Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge

Preface; General Concepts and Processes; Mountain Specificities.- 1. Framing the Study of Mountain Water Resources: An Introduction.- 2. ‘Water Towers’ – A Global View of thee Hydrological Importance of Mountains.- 3. The History of Irrigation and Water Control in China’s Erhai Catchment: Mitigation and Adaptation to Environmental Change.- 4. Scarcity, Equity, and Transparency: General Principles for Successfully Governing the Water Commons.- 5. From Principles to Action: Incentives to Enforce Common Property Water Management.- Multiple Uses and Competition for Mountain Water.- 6. Hydroelectric Resources between State and Market in the Alpine Countries.- Example of Water Rights: Concessions in the Valais, Switzerland.- 7. Cans0Montana: Water Resources Management in an Alpine Tourist Resort.- Water Conflicts and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms.- 8. Water Value, Water management, and Water Conflict: A Systematic Approach.- 9. Evolutionary Explanations of Syrian-Turkish Water Conflict.- 10 Water Use and Risk: The use of Prospect theory to Guide Public Policy Decision-Making.- Indigenous Knowledge; Technical Solutions.- 11. Disasters, Development, and Glacial Lake Control in Twentieth-Century Peru.- 12. Wetlands and Indigenous Knowledge in the Highlands of Western Ethiopia.- 13. A New Ancient Water Mill: Remembering Former Techniques.- 14. Water-Related natural disasters: Strategies to Deal with Debris Flows: The Cast of Tschengls, Italy.- 15. Flood Volume Estimation and Flood Mitigation: Adige River Basin.- 16. Hydrological Assessment for Selected Karstic Springs in the Mountain Regions of Bulgaria.- Policy Implications for Efficient and Equitable Water Use.- 17. Water and Mountains, Upstream and downstream: Analyzing Unequal Relations.- 18. Creating a Policy Environment for Sustainable Water Use.- Bibliography.- Index.