General Concepts and Processes; Mountain Specificities -- Framing the Study of Mountain Water Resources: An Introduction -- "Water Towers"-A Global View of the Hydrological Importance of Mountains -- The History of Irrigation and Water Control in China'S Erhai Catchment: Mitigation and Adaptation to Environmental Change -- Scarcity, Equity, and Transparency: General Principles for Successfully Governing the Water Commons -- From Principles to Action: Incentives to Enforce Common Property Water Management -- Multiple Uses and Competition for Mountain Water -- Hydroelectric Resources Between State and Market in the Alpine Countries -- Crans-Montana: Water Resources Management in an Alpine Tourist Resort -- Water Conflicts and Conflict Resolution Mechanisms -- Water Value, Water Management, and Water Conflict: A Systematic Approach -- Evolutionary Explanations of Syrian-Turkish Water Conflict -- Water Use and Risk: the Use of Prospect Theory to Guide Public Policy Decision-Making -- Indigenous Knowledge; Technical Solutions -- Disasters, Development, and Glacial Lake Control in Twentieth-Century Peru -- Wetlands and Indigenous Knowledge in the Highlands of Western Ethiopia -- A New Ancient Water Mill:Remembering Former Techniques -- Water-Related Natural Disasters: Strategies to Deal With Debris Flows: The Case of Tschengls, Italy -- Flood Volume Estimation and Flood Mitigation: Adige River Basin -- Hydrological Assessment for Selected Karstic Springs in the Mountain Regions of Bulgaria -- Policy Implications for Efficient and Equitable Water Use -- Water and Mountains, Upstream and Downstream: Analyzing Unequal Relations -- Creating a Policy Environment for Sustainable Water use.