Water
eBook - PDF

Water

Global Common and Global Problems

  1. 548 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Water

Global Common and Global Problems

About this book

Water is one of the most essential element for the survival of living beings. With the increase in demand and decreasing quality and quantity, water has become one of the major issues and problems in the world today. It is unevenly distributed geographically and temporally, resulting in surpluses for some people and a threat for others. This book c

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781578084098
eBook ISBN
9781439842867
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Agriculture
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. General Overview
  7. Chapter 2. Water and Food Insecurity in Developing Countries: Major Challenges for the 21st Century
  8. Section 1. Freshwater—Groundwater, Surface Water
  9. Chapter 3. Freshwater—A Scarce Resource: Its Global Utilization and Sustainable Work Practices in Melbourne, Australia
  10. Chapter 4. State of Water Quality and its Management in India
  11. Chapter 5. Status of Freshwater in Sri Lanka: From a Precious Resource to a Commodity Wasted and Mismanaged
  12. Chapter 6. Strategic Impact Assessment and Root Causes of Pollution in a Transboundary Drainage Basin in Brazil
  13. Chapter 7. Water Regulation through Two Transitions: The Case of Hungary
  14. Chapter 8. Liquid Waste Management Practices and the Efficient Reuse Strategies with Reference to Melbourne, Australia
  15. Chapter 9. Drinking Water Contaminants and Human Health
  16. Chapter 10. Projections of Climate Change on Precipitation Intensities, and Implications to Urban Infrastructure
  17. Chapter 11. Climate Change, Water and Poverty in the Morogoro Region, Tanzania
  18. Section 2. Governance, Institutions,Laws and Policies
  19. Chapter 12. Water Governance and Water Economics
  20. Chapter 13. Water Basin Regimes in Europe and Institutional Conditions for their Sustainability
  21. Chapter 14. Public Participation in Water Management
  22. Chapter 15. Intergovernmental Challenges of Watershed Management: Strategies for Improving Watershed Governance
  23. Chapter 16. Sustainability and Freshwater in the Western United States
  24. Chapter 17. Governance in Abundance and Scarcity: The Development of Water Rights in the Great Lakes and Murray-Darling Basins
  25. Chapter 18. GAPs in the Dialogue of Governance: Conflicting Ideologies of Development in Turkey
  26. Chapter 19. Integrated Water Resources Management: A Catalyst for Regional Cooperation?
  27. Chapter 20. Water Scarcity and Water Wars in the Middle East?
  28. Section 3. Best Practices Management
  29. Chapter 21. Community-based Watersheds:A Novel Approach to Sustainable Freshwater Management
  30. Chapter 22. Freshwater Management in Industrialized Urban Areas:The Role of Water Conservation
  31. Section 4. Human Rights
  32. Chapter 23. Introduction to Human Rights Section
  33. Chapter 24. Water: A Human Right
  34. Chapter 25. Financing the Human Right to Water as a Millennium Development Goal
  35. Index
  36. Color Plate Section
  37. Back Cover