The concept of a river basin as a management or planning unit has gone through several
stages and is in a state of flux. From its western “discovery” in the 18th century to its advent …

Water management is commonly assumed to be a mere technical matter where experts and
managers endeavour to match supply and demand by using technology, through rational …

This article engages with the currently hegemonic status of a triad of water policy
prescriptions: multi-stakeholder platforms, integrated water resources management, and …

Associated with utopian ideas of the late nineteenth century, it supported ideas of full control
of the hydrologic regime and multi-purpose dam construction in the 1930–1970 period, then …

This book examines recent developments in river (flood) management from the viewpoint of
Making Space for the River and the resulting challenges for water governance. Different …

Using a variety of case studies, this book provides an overview of how societies have
gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such …

This paper seeks to develop an alternative account of the geographies of environmental
governance to those current conceptions which tend to take space and scale for granted as …

The once deeply engrained idea that water management should be considered as a
technical endeavour that is appropriately confined to hydrological science and hydraulic …

We define and explore hydrosocial territories as spatial configurations of people, institutions,
water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the …

Abstract The European Union Water Framework Directive (EU WFD, 2000) calls for active
inclusion of the public in the governance of waterbodies to enhance the effectiveness and …