Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wiegandt, Ellen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research ; 31
• Subjects: Environment.; Hydrology.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Climate change.; Environment, general.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Climate Change.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. Paradoxically, water resources have been identified both as too plentiful, producing major disasters, and increasingly vulnerable to shortages. Addressing both of these aspects requires attention to physical hydrolo...