parts and 25 chapters of the handbook. The structure of this handbook facilitates different disciplinary and thematic perspectives whereby conceptually the review of ongoing discourses, introduction and analysis of concepts and contexts as well as examples to highlight successes and lessons to be learned provide the framework.