Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance – serie
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Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods
The Role of Policies and Governance
Av Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2513 kr
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This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider …
Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Middle East and North Africa
Av Martin Keulertz, Eckart Woertz
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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This book discusses key issues concerning water, energy and food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It provides an interdisciplinary account of current developments in the most water-scarce and conflict-torn region in the world. Key analysts on MENA water, agriculture and energy …
Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Av Anik Bhaduri, Claudia Ringler m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
502 kr
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It is beyond doubt that the interconnectedness between food, energy, water security and environmental sustainability exists and is getting amplified with increased globalization. It has been recognized that efforts to address only one part of a systemic problem by neglecting other inherently …
Water Reuse Policies for Potable Use
Av Cecilia Tortajada, Choon Nam Ong
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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As water demand has increased globally and resources have become more limited because of physical scarcity, over-exploitation and pollution, it has been necessary to develop more options for water supplies. These options include the production at large scale of high-quality reused water from …
Integrated Water Resources Management
From concept to implementation
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include the …
Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity
Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle
Av Rutgerd Boelens, Ben Crow m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of …
Water Legacies of Conventional Mining
Av James E. Nickum, David B. Brooks m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
690 kr
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The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much as – or even more than – hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The legacy issues of such mining on water have not been fully appreciated, especially the irretrievable effects mining …
Energy For Water
Regional Case Studies
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other. This book explores the "energy for water" component of the water–energy nexus. It offers diverse case studies from around the world …
Politics and Policies for Water Resources Management in India
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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This comprehensive volume explores the interface between politics and policy making in the water management sector of India. The authors discuss the nature of the political discourse on water management in India, and what characterizes this discourse. They also explore how this discourse has …
Rural–Urban Water Struggles
Urbanizing Hydrosocial Territories and Evolving Connections, Discourses and Identities
Av Lena Hommes, Rutgerd Boelens m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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Rural–Urban Water Struggles compiles diverse analyses of rural–urban water connections, discourses, identities and struggles evolving in the context of urbanization around the world.Departing from an understanding of urbanization as a process of constant making and remaking of multi-scalar …
Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy
Av Mara Tignino, Raya Marina Stephan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy deals with the interaction of science and policy from a legal perspective.Expert contributors outline the role of law in water management and suggest solutions to make laws flexible and adaptive to changes in scientific knowledge and environmental, …
Virtual Water
Implications for Agriculture and Trade
Av Chittaranjan Ray, David McInnes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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Virtual Water explores the role of "virtual water" – the water embedded in a product – in ongoing conversations of agriculture, trade and sustainability in an increasingly inter-connected world.A pervasive theme throughout the book is the general lack of knowledge of the use of water in producing …
Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods
The Role of Policies and Governance
Av Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider …
OECD Principles on Water Governance
From policy standards to practice
Av Aziza Akhmouch, Delphine Clavreul m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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The science–policy interface is critical to the design and implementation of water policies. In theory, scientists provide policy makers with robust facts and data that can help guide decision making, and lessons from the political economy of reforms can push scientific boundaries further to …
Integrated Water Management in Canada
The Experience of Watershed Agencies
Av Dan Shrubsole, Dan Walters m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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This volume provides readers with an opportunity to learn from front line water managers of watershed-based agencies across Canada about integrated water management (or integrated water resource management). In common with practice in much of the world, the responsibility for implementing …
Groundwater and Climate Change
Multi-Level Law and Policy Perspectives
Av Philippe Cullet, Raya Marina Stephan
Häftad, 2020
636 kr
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This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels. A particular focus is given to India, which is the largest user of groundwater in the world, and where groundwater …
Legal Mechanisms for Water Resources in the Third Millennium
Select papers from the IWRA XIV and XV World Water Congresses
Av Marcella Nanni, Stefano Burchi m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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Legal mechanisms for the management, development and protection of water resources have evolved over the years and have reached unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication. This phenomenon is largely in response to the global community’s sustainable development agenda, to the challenges …
Flood Resilience of Private Properties
Av Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone …
Flood Resilience of Private Properties
Av Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone …
River Flows Through It
A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia
Av Selina Ho
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate.Water scarcity is a major environmental, societal, and economic …
River Flows Through It
A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia
Av Selina Ho
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate.Water scarcity is a major environmental, societal, and economic …
Putting Water Security to Work
Addressing Global Sustainable Development Challenges
Av Chad Staddon, Christopher A. Scott
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water. This reframing has offered benefits (including clear recognition of the link between humans, the environment and the right to water) and also posed challenges (the tendency in …
Putting Water Security to Work
Addressing Global Sustainable Development Challenges
Av Chad Staddon, Christopher A. Scott
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water. This reframing has offered benefits (including clear recognition of the link between humans, the environment and the right to water) and also posed challenges (the tendency in …
Strengthening Cooperation over Transboundary Groundwater Resources
Av Gabriel Eckstein, Alice Aureli
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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Groundwater is humanity’s most vital supply of freshwater. Freshwater resources contained in aquifer systems globally are two orders of magnitude greater than those found in all rivers, lakes, and other surface freshwaters combined. Moreover, approximately one half of the world’s population today …
Strengthening Cooperation over Transboundary Groundwater Resources
Av Gabriel Eckstein, Alice Aureli
Häftad, 2024
692 kr
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Groundwater is humanity’s most vital supply of freshwater. Freshwater resources contained in aquifer systems globally are two orders of magnitude greater than those found in all rivers, lakes, and other surface freshwaters combined. Moreover, approximately one half of the world’s population today …
Transboundary Water Cooperation
Principles, Practice and Prospects for China and Its Neighbours
Av Patricia Wouters, Huiping Chen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
663 kr
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China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these operate in China is of global …
Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership
Av Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada
Inbunden, 2005
2588 kr
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There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what does …
Water Management in Megacities
Av Cecilia Tortajada, Olli Varis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
765 kr
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Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental …
Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa
Av Asit Biswas, Eglal Rached m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2588 kr
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Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than two billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United Nations …
Water and Disasters
Av Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Norio Okada
Inbunden, 2007
2513 kr
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This book is the first major attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, the many issues associated with water and disasters. It is particularly relevant and topical in view of the increasing frequency and intensity of water-triggered disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years, …
