Transforming Water Management in South Africa : Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework - Schreiner, Barbara; Hassan, Rashid M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011)
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Political, Social and Economic Context of Changing Water Policy in South Africa Post-1994 -- 2. Water Resource Situation, Strategies and Allocation Regimes in South Africa -- 3. Water Services in South Africa 1994 - 2009 -- 4. Water, Sanitation and Wastewater Management: Some Questions for National Water Security in South Africa -- 5. Transforming Legal Access to Water to Redress Social Inequity and Economic Inefficiency -- 6. Protecting Aquatic Ecosystem Health for Sustainable Use -- 7. Catchment Management Agencies: A Case Study of Institutional Reform in South Africa -- 8. National Water Security: Planning and Implementation -- 9. Pricing of Water for Cost Recovery, Economic Efficiency and Social Equity -- 10. Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management in South Africa -- 11. The Role of Information Systems Management in the Management of Water -- 12. The Water Research Commission -- 13. Transboundary Water Management Issues Under the NWA and Regional Collaboration, Policies and Conventions -- 14. Lessons and Conclusions -- Index.
Keywords: Environmental economics; Environmental management; Agricultural economics; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Sustainable development; Development economics; Environmental Economics; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Agricultural Economics; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Sustainable Development; Development Economics