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Integrated water resource management – combining perspectives
from law, policy and science .........................................................172
Andrew Allan, Susan Baggett, Michael Bonell, Geoffrey Gooch, Sarah Hendry,
Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Chris Spray, Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and
Science, University of Dundee, Scotland
Community benefits achieved through developing legal
frameworks at domestic and transboundary levels .........................176
Stefano Burchi, Chairman, Executive Council, International Association for Water Law
New approaches to planning and decision-making for fresh water:
cooperative water management in New Zealand ............................178
Clive Howard-Williams, Chief Scientist, National Institute for Water and
Atmospheric Research, Christchurch; Alastair Bisley, Chairman, Land and Water
Forum, Ministry for the Environment, and Ken Taylor, Director Investigations and
Monitoring, Canterbury Regional Council, New Zealand
The US-Mexico institutional arrangement for transboundary
water governance ..........................................................................182
Polioptro F. Martinez-Austria and Luis Ernesto Derbez, University of Las Americas
Puebla, Mexico; and Maria Elena Giner, Border Environment Cooperation
Commission, Mexico-United States
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Managing water: from local wisdom to modern science..................188
Ignasius D. A. Sutapa, Executive Secretary, Asia Pacific Centre for Ecohydrology
Water for life: inspiring action and promoting best practices
in local cooperation. ......................................................................192
Josefina Maestu and Pilar Gonzalez-Meyaui, United Nations Office to Support the
International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005-2015/UN-Water Decade
Programme on Advocacy and Communication
International water cooperation ....................................................196
Kitty van der Heijden, Ambassador, Sustainable Development and Director,
Department for Climate, Energy, Environment and Water, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, The Netherlands
Cooperating to manage liquid waste in the Okavango
Delta Ramsar Site...........................................................................199
Michael Ramaano, Project Manager, Global Water Partnership Botswana
Secretariat; Nkobi Mpho Moleele, Project Manager, Okavango Research Institute
Water cooperation in Korea. ..........................................................203
Boosik Kang, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Dankook University
and Korea Water Resources Association
Water expertise and cooperation: Hungary’s international policy...207
Dr Gábor Baranyai, Chair of Organizing Committee, Budapest Water Summit, and
Deputy State Secretary, EU Sectoral Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
Assessment of Lebanon’s shared water resources and the need
for effective cooperation.................................................................211
Amin Shaban, Talal Darwich and Mouin Hamze, National Council for Scientific
Research, Beirut, Lebanon
Alternative water resources in agriculture for improving
production and poverty reduction..................................................215
Shoaib Ismail, Ian McCann, Shabbir Shahid , Fiona Chandler and Mohamed Amrani
International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Managing water, sustainability and poverty reduction through
collective community action ..........................................................218
Suhas P. Wani, K.H. Anantha and William D. Dar, International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
A blueprint for sustainable groundwater management in
Balochistan, Pakistan ....................................................................222
Shahbaz Mushtaq, Kathryn Reardon-Smith and Roger Stone, Australian Centre for
Sustainable Catchments, University of Southern Queensland, Australia; and Syed
Mohammad Khair, Balochistan University of Information, Technology, Engineering
and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan
Water cooperation – the Brazilian case ..........................................225
Paulo Augusto Cunha Libânio, Water Resources Specialist,
National Water Agency, Brazil
Environmental rehabilitation of the Lake Pátzcuaro watershed,
Michoacán, Mexico .......................................................................229
Miguel A. Córdova, Appropriate and Industrial Technology Subdivision Head,
Mexican Institute of Water Technology and Ramón Pérez Gil Salcido, Director,
Water Program, Gonzalo Río Arronte Foundation
Suez Environnement’s contribution to water cooperation issues:
he case of Algiers . .........................................................................233
Jean-Louis Chaussade, CEO, Suez Environnement
Preparing Denmark for climate changes.........................................237
Jan Tøibner, Aarhus Water Ltd.
Developing community water services and cooperation in Finland
and the South ...............................................................................240
Tapio S. Katko, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Water Services, Tampere
University of Technology; and Antti Rautavaara, Senior Water Advisor,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Examples of cooperation in the Czech Republic flood forecasting
and information service .................................................................245
Jan Danhelka, Eva Soukalova and Lucie Brezkova, Czech Hydrometeorological
Institute; and Jan Cernik, Czech Development Agency
Wetland cooperation is taking care of water ..................................248
Tobias Salathé, Senior Advisor, Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Better late than never.....................................................................252
Dr Claudine Brelet, HDR
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