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1 King, J. M.; Tharme, R. E.; de Villiers, M. S. (Eds.) 2008. Environmental flow assessments for rivers: manual for the building block methodology. Updated edition. Gezina, South Africa: Water Research Commission. 339p. (WRC Report No. TT 354/08)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G178 KIN Record No: H044214)
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2 Booysen, H. J.; Viljoen, M. F. 1999. Flood damage functions, models and a computer program for irrigation and urban areas in South Africa. Vol. 1 - Irrigation areas. Pretoria, South Africa: Water Research Commission. 300p. (WRC Report No. 690/1/99)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G178 BOO Record No: H044215)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044248)
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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 as the overriding concept behind European water policy, the river basin has been conjured up and mobilized in evolving contexts with varying intentions. Associated with utopian ideas of the late 19th century, it supported ideas of full control of the hydrologic regime and multipurpose dam construction in the 1930–1960 period, then partly faded and was revived to address water-quality problems, before reemerging in the 1990s as the cornerstone of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), enriched and blended with watershed- and ecosystem-management approaches. This article recounts the evolution of the concept of a river basin and how it has been associated with various strands of thinking and sometimes co-opted or mobilized by particular social groups or organizations to strengthen the legitimacy of their agendas. Beyond its relevance as a geographical unit for water resources development and management purposes, the river basin is also a political and ideological construct, with its discursive representations and justifications, closely linked with shifting scalar configurations, both ecological and in terms of regulatory regime or governance. How interconnected and nested waterscapes can be managed by discontinuous nested political/administrative and social levels remains a fundamental question fuelling an endless search for elusive governance systems that would unite nature and society.
4 Armstrong, L. (Ed.) 2011. Hydraulic modeling and GIS. Redlands, CA, USA: ESRI Press. 73p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 624.0258 G000 ARM Record No: H044411)
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5 Ghani, A. A.; Zakaria, N. A.; Abdullah, R.; Ahamad, M. S. S. (Eds.) 2004. Rivers' 04: proceedings of the 1st international conference on Managing Rivers in the 21st Century - Issues and Challenges, Penang, Malaysia, 21-23 September 2004. Penang, Malaysia: River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC). 667p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 GHA Record No: H045965)
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6 Melby, P. (Ed.) 1995. Simplified irrigation design. 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: John Wiley. 230p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 631.7 G000 MEL Record No: H046041)
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7 New Zealand. Works Consultancy Services. 1994. Rehabilitation of the Stung Chinit Irrigation Scheme, Cambodia: prefeasibility study. Prepared for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Asia Development Assistance Facility. Wellington, New Zealand: Works Consultancy Services. 76p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 627.52 G700 WOR Record No: H046350)
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