Cover -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 History of river basin management -- 1.1 Hydraulic cultures and religious codes: management in advance of science -- 1.2 The rise of hydraulics and hydrology -- 1.3 Monks, mills and mines: origins of river coordination in England -- 1.4 The rise of environment -- 1.5 The lessons of history and the challenges of the future -- 2 Natural river basins: transfer systems -- 2.1 Flow of water and transport of sediment -- 2.2 Channel morphology -- 2.3 Floodplains -- 2.4 Basin sediment systems -- 2.5 Summary: key elements of the natural system, a sensitivity assessment -- 3 Land and water: interactions -- 3.1 Vegetation, soils and hydrology -- 3.2 Groundwater exploitation and protection -- 3.3 Runoff modifications in developed river basins -- 3.4 Vegetation, soils and water quality -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 Managing land and water in the developed world: an international survey -- 4.1 Development and the river basin -- 4.2 River basin management in the USA -- 4.3 Canadian river basin management -- 4.4 Australia: a lesson learned late -- 4.5 New Zealand: wise management determined by hazard -- 4.6 Conclusions: national priorities in the developed world -- 5 River basins and development -- 5.1 General characteristics and new philosophies -- 5.2 Problems of food, power and trade in drylands -- 5.3 River basin management in Iran: the Zayandeh Rud example -- 5.4 The Nile: a definitive case of hydropolitics -- 5.5 River basin development authorities: experience elsewhere in Africa -- 5.6 The land-use dimension: Himalayan headwaters and the Indian subcontinent -- 5.7 Dams, alternatives and the need for a new international order.

5.8 Development and rivers: broad trends -- 6 Technical issues in river basin management -- 6.1 Soil erosion -- 6.2 Dams: problems of sedimentation and river regulation -- 6.3 Irrigation: land, water and people -- 6.4 Conservation and restoration of river channels and wetlands -- 6.5 Climatic change and river basin management -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7 Institutional issues in river basin management -- 7.1 Basin authorities: the influence of the TVA -- 7.2 Does an ideal river basin management institution exist? -- 7.3 Case study: sustainable basin management and UK water institutions -- 7.4 River basin units: land drainage leads the way -- 7.5 Issues of resources and pollution -- 7.6 Private or public? Economics and environment as institutional forces -- 7.7 River basin institutions and developing nations -- 7.8 Environmental assessment and management of water projects: worldwide panacea? -- 7.9 International river basin management -- 7.10 Conclusions: sustainability and subsidiarity-institutions which can plan basin development -- 8 Sustainable river basin management: issues of the knowledge base -- 8.1 Science in the 'New Environmental Age' -- 8.2 The environmental sciences -- 8.3 'Science speaks to power' -- 8.4 Environmentalism, environmental science and river basin systems -- 8.5 The hydrologists' stock-in-trade: catchment research -- 8.6 Alternatives to catchment research -- 8.7 Science and policy: land-use management in river basins-forests and beyond -- 8.8 Policy responses -- 8.9 The structure of implementation: land-use controls in river basins -- 8.10 Knowledge and policy consensus: science speaks to people -- 8.11 Conclusions: intervening in land-a political test of knowledge -- 9 Land and water: towards systems of management in a period of change -- 9.1 Future of the river basin idea -- 9.2 The mutual consideration of land with water.

9.3 Ecosystem services: humans in the environment -- 9.4 Land, water and development -- 9.5 Technocracy and democracy: planning and people -- 9.6 Anticipation and restoration: a practical agenda -- 9.7 How sustainable? A slow revolution -- 9.8 Catchments, basins, corridors and valleys: a final note on scale -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.