SECTION 1 Introduction and international perspectives -- 1. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM): The international experience / M. Ait Kadi -- 2. Integrated Water Resources Management: State of the art and the way forward / M.R. Llamas -- 3. Non-Integrated Water Resources Management / T. Shah -- 4. Contemporary responses to water management challenges / X. Leflaive -- 5. Water policy, agricultural trade and WTO rules / L. Tamiotti -- SECTION 2 Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons learnt in Spain -- 6. Virtual water trade, food security and sustainability: Lessons from Latin America and Spain / A. Garrido -- 7. Ten years of the Water Framework Directive in Spain: An overview of the ecological and chemical status of surface water bodies / N. Hernandez-Mora -- 8. Intensive groundwater use in agriculture and IWRM: An impossible marriage? / P. Martinez-Santos.

9. Future Institutions? On the evolution in Spanish institutions from policy takers to policy makers / F. Villarroya -- 10. Urban water, an essential part of Integrated Water Resources Management / E. Custodio -- SECTION 3 Selected case studies on Integrated Water Resources Management -- 11. Integrated water resources in Peru -- The long road ahead / J.I. Montenegro -- 12. Integrated water management in Chile / G. Donoso -- 13. Towards IWRM in the upper Guadiana basin, Spain / J.A.R. Cabellos -- 14. Water resource vulnerability & adaptation management to climate change & human activity in North China / J. Xia -- 15. Blue water transfer versus virtual water transfer in China -- with a focus on the South-North Water Transfer Project / J.G. Liu -- 16. The institutional organization of irrigation in Spain and other Mediterranean countries / E. Lopez-Gunn.