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  title info:
    title: Perspectives on Environmental Management and Technology in Asian River Basins
  name:
    name part: Higgitt, David.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: V, 122 p. 11 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Asian river basins are undergoing rapid transformation. This volume considers the implications of the environmental change-development nexus for water management, river health and hazard awareness. As Biswas and Tortajada (2011) have recently commented, water management in Asia will likely change more in the next twenty years than in the last 2000 years. Critical environmental trends include decreasing flows of water and sediment due to dam construction and increased water extraction, land use change (especially forest removal), encroachment and degradation of floodplain and wetland environments, increased water demand and concerns about water security, urban expansion and associated pollution of rivers and contamination of groundwater reserves. These challenges are being reframed by new approaches to water management which represent a transition from engineering-dominated approaches towards integrated water management, from technology transfer to adaptive technologies. The volume comprises an introduction and five chapters. Brierley and Callum reframe approaches to river repair within emerging theories of in ecology and earth science which regard nature as a complex adaptive system replete with inherent uncertainties. These ideas are mirrored in the four case study chapters which deal with water governance in the Mekong Basin (Hirsch); hybrid adoption of water resource technologies in India (Barbanente et al.); determination of sediment dynamics in Java Rijsdijk); and ecological conservation imperatives in the headwaters of the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong rivers in western China (Li et al.).
  table of contents: 1. Environmental Management and Technology in Asian River Basins -- 2. Environmental Science and Management in a Changing World -- 3. River Hardware and Software: Perspectives on National Interest and Water Governance in the Mekong River Basin -- 4. Evolutionary Technologies in Knowledge-Based Management of Water Resources: Perspectives from South Asian Case Studies -- 5. Surface Runoff and Sediment Yields from Tropical Volcanic Upland Watersheds as Influenced by Climatic, Geological and Land-use Factors -- 6. Ecological Protection and Restoration in Sanjiangyuan Natural Reserve, Qinghai Province, China -- Index.
  note: edited by David Higgitt.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Water pollution
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  classification: TD419-428
  classification: 363.7394
  classification: 363.73946
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
  identifier: 9789400723306
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2330-6
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