| Description |
1 online resource (173 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Institutional Innovation in Water Management -- The Move Towards Reform -- Themes in Contemporary Management -- A Broadening Perspective -- Integration -- Expanding the Range of Choice -- Water as an Economic Good -- Public Involvement -- Associated Developments -- Increasing Government Involvement -- The River Basin as an Areal Unit for Planning and Management -- Broadening the Range of Specialists -- Increasing the Sophistication of Planning |
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The Nature and Pace of Change -- The Scottish Experience -- Chapter 2: Antecedents -- The Initial Allocation of Public Health Functions to Local Authorities -- Variations in the Ability to Provide a Water Supply -- Sewerage and Sewage Treatment -- Local Government Reform -- Control of River Pollution -- The Scottish Advisory Committee on River Pollution Prevention -- Housing and Health -- Unemployment and Industrial Development -- Government Intervention -- Chapter 3: Reshaping the Management of Water Supplies -- The Drought of 1933 -- Early Legislation and the Role of DHS |
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Planning for Post-War Development -- The Rural Water Supplies and Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1944 -- A National Water Policy and its Relevance to Scotland -- The Water (Scotland) Act 1946 -- The Water (Scotland) Act 1949 -- The New Acts in Operation -- Re-Assessment in the 1960s -- The Scottish Water Advisory Committee's investigation -- Water for Central Scotland -- Alternatives for the Lothians -- Implementing the New Policy -- Moving Beyong the Central Belt -- The Water (Scotland) Act 1967 -- Reorganisation in Practice -- Chapter 4: Broadening the Perspective in the Management of Water Quality |
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The Scottish Advisory Committee on River Pollution Prevention -- The Context of a New Law of Pollution Control -- The Broun Lindsay Committee on River Pollution Prevention in Scotland -- The River (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951 -- Closing the Circle of Control: The Discharge of Trade Effluents -- Committee on the Disposal of Trade Effluents -- Implementing the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951 -- Second Thoughts on Bye-Laws -- The Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1965 -- Difficulties with Local Authority Sewerage and Sewage Treatment |
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The Sewage (Scotland) Act 1968 -- An Overview of the Broadening Approach to Water Quality Management -- Chapter 5: Scottish Water Management Reconsidered -- Water Supplies -- Evidence on Pollution Control and Waste Disposal -- Evidence on the Efficacy of Joint Administration Arrangements -- The Conclusions of the Wheatley Commission Relating to Water Management -- Controversy Over the Structure of Scottish Water Management -- Pressure to Reverse Policy on Pollution Prevention -- The Local Government Bill in Parliament -- Administrative Adjustments to the Pattern of River Purification Boards |
| Summary |
Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that institutional innovation is as important if not more so than improved technology in providing water for a growing world popula |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Regional Water Boards in the Light of a New Structure for Local Government |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Coppock, J. T
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Pitkethly, A
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| ISBN |
9780203210734 |
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0203210735 |
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