Water Policy for Sustainable Development

David Lewis Feldman served for many years as a faculty member at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Planning, Policy & Design at the School of Social Ecology, University of California-Irvine. He is the editor of Energy Crisis: Unresolved Issues and Enduring Legacies and Water Resources Management: In Search of an Environmental Ethic, both published by Johns Hopkins.

• Preface1. Water and Sustainability: Facing the Challenges2. U.S. and International Water Resource Management Efforts: Legacy and Lessons3. Five U.S. River Basin Initiatives: Case Studies in Search of Sustainable Development4. Water Quality and Quantity: The Critical Interface5. Toward Sound Ethical Alternatives for Water Resources Management6. Water Resources Management as an Adaptive ProcessAppendix: River Basin Initiative SurveyNotesBibliographyIndex

There are sure to be audiences receptive to the important messages contained. -- Linda Nowlan Alternatives Journal 2008 The book's comprehensive research and practical analyses bring new insight to the global and political challenges of preserving and managing one of the planet's most important resources. Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment 2008 Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate through professional public policy collections. Choice 2008 An eclectic and engaging account... generally inspired and should be read with a note-taking pen in hand. -- Mark Zeitoun Environment and Planning C: Gov't and Policy 2008