Water Resources Planning and Management (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Grafton, R. Quentin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever published on water resource issues. It brings together multiple disciplines to understand and help resolve problems of water quality and scarcity from a global perspective. Its case studies and 'foundation' chapters will be greatly valued by students, researchers and professionals involved in water resources, hydrology, governance and public policy, law, economics, geography and environmental studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511994258
• Artikelnr.: 37832759

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction;
Part I. Understanding 'Water': 1. Climate change and the global water
cycle; 2. Understanding global hydrology; 3. Groundwater and surface water
connectivity; 4. Understanding the basics of water quality; 5. Inland water
ecosystems; 6. Water, biodiversity and ecosystems: reducing our impact; 7.
Global food production in a water constrained world: exploring 'green' and
'blue' challenges and solutions; Part II. Water Resources Planning and
Management: 8. Water law and the search for sustainability: a comparative
analysis; 9. Tackling the global water crisis: unlocking international law
as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world's shared
transboundary waters - introducing 'the H2O paradigm'; 10. Risk and
uncertainty in water resources planning and management: a basic
introduction; 11. Collaboration and stakeholder engagement; 12. Capacity
building and knowledge sharing; 13. Adaptive and integrated management of
water resources; 14. Gender and integrated water resource management; 15.
Environmental flows: achieving ecological outcomes in variable
environments; Part III. Water Resources Planning and Management - Case
Studies: Section 1. Water and Waste Water Treatment: 16. Overcoming water
scarcity in Perth, Western Australia; 17. Cities, agriculture and
environment - sharing water in and around Hyderabad, South India; 18.
Pricing of urban water services: the case of France; 19. Collaborative
flood and drought risk management in the Upper Iskar Basin, Bulgaria;
Section 2. Agricultural Water Use: 20. The role of research and development
in drought adaptation on the Colorado River Basin; 21. Climate change in
the Murray-Darling Basin: implications for water use and environmental
consequences; Section 3. Urban Water Supply and Management: 22. The urban
water challenge in Australian cities; 23. Water sensitive urban design; 24.
Water security for Adelaide, South Australia; Section 4. Aquatic
Ecosystems: 25. Groundwater contamination in Bangladesh; Section 5.
Industrial and Mining Water Use: 26. Water issues in Canada's tar sands;
27. Science, governance, and environmental impacts of mines in developing
countries: lessons from Ok Tedi in Papua New Guinea; Section 6. Rural and
Remote Communities: 28. Aboriginal access to water in Australia:
opportunities and constraints; 29. Providing for social equity in water
markets: the case for an indigenous reserve in northern Australia; Section
7. Water Infrastructure Design and Operation: 30. Flood hazard, floodplain
policy and flood management; Section 8. Managing Water Across Borders: 31.
Decision making in the Murray-Darling Basin; 32. Challenges to water
cooperation in the lower Jordan River Basin; 33. Adaptation and change in
Yellow River management; 34. Managing international river basins: successes
and failures of the Mekong River Commission; Section 9. Market Mechanisms
in Water Management: 35. Inter-sectoral water trading as a climate change
adaptation strategy; Contributors' biographies; Index.