Adaptation to climate change through water resources management [electronic resource] : capacity, equity and sustainability / edited by Dominic Stucker and Elena Lopez-Gunn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. An introduction to adaptation to climate change through water resources management / Elena Lopez-Gunn and Dominic Stucker -- 2. Drought and water scarcity : discourses and competing water demands in the context of climate change in arid Sonora, Mexico / Katherine Curl, Carolina Neri and Christopher Scott -- 3. Adaptation to climate change-exacerbated water scarcity, droughts and flashfloods : the Khojabakirgansai, a small transboundary tributary of the Syr Darya in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan / Dominic Stucker, Jusipbek Kazbekov, Murat Yakubov and Kai Wegerich -- 4. Climate change and floods along the Brahmaputra : migration factors in Bangladesh / Robert Stojanov, Barbora Duzi and Jiri Jakubinsky -- 5. Farmers' perceptions of and responses to annual flood events in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta : adapting to climate change impacts / Van Kien Nguyen and Kim Alexander -- 6. Adapting water resources management to drought and water scarcity in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin : impacts and legacies of "the big dry" / Samantha J. Capon -- 7. Water management institutionalization in the Argentinean Pampas : a shift from rain-fed to groundwater-irrigated agriculture in the context of climate change / Constanza Riera -- 8. Water for rice farming and biodiversity : exploring choices for adaptation to climate change in Donana, southern Spain / Lucia De Stefano, Nuria Hernandez-Mora, Ana Iglesias and Berta Sanchez -- 9. Local perceptions of climate change and its impacts on indigenous fruit trees : water, adaptation and sustainability in Benin / Belarmain Fandohan and Aida Cuni Sanchez -- 10. Climate change adaptation and water in semi-arid regions : a case study of the Limpopo Basin, southern Africa / Stanley T. Mubako and Nazia Mintz-Habib -- 11. Whitewashing indigenous water rights in Canada : how can we indigenize climate change adaptation if we ignore the fundamentals? / Heather Castleden and Emily Skinner -- 12. Equity matters : introducing the capabilities approach in adaptation to climate change in river basins in Ghana and Peru / Annelieke Douma, Danielle Hirsch, Ken Kinney and Ralph Lasage -- 13. Climate change impacts on housing and property rights in Nigeria and Panama : toward a rights-based approach to adaptation and mitigation / Idowu Ajibade and Damilola S. Olawuyi -- 14. Climate change and transboundary initiatives in the Jordan River Basin : can civil society show the way? / Lucy Michaels -- 15. State fragility and adaptation to climate change in water scarce areas : a case study of the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan / Humaira Daniel and Zahid Shahab Ahmed -- 16. Barriers and aids to developing adaptive capacity in the water sector : South Florida water management case study / Jessica Bolson and Galen Treuer -- 17. Adopting the framework of river basin planning for climate change adaptation in Spain / Elisa Vargas, Elena Lopez-Gunn, Gema Huelva and Teodoro Estrela -- 18. The discursive framing of climate threats and opportunities in the Netherlands' water sector / Arwin van Buuren and Jeroen Warner -- 19. Irrigation water conservation and market-based approaches : balancing agricultural and urban water demands in the face of climate change in Jordan's Azraq Basin / Raed Al-Tabini, Octavio A. Ramirez, Richard Phillips and Frank Ward -- 20. Barriers and bridges to adaptation to climate change through water resources management : a synthesis / Dominic Stucker and Elena Lopez-Gunn.