Water and the Environment, Gowing, John

Автор: Strang Veronica
Название: Gardening the World
ISBN: 1782381309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782381303
Издательство: Berghahn
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Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marginal groups are losing access to water as powerful elites protect their own interests, and entire ecosystems are being severely degraded. These problems are particularly evident in Australia, with its industrialised economy and arid climate. Yet there have been relatively few attempts to examine the social and cultural complexities that underlie people's engagements with water. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in two major Australian river catchments (the Mitchell River in Cape York, and the Brisbane River in southeast Queensland), this book examines their major water using and managing groups: indigenous communities, farmers, industries, recreational and domestic water users, and environmental organisations. It explores the issues that shape their different beliefs, values and practices in relation to water, and considers the specifically cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode in their material surroundings. Through an analysis of each group's diverse efforts to 'garden the world', it provides insights into the complexities of human-environmental relationships.

Автор: Groenfeldt
Название: Water Ethics
ISBN: 0815392028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815392026
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Fully revised and updated, this edition continues to consolidate "water ethics" as a dimension of water-related decisions, introducing the topic for environmental ethics and water governance students.

Автор: Lan Zhang, V. P. Singh
Название: Copulas and their Applications in Water Resources Engineering
ISBN: 110847425X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108474252
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book describes the basic concepts of copulas, and outlines current trends and developments in copula methodology and applications. Detailed case studies with real-world data illustrate the application of copulas to hydrology and water resources engineering, for researchers, professionals and graduate students.

Автор: Yahua Wang
Название: Assessing Water Rights in China
ISBN: 981135314X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811353147
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China’s water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics. It highlights the basic theory of water rights, with a view to helping Chinese policymakers acquire a deeper understanding of water rights and the need for a reform program in the long-term development of water-poor China. To do so, it draws on three main sources: Cheung SNS’s “Economic Explanation”, Douglas C. North’s “New Economic History” and Ray Huang’s “Macro History”.The book makes two essential contributions: it elaborates the hierarchical water governance structure in China, which originated in the Qin Dynasty that unified the country 2000 years ago and has been employed without interruption ever since; further, it constructs a choice model for water governance structures and advances the logic of making structural choices with minimum transaction costs under constraint conditions, while also explaining the inherent nature of China’s choice for the hierarchical structure from the perspectives of management cost and cooperation cost. As such, the book enriches and builds on the theories of the “water governance” school represented by Karl Marx, Karl Wittfogel and Ray Huang, laying the foundation for the further study of water rights theory in contemporary China.

Автор: Abdelazim M. Negm
Название: Conventional Water Resources and Agriculture in Egypt
ISBN: 3030069672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030069674
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This unique volume focuses on Egypt’s conventional water resources and the main water consumer: Egypt’s agriculture. It provides an up-to-date overview and the latest research findings, and covers the following main topics:· History of irrigation and irrigation projects· Key features of agriculture, the administrative and legal framework in Egypt· Land resources for agriculture development· Food insecurity due to water shortages and climate change; resulting challenges and opportunities· Assessment of water resources for irrigation and drinking purposes· Impacts of upstream dams, such as the GERD and Tekeze Dam, on Egypt’s water resources and crop yield· Sustainable use of water resources and the future of mega irrigation projects· Quantity and quality of water in Egypt’s water resources bankThis book and the companion volume Unconventional Water Resources and Agriculture in Egypt offer invaluable reference guides for postgraduates, researchers, professionals, environmental managers and policymakers interested in water resources and their management worldwide.

Автор: Chaturvedi, Mahesh Chandra
Название: India`s Waters
ISBN: 0367381834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367381837
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Regulation of India's rivers and other water systems has been evolving for thousands of years in the face of varying socioeconomic and technological conditions. India's Waters: Environment, Economy, and Development is a study of the current state of development, and proposed future development policies of the government of India, which is the developmental agency.

The author first addresses India's physical and hydrological environment. He explains how the government, using his research, has estimated its usable resources and water requirements for life, environment, and economy for the next half-century. The book describes how, based on its own assessment, the government has made detailed suggestions about developing India's water resources.

After covering the overall national study and analysis, the author addresses the current development of the major river basins-- the Indus and Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basins, as well as the Central, Peninsular and others. He follows with analysis of watershed, groundwater, and command area development. Inter-basin water transfer has been considered throughout India's long history. This book briefly details suggestions for interlinking India's rivers and concludes by presenting legal framework and institutional issues.

This is the first of Dr. M.C. Chaturvedi's three studies on the waters of India. The second, India's Waters: Advances in Development and Management, presents his proposals for revolutionizing their development, and the third focuses on development of the GBM basin, which is now an international river system. These studies are a unique contribution to the science and art of water resource development from a highly respected expert. He has designed most of the major projects in the Ganga basin and continues to teach and conduct research at the international level.

Автор: Razavi, Nasya Sara
Название: Water governance in bolivia
ISBN: 0367770121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367770129
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary of public versus private with a focus on the contested terrain of community engagement around water services.

Автор: Jeon
Название: Sustainable Development of Water and Environment
ISBN: 3030752801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030752804
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book addresses the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge-based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars, as well as methods for assessing and measuring sustainability of development, regarding water and environment. This book gathers scholar and experts in related fields. All attendees from a vast range of companies, universities and government institutions acquire advanced technical knowledge and are introduced to new fields through discussions that focus on their own specialties as well as a variety of interdisciplinary areas. The authors hope most of scholars can find what they really need in this book.

Автор: Vaseashta
Название: Water Safety, Security and Sustainability
ISBN: 3030760103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030760106
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book focuses on threats, especially contaminants, to drinking water and the supply system, especially in municipalities but also in industrial and even residential settings.

Автор: Wagner John Richard
Название: Social Life of Water
ISBN: 1782389105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782389101
Издательство: Berghahn
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Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.

Автор: Buddhi Wijesiri; An Liu; Prasanna Egodawatta; Jame
Название: Decision Making with Uncertainty in Stormwater Pollutant Processes
ISBN: 9811335060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811335068
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Описание: This book presents new findings on intrinsic variability in pollutant build-up and wash-off processes by identifying the characteristics of underlying process mechanisms, based on the behaviour of various-sized particles. The correlation between build-up and wash-off processes is clearly defined using heavy metal pollutants as a case study. The outcome of this study is an approach developed to quantitatively assess process uncertainty, which makes it possible to mathematically incorporate the characteristics of variability in build-up and wash-off processes into stormwater quality models. In addition, the approach can be used to quantify process uncertainty as an integral aspect of stormwater quality predictions using common uncertainty analysis techniques. The information produced using enhanced modelling tools will promote more informed decision-making, and thereby help to improve urban stormwater quality.

Автор: Christopher M. Teaf; Bulat K. Yessekin; Mikhail Kh
Название: Risk Assessment as a Tool for Water Resources Decision-Making in Central Asia
ISBN: 140201841X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781402018411
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Offers coverage of water resources topics and approaches to the assessment of the risks posed by chemicals and radionuclides. This book is of interest to scientists, regulatory decision-makers and public health professionals who have worked or plan to work in Central Asia.