Screen LibraryHydrology and water resource management ; : breakthroughs in research and practice /
This book is an innovative source of scholarly research on the latest technologies and techniques in optimizing current processes in managing water resources. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as climate change, sustainability, and water treatment.
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| Corporate Authors: | ; |
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IGI Global,
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| Publisher Address: | Hershey, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2017] ©2018 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-3427-3 |
| Summary: |
This book is an innovative source of scholarly research on the latest technologies and techniques in optimizing current processes in managing water resources. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as climate change, sustainability, and water treatment. |
| Carrier Form: | 23 PDFs (xi, 443 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781522534280 |
| Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
| Index Number: | TC405 |
| CLC: | TV213 |
| Contents: | Section 1. Climate change. Chapter 1. Entangled systems at the energy-water-food nexus: challenges and opportunities ; Chapter 2. Climate change and agriculture: time for a responsive and responsible system of watermanagement ; Chapter 3. Environmental vulnerability to climate change in Mediterranean Basin: socio-ecological interactions between north and south ; Chapter 4. Climate change impacts on surface water quality ; Chapter 5. Sustainable land use and watershed management in tesponse to climate change impacts: case study in Srepok Watershed, Central Highland of Vietnam -- Section 2. Economics. Chapter 6. "Virtual water" and Occam's razor: an explanation from the perspective of economics of water ; Chapter 7. What price for ecosystem services in China? Comparing three valuation methods for water quality improvement ; Chapter 8. Valuation and market-based pricing of economic and ecosystem services of water resources -- Section 3. Environmental management. Chapter 9. Coastal impervious cover and watershed scale: implications for environmental management, New Hanover County, North Carolina ; Chapter 10. Water scarcity and conflicts: can water futures exchange in South Asia provide the answer? ; Chapter 11. Site-suitability analysis for the identification of potential sites to construct rain water harvesting systems ; Chapter 12. Management and modeling of waste Water treatment systems ; Chapter 13. Hydrological risk phenomena and flood analysis: study case Taita Catchment, Romania -- Section 4. Governance, policy, and society. Chapter 14. Adaptive coevolution: realigning the water governance regime to the changing climate ; Chapter 15. Water and sanitation: a case study for policy implication to reaching global development goals in developing nations ; Chapter 16. Water crises in urban-rural gradients of African drylands: insights into opportunities and constraints ; Chapter 17. Youths' economic and regulatory traits in water resources management as a precursor for good water governance ; Chapter 18. Issues with water quality: how do we get our fellow citizens to care? ; Chapter 19. Youths' social traits in water management as a precursor for good water governance. |