ABSTRACT
This book follows in the footsteps of a geography text, Water, Earth and Man (Chorley, 1969), which brought together authors from the physical science, social science and humanities areas of geography to set down what were at that stage separate agenda items, components of an integrated approach to river basins. In the final chapter of Water, Earth and Man, O’Riordan and More (1969) set a very perceptive agenda for the future development of water resources:
Thus, whereas the vehicles of water-resources planning are becoming more massive and complex, the requirement for their manoeuvrability is also increasing, and the aim of all future planning is to produce a largescale and completely integrated scheme capable of constant reevaluation.
