Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Management
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Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Management

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Management

About this book

Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Management is a pioneering international text, exploring and developing this emerging discipline. It is the first to take an international perspective seeking to draw generic lessons from both the developed and developing nations' experience in this new area of activity. The approach is being applied in policy development to strengthen the 'evidence-base' and across a wide spectrum of resource developments, industrial and urban infrastructure projects and in 'aid' projects in developing countries. 

This book illustrates the importance of considering health in water management developments and demonstrates the role of health impact assessment (HIA) in this process. Case-studies illustrate a range of management approaches to different system implementation issues and scale factors, ranging from domestic rainwater harvesting for the supply of non-potable water to a large-scale hydroelectric project. The concept, objectives, terminology and challenges of HIA are introduced and illustrated by case studies including rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, sustainable drainage and evaluations of the health impacts of flooding. Developing country case studies include a small-scale irrigation project in Zimbabwe, a large hydro-electric scheme in Lao (Peoples Democratic Republic) and the implementation issues surrounding the use of domestic wastewater as a resource in demand by agricultural enterprises in Pakistan. 

The case studies illustrate different HIA approaches, including the use of quantitative and qualitative information and provide benchmarks of current practice for practitioners seeking to apply HIA in the emerging agendas in both developed and developing nations. The critical appraisals within each chapter offer both best practice exemplars as well as explanations of problems and mistakes of past project implementation, and define the requirements for the policy communities who will be increasingly required to accommodate HIA information in resource allocation decisions. As a result, this book will be of interest to planners, developers, policy makers, public health, environmental and water utility scientists and practitioners.

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Yes, you can access Health Impact Assessment for Sustainable Water Management by Lorna Fewtrell,David Kay,M. Benjamin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Half-Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Foreward
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Chapter 1: Health impact assessment for sustainable water management: the lay of the land
  10. Chapter 2: An overview of UK-based HIA research on water management and flooding
  11. Chapter 3: Rainwater harvesting – an HIA of rainwater harvesting in the UK
  12. Chapter 4: HIA of sustainable drainage options in the UK
  13. Chapter 5: HIA of greywater reuse in the UK
  14. Chapter 6: Flooding and health – an evaluation of the health impacts of urban pluvial flooding in the UK
  15. Chapter 7: An exploratory quantitative microbial risk assessment of urban flooding and gastro intestinal illness
  16. Chapter 8: Mupfure irrigation project, Zimbabwe. HIA of a water resources development
  17. Chapter 9: Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project, Lao PDR
  18. Chapter 10: Raw wastewater use in agriculture; risk versus benefits
  19. Chapter 11: Concluding remarks