Water Resilience

Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Emergence of Water Resilience: an introduction.- Part II: Examining water systems through the lens of resilience.- Chapter 2. Water Policy and Governance in Transition: The EU Water Framework Directive.- Chapter 3. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)-California's Prescription for Common Challenges of Groundwater Governance.- Chapter 4. Water Policy Reform for Sustainable Development in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Insights from Resilience Thinking.- Chapter 5. Reducing Nutrient Loading from Agriculture to Lake Ecosystems - Contributions of Resilience Principles.- Chapter 6. Reconfiguring water governance for resilient social-ecological systems in South America.- Part III: Exploring the conceptual boundaries and bridges of water resilience.- Chapter 7. Capacities for watershed resilience: persistence, adaptation, and transformation.- Chapter 8. Adaptive Governance in North American Water Systems:  a legal perspective on resilience and reconciliation.- Chapter 9. Cross-scale Governance for Urban Water Resilience in Bengaluru and Cape Town.- Chapter 10. Facing Change: Understanding Transitions of River Basin Policies Over Time.- Chapter 11. Conditions and Cautions for Transforming Ocean Governance.- Chapter 12. Extraordinary governance to avoid extraordinary events. Part IV: Conclusion.- Chapter 13. Charting a course for management and governance dimensions of water resilience.

Julia Baird's research interests centre around water. She agrees with the notion that water issues are ultimately issues of governance, and so her research focuses on human dimensions of water resources. Within this broad area, she is particularly interested in: