Constance Elizabeth Hunt

Thirsty Planet (eBook, PDF)

Strategies for Sustainable Water Management

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective. She suggests that nature is the source of water and only by making the conservation of nature an absolute priority will we have the water we need for human use in future. It is essential , therefore, to manage water in ways that maintain the water cycle and the ecosystems that support it.

This book looks at the complexity of the problem. It provides a wide array of ideas, information, case studies and ecological knowledge - often from remote corners of the developing world -- that could provide an alternative vision for water use and management at this critical time.

Essential and compelling reading for students on courses related to water resource management and development; water managers and decision makers, and non-specialists with an interest in global water issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 321
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848130869
• Artikelnr.: 38357547

Autorenporträt

About the author

Constance Hunt is a biologist and environmentalist with considerable experience in international policy and global campaigns for water management and conservation. She is the recipient of awards from the National Research Council, US Department of Agriculture and US Army Corps of Engineers for outstanding work in the field of water resources management.

She has held a variety of posts. As Senior Advisor to the WWF's International Living Waters Campaign (1999-2001), she was responsible for basin-scale conservation for the Niger and Mekong Rivers and for working with the WWF network on international water policy issues. Before this (1993-99) she was Senior Programme Officer and Director of Freshwater Ecosystem Conservation for the WWF, managing policy and field projects for sustainable river and wetland management in the US and internationally. She has also served with the World Water Council. She is currently a Senior Advisor with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)'s Dams and Development Project, where she facilitates global dialogues on the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams.

She is the author/editor of two previous books on conservation, and of numerous articles on sustainable water resources development.