Waters of Brazil Strategic Analysis /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: de Mattos Bicudo, Carlos Eduardo (Editor), Galizia Tundisi, José (Editor), Cortesão Barnsley Scheuenstuhl, Marcos (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Environment.; Hydrology.; Water quality.; Water pollution.; Agriculture.; Ecology.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Water Quality/Water Pollution.; Hydrology/Water Resources.

This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue. The water cycle was addressed based on an integrated point of view, aiming at joining technological and ecological solutions and integrating quantitative and qualitative aspects of this important environmental ass...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Management of water resources and irrigated agriculture in Brazil
• 2. Water and health: global and national aspects
• 3. Water and economy
• 4. Conservation and reuse as management instruments to attenuate the industrial water use charging costs
• 5. Water in the Brazilian semiarid region
• 6. Amazonia: water resources and sustainability
• 7. Urbanization and water resources
• 8. Education for water resources sustainability
• 9. Subterranean water: strategic reserve or emergential
• 10. Water availability, pollution and eutrophication
• 11. Science, technology, innovation and water resources: future opportunities
• 12. Climate changes and water resources
• 13. Synthesis.