Society - Water - Technology A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hüttl, Reinhard F. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bens, Oliver (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bismuth, Christine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hoechstetter, Sebastian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Water Resources Development and Management,
• Θέματα: Environment.; Water-supply.; International environmental law.; Water pollution.; Environmental economics.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Water Industry/Water Technologies.; Environmental Economics.; International Environmental Law.

This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group  "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and portrays an application t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Context and Objective
• Introduction: A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects and the Need for Interdisciplinary Approaches
• Water Ethics – Orientation for Water Conflicts as Part of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Deliberation
• Part II: Major Water Engineering Projects – Challenges, Problems, Opportunities.- Major Water Engineering Projects: Definitions, Framework Conditions, Systemic Effects
• A Global View on Future Major Water Engineering Projects
• Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts and Economic Valuation
• Water Governance: A Systemic Approach
• Research in two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley
• Part III: The Fergana Valley – Uzbekistan’s Hydro-Agricultural System between Inertia and Change
• Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies
• From Upscaling to Rescaling – Transforming the Fergana from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan
• Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today: Ecological Implications –Economic Necessities
• Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of the Water Users Associations
• Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan between Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles
• Part IV: The Lower Jordan Valley – The Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project and its Complex History
• Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley – The Situation Today and the Path that has led there
• Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action
• Jordan’s Shadow State and Water Management: Prospects for Water Security will depend on Politics and Regional Cooperation
• Technologies, Incentives and Cost Recovery: Is there an Israeli Role Model?
• Part V: Outlook and Options for Action
• Lessons Learnt, Open Research Questions and Recommendations.