Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics
eBook - PDF

Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics

UNESCO-IHP

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics

UNESCO-IHP

About this book

Excess water in the urban environment results in flooding, which causes structural damage, risks to personal safety and disruption to city life. Water is also a major contributory factor for disease transmission as well as being the medium for transport of many pollutants. These problems are of increasing concern due to climate changes and are parti

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Yes, you can access Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics by Jonathan N. Parkinson, Joel Avruch Goldenfum, Carlos Tucci in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Civil Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Boxes
  7. Acronyms
  8. Glossary
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Chapter 1. Integrated urban water management in the humid tropics
  11. Chapter 2. Water supply and wastewater management in the humid tropics
  12. Chapter 3. Stormwater management in the humid tropics
  13. Chapter 4. Interactions between solid waste management and urban stormwater drainage
  14. Chapter 5. Control of public health hazards in the humid tropics
  15. Chapter 6. Reducing vulnerability to water-related disasters in urban areas of the humid tropics
  16. Chapter 7. Integrated urban water management: institutional, legal and socioeconomic issues
  17. Chapter 8. Education and capacity-building
  18. Index
  19. Back cover