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Conocimientos Disciplinarios y datos necesarios para la Eficiencia del agua en Edificios Verdes

open access: yesArquitectura +, 2016
La escasez de agua se ha convertido en uno de los problemas más graves en muchos países del mundo. Es crucial implementar iniciativas para crear conciencia en el manejo y uso del agua potable, así como para cumplir con el uso eficiente del agua en los ...
Enrique Ulises Blandón
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La ‘fila’ de agua valenciana y otras medidas de aforo. La verdadera naturaleza de un sistema de medición de caudales de origen andalusí

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2021
Los caudales de agua de riego se han medido tradicionalmente en Valencia mediante una medida de aforo llamada fila, de la que hasta ahora se desconocía su verdadera naturaleza y valor, a pesar de ser un tema ampliamente discutido desde hace siglos.
Ferran Esquilache Martí
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¿Cuánta agua estoy usando para regar mi jardín?

open access: yesEDIS, 2023
Esta publicación provee contexto y motivación para reducir la cantidad de agua usada para regar el jardín. Esto se hace proporcionando una estimación de los galones de agua que son utilizados por ciclo de riego en Florida, y luego comparando ese monto ...
Nicholas Taylor   +3 more
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Rural household's willingness to pay for irrigation water use: An application of contingent valuation method, in the case of North Shewa zone, Ethiopia

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 4, Page 943-959, November 2023., 2023
Abstract This study aimed to evaluate household's willingness to pay (WTOP) for irrigation water use (IWU) per timad (0.25 ha) of the irrigable land per year and to analyze determinants of WTOP for IWU at individual households based on the contingent valuation method (CVM).
Biruk Kemaw Shenkute   +3 more
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Adoption of rainwater harvesting as a sustainable approach to improving the climate resilience of small landholders in Kenya

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 4, Page 913-928, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The African Water Vision 2025 emphasized the disadvantages of the rural population in the context of water supply infrastructure, water management, and access. The vision extolled the virtues of providing improved decentralized governance and localized actions to deliver on this agenda.
Kristin Mutschinski, Neil A. Coles
wiley   +1 more source

Waves, Floods, Currents: The Politics and Poetics of Water in Social Movement Analysis

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 1822-1840, November 2023., 2023
Abstract The task of conceptualising social movements draws on a wealth of watery images, from protest waves and political currents, to imagining mobilisations as tides, ripples, cascades or high‐pressure hydraulics. Called upon to analyse complex processes, these waters have a life of their own, carrying analytical implications while extending a ...
Jamie Matthews
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Institutional pathways for transforming groundwater planning and management: Reflections from Pakistan and Sri Lanka

open access: yesWorld Water Policy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Page 481-501, August 2023., 2023
Abstract The growing issues with groundwater quality and quantity worldwide are particularly impacting regions of South Asia, where groundwater use plays a crucial role in human well‐being. As the severity of the situation becomes clearer, there are increasing calls for transformation in water management.
Catherine Allan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arsénico y flúor en agua subterránea de Chihuahua: su origen, enriquecimiento, y tratamientos posibles

open access: yesTecnociencia Chihuahua, 2021
La presencia de arsénico (As) y flúor (F) en agua subterránea es un problema global que afecta a una gran cantidad de personas en cinco continentes. Estudios al respecto reportan el contenido de As y F en agua, rocas y sedimentos, así como los factores ...
Mélida Gutiérrez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

open access: yesReview of Policy Research, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 207-229, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation available to municipalities, what drives them to opt for a market‐based instrument (MBI)? MBIs can be effective and efficient policy instruments to enhance water quantity conservation, but there is little known about why municipalities utilize them.
Daniel Benjamin Bailey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defensa comunitaria y culturas del terror: Crimen organizado y violencia de Estado en comunidades originarias de Guerrero, México

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
wiley   +1 more source

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