Drought & water supply books

1756 books were found.

Water Supply and Demand Management in the Galápagos: A Case Study of Santa Cruz Island

Water Supply and Demand Management in the Galápagos:...

Author: Maria Reyes Perez (UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780815372479
Format: Paperback
$131.00

Water resources in tourist islands have been severely threatened, especially in the Galápagos Islands, where the...  Read More >>

Industrial Water Resource Management: Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Water Stewardship

Industrial Water Resource Management: Challenges and...

Author: Pradip K. Sengupta
ISBN: 9781119272502
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Provides the tools that allow companies to understand the fundamental concepts of water resource management and...  Read More >>

Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor

Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to...

Author: Harvey Weiss (Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Environmental Studies, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780199329199
Format: Hardback
$156.95

Megadrought and Collapse revises the global archaeological and historical record with nine case studies that describe...  Read More >>

A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends: Policy and Practice

A Critical Approach to International Water Management...

Author: Christian Bréthaut ,  Rémi Schweizer
ISBN: 9781137600851
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of particular trends that are widely recognised to influence water...  Read More >>

Food, Energy and Water Sustainability: Emergent Governance Strategies

Food, Energy and Water Sustainability: Emergent Governance...

Author: Laura M. Pereira (University of Cape Town, South Africa) ,  Caitlin A. McElroy (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781138904095
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume presents the growing diversity of collaborations formed between various governance actors and analyses...  Read More >>

Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region

Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region...

Author: Kate Lazarus ,  Bernadette P. Resurreccion
ISBN: 9781138579064
Format: Paperback
$101.00

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Towards Tradable Water Rights: Water Law and Policy Reform in China

Towards Tradable Water Rights: Water Law and Policy...

Author: Min Jiang
ISBN: 9783319670850
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book provides a first comprehensive legal examination of water rights arrangements and water rights trading...  Read More >>

Water Resources Management IX

Water Resources Management IX

Author: C. A. Brebbia ,  Z. Boukalova
ISBN: 9781784662059
Format: Hardback
$338.96

This book presents the work of scientists, practitioners and other experts regarding recent technological and scientific...  Read More >>

Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management, and Policy, Second Edition

Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management,...

Author: Donald Wilhite ,  Roger S. Pulwarty
ISBN: 9781138035645
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This new edition emphasizes the shift from managing disasters to managing risk, reflecting the global emphasis that...  Read More >>

Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors in South Asia: The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin

Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors...

Author: Paula Hanasz (Australian National University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138097544
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This book identifies factors that contribute to water conflicts and that detract from water cooperation in this...  Read More >>

Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta sub-Basin: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Volta...

Author: Eric Antwi Ofosu
ISBN: 9781138474451
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This study on sustainable irrigation development identified growing markets for irrigated products as an important...  Read More >>

US Drinking Water Regulation: History & Politics, 1914-2015

US Drinking Water Regulation: History & Politics, 1914-2015...

Author: Michael Zarkin
ISBN: 9781536125672
Format: Paperback
$527.82

What constitutes safe drinking water? For more than a century, the US government has attempted to answer this question...  Read More >>

Beyond The Dikes - How The Dutch Work With Water

Beyond The Dikes - How The Dutch Work With Water

Author: M. Steenhuis ,  Paul Meurs
ISBN: 9789462083844
Format: Hardback
$143.61

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Understanding Hydrological Variability for Improved Water Management in the Semi-Arid Karkheh Basin, Iran: UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

Understanding Hydrological Variability for Improved...

Author: Ilyas Masih
ISBN: 9781138474536
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of (surface water) hydrology of the Karkheh basin, Iran, which is...  Read More >>

River Basin Management IX

River Basin Management IX

Author: C. A. Brebbia ,  S. Boukalova
ISBN: 9781784662073
Format: Hardback
$183.71

Forming the 9th volume from this successful international conference series, this book marks a growing global interest...  Read More >>

Assessing Water Rights in China

Assessing Water Rights in China

Author: Yahua Wang
ISBN: 9789811050824
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges

Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale...

Author: Diana Suhardiman ,  Alan Nicol
ISBN: 9781138040540
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines concepts and practices of collective action that have emerged in recent decades globally.  Read More >>

The International Law of Transboundary Groundwater Resources

The International Law of Transboundary Groundwater Resources...

Author: Gabriel Eckstein
ISBN: 9781138842984
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a comprehensive review of the current state of international law as it applies to transboundary...  Read More >>

Adaptive Water Management: Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development

Adaptive Water Management: Concepts, Principles and...

Author: Farideh Delavari Edalat ,  M. Reza Abdi
ISBN: 9783319641423
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban...  Read More >>

Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges

Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale...

Author: Diana Suhardiman ,  Alan Nicol
ISBN: 9781138040595
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book examines concepts and practices of collective action that have emerged in recent decades globally.  Read More >>

Sustainable Groundwater Resources in Africa: Water supply and sanitation environment

Sustainable Groundwater Resources in Africa: Water supply...

Author: Yongxin Xu (University of Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa) ,  Eberhard Braune
ISBN: 9781138111851
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Disseminates research investigations for achieving sustainable groundwater supplies in challenging local community...  Read More >>

Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow River Basins: Realities and Challenges

Groundwater Governance in the Indo-Gangetic and Yellow...

Author: Aditi Mukherji (International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka) ,  Karen G. Villholth (Water Cycle Innovation (Pty) Ltd, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781138113923
Format: Paperback
$152.00

Designed to provide a consolidated and cross-disciplinary source of information and contemporary thinking on agricultural...  Read More >>

Stemming the Tide: Human Rights and Water Policy in a Neoliberal World

Stemming the Tide: Human Rights and Water Policy in...

Author: Madeline Baer (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University)
ISBN: 9780190693152
Format: Hardback
$244.00

When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable...  Read More >>

Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources

Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources

Author: Ellen Wohl
ISBN: 9783319651231
Format: Paperback
$158.37

In this context, water resources refers to ecosystem services including water supply, water quality, flood control,...  Read More >>

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