The Social Side of River Management

ISBN: 9781536112566 出版年：2011 页码：171 Wouter T de Groot Jeroen Warner Nova Science

River management faces many challenges worldwide including climate change, flood risks and the demand for more adaptive and ‘ecosystem-based’ systems. Instead of raising the dikes even higher, the new adage for river managers is to give the rivers more space to drain their waters. This in turn implies that river management will become a social business, with strong involvement of local communities. This new book offers various examples and theories on how to avoid conflict and enter into fruitful relationships with river communities