Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change A North-South Analysis /
How can the Earth’s finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis? The need to find answers to this question has exercised the minds of many scientists, practitioners and policymakers who recognise the urgency of...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2007.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Shift in thinking to address the 21st century hunger gap
- A grid-based assessment of global water scarcity including virtual water trading
- Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern
- Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change
- Stakeholder-driven, enquiry-driven, or stakeholder-relevant, enquiry-driven science?
- Learning Alliances for the broad implementation of an integrated approach to multiple sources, multiple uses and multiple users of water
- Possibilities and problems with the use of models as a communication tool in water resource management
- Integration of the biophysical and social sciences using an indicator approach: Addressing water problems at different scales
- Capturing the complexity of water uses and water users within a multi-agent framework
- Upscaling field scale hydrology and water quality modelling to catchment scale
- Linking databases of different sources and scales for groundwater research in the Urema River Basin/Central Mozambique
- Integrated water and food analysis at the global and basin level. An application of WATERSIM
- The adaptive integrated data information system (AIDIS) for global water research
- Policy implications of a pan-tropic assessment of the simultaneous hydrological and biodiversity impacts of deforestation
- Towards better water security in North China
- Towards transition management of European water resources
- Some foci of integrated water resources management in the “South” which are oft-forgotten by the “North”: A perspective from southern Africa
- The GLOWA Volta Project: A framework for water resources decision-making and scientific capacity building in a transnational West African basin
- Integrating a climate change assessment tool into stakeholder-driven water management decision-making processes in California
- Involving stakeholders in integrated river basin planning in England and Wales
- Integrated assessment of water resources: Australian experiences.
