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Integrated Water Resources Management
2016Integrated water resources management (IWRM) has become a globally recognized approach to water governance. However, the definition of IWRM remains abstract, and implementation challenges remain. This chapter analyzes IWRM from the perspective of adaptive governance, which conceptualizes IWRM as an institutional arrangement that seeks to solve ...
Mark Lubell, Carolina Balazs
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Managing China's Water Resources
Environmental Science & Technology, 2000As its economy strengthens, the nation must confront increasingly challenging water resource management issues.
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Future management of water resources
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water and Maritime Engineering, 2002The current situation in relation to water resources, water needs, and key water problems is evaluated. The development over the past few decades of a holistic approach to the management of water resources is reviewed. This new viewpoint involves a combination of appropriate economics, appropriate ecological management, and adoption of a participatory
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2019
This chapter examines California's water management projects, which represent an important exception to its leadership in the area of environmental protection. California's approach to water management is distinctive from its other environmental policies in three important respects.
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This chapter examines California's water management projects, which represent an important exception to its leadership in the area of environmental protection. California's approach to water management is distinctive from its other environmental policies in three important respects.
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2021
Description based upon print version of record. ; Water resource management consists of planning, developing, distributing and managing the available water resources. With increasing urbanization, optimized water management becomes more demanding. This book presents innovative solutions for present as well as future challenges we are facing in water ...
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Description based upon print version of record. ; Water resource management consists of planning, developing, distributing and managing the available water resources. With increasing urbanization, optimized water management becomes more demanding. This book presents innovative solutions for present as well as future challenges we are facing in water ...
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2010
Together with energy, water is one of the major fuels of economic development. A development plan, especially in a water-short area, such as an arid zone belt, or a flat area underlain by hard rocks without major surface streams, cannot be drawn unless a clear idea of water availability and costs has been reached.
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Together with energy, water is one of the major fuels of economic development. A development plan, especially in a water-short area, such as an arid zone belt, or a flat area underlain by hard rocks without major surface streams, cannot be drawn unless a clear idea of water availability and costs has been reached.
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Managing and allocating water resources: Adopting the integrated water resource management approach
2003Publisher Summary Global, regional and local water resources are subject to increasing demands. Implicit in the management of all water is the task of allocation. Allocation between uses that have become competing because of the rising overall demand will be contentious.
Stephen J. Toope +2 more
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Coastal Water Resources Management
2021Globally, non-point source pollution from the land is resulting in the eutrophication of coastal waters. Meanwhile, sea-level rise is leading to seawater intrusion of coastal aquifers. Rising demand for water is resulting in the construction of desalination plants, with significant environmental impacts offshore. Furthermore, waterways are transporting
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Management of Water Resources in the Amazon Region
2016Brazil has an energy matrix which is based on 45% of renewable sources, and more than 70 % of this electricity is drawn from hydroelectric plants. The present work tries to show how big hydroelectric projects, even if it is globally acknowledged as clean, can hide several threats for both humans and the environment.
Caravaggio, Nicola, Iorio, Martina
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Water resources development and management
International Journal of Water Resources Development, 1988This paper examines the maximum available water resources in Japan, nationally and by region, and describes the present balance of demand and supply. The major existing mechanisms of water development and control ‐ dam construction and pricing structures ‐ are reviewed.
Yutaro Senga, Hiroyasu Shimura
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