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Product Description This book provides a broad overview of the most important and emerging concepts, frameworks, methods and tools in the areas of integrated water resources management (IWRM) and adaptive management (AM), including: principles of IWRM; water resources planning; developing an integrated watershed management plan; adaptive management; adaptive capacity and adaptive governance; social learning through collaboration; water governance, law and policy; water risk and opportunities for businesses; and a discussion of some of the main challenges water managers will face in the future. Some unique features of the book are that it provides considerable detail on, among other things: both IWRM and AM; businesses and IWRM; social learning and water management; and numerous detailed case studies in both the developed and developing world. About the Author Jan Adamowski, M.B.A., Ph.D., Director, Integrated Water Resources Management Program; Associate Director, Brace Centre for Water Resources Management; Assistant Professor, Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. ----- Cory Zyla, M.Sc. (Integrated Water Resources Management), Environmental Scientist and Project Manager, Ecofish Research; Researcher, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. ----- Eduardo Ganem Cuenca, M.Sc. (Integrated Water Resources Management), Project Manager, Agricultural Greenhouse Gases Program, (McGill University); Instructor for the Online Certification in Integrated and Adaptive Water Resources Planning, Management and Governance, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. ----- Wietske Medema, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. ----- Murray Clamen, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Integrated Water Resources Management Program, McGill University, Quebec, Canada; Former Secretary of the International Joint Commission (Canadian Section), Ottawa, Canada. ----- Paul Reig, M.Sc. (Integrated Water Resources Ma