Integrated water resources management on a basin level
Author : Jean Burton
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category :
ISBN : 9789292200039
Global Diagnostic on Groundwater Governance
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251092591
Book Description
This report aims at integrating regional and country experiences and projects with regard to viable groundwater management practices for the future. It compiles and translates best available present scientific and technical knowledge on groundwater resources and their governance, which is often highly specialized, into simpler language and synoptic representations, accessible to a large public of policy and decision makers across development sectors. It serves as a technical basis for the visioning process, and for the definition of the Framework for Action on groundwater governance.This is one of 3 outputs of project GCP/GLO/277/GEF expected to be published under the names of its 5 partner organizations and widely circulated to policy and decision-makers in countries, as well as other stakeholders of groundwater governance and practionners around the world. This outputs provides the technical basis for the other two: A Global Vision for Groundwater Governance 2030 and Global Framework for Action to Achieve the Vision on Groundwater Governance.
Toward Integrated Water Resources Management in Armenia
Author : Winston Yu
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1464803382
Book Description
This study takes stock of the current water resources management in Armenia, including diagnosing the main sub-sectors (agriculture, urban, environment, and energy), reviewing the institutional framework and implementation status of water-sector policies, identifying the main challenges and making recommendations on the next steps.
The United Nations world water development report 2015: water for a sustainable world
Author : Connor, Richard
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Energy development
ISBN : 9231000713
Book Description
The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is hosted and led by UNESCO. WWAP brings together the work of 31 UN-Water Members as well as 37 Partners to publish the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) series. Under the theme Water for Sustainable Development, the WWDR 2015 has been prepared as a contribution from UN-Water to the discussions surrounding the post-2015 framework for global sustainable development. Highlighting water's unique and often complex role in achieving various sustainable development objectives, the WWDR 2015 is addressed to policy- and decision-makers inside and outside the water community, as well as to anyone with an interest in freshwater and its many life-giving benefits. The report sets an aspirational yet achievable vision for the future of water towards 2050 by describing how water supports healthy and prosperous human communities, maintains well functioning ecosystems and ecological services, and provides a cornerstone for short and long-term economic development. It provides an overview of the challenges, issues and trends in terms of water resources, their use and water-related services like water supply and sanitation. The report also offers, in a rigorous yet accessible manner, guidance about how to address these challenges and to seize the opportunities that sound water management provides in order to achieve and maintain economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Facing the challenges: case studies and indicators
Author : Koncagül, Engin
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : 9231000721
Book Description
Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management
Author : Shimelis Gebriye Setegn
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9783319121956
Book Description
The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate. The book also addresses the question of how to define and measure the sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The sustainability of IWRM is an important issue when planning and/or developing policies that consider the impact of climate change, water governance and ecohydrology in the context of a more holistic approach to ensure sustainable management of water resources. Sustainable IWRM is more about processes, and relatively little systematic or rigorous work has been done to articulate what components are the most essential to ensure the ongoing sustainability of IWRM efforts. The chapters cover topics including global prospective of IWRM; allocation of environmental flows in IWRM; echohydrology, water resources and environmental sustainability; climate change and IWRM; IWRM and water governance including social, economic, public health and cultural aspects; climate change resiliency actions related to water resources management sustainability and tools in support of sustainability for IWRM. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, water resources mangers, policy and decision makers, donors, international institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educators, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. It is a useful reference for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecohydrology, climate change impact and adaptations, water governance, environmental flows, geographic information system and modeling tools, water and energy nexus and related topics.
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020
Author : UNESCO
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9210050002
Book Description
The 2020 edition of the WWDR, titled Water and Climate Change illustrates the critical linkages between water and climate change in the context of the broader sustainable development agenda. Supported by examples from across the world, it describes both the challenges and opportunities created by climate change, and provides potential responses – in terms of adaptation, mitigation and improved resilience – that can be undertaken by enhancing water resources management, attenuating water-related risks, and improving access to water supply and sanitation services for all in a sustainable manner. It addresses the interrelations between water, people, environment and economics in a changing climate, demonstrating how climate change can be a positive catalyst for improved water management, governance and financing to achieve a sustainable and prosperous world for all. The report provides a fact-based, water-focused contribution to the knowledge base on climate change. It is complementary to existing scientific assessments and designed to support international political frameworks, with the goals of helping the water community tackle the challenges of climate change, and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.
The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook
Author : Jaroslav Mysiak
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1844077926
Book Description
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 5 - 2014
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231042599
Book Description
The WWDR 2014 on Water and Energy is now an annual and thematic report with a focus on different strategic water issues each year. It is shorter in the order of 100 pages with a standardized structure and data and case studies annexes related to the theme. The WWDR 2014 will be launched during the main World Water Day celebrations in Tokyo, Japan on 21 March 2014. Water and energy are closely interconnected and highly interdependent. Trade-offs need to be managed to limit negative impacts and foster opportunities for synergy. Water and energy have crucial impacts on poverty alleviation both directly, as a number of the Millennium Development Goals depend on major improvements in access to water, sanitation, power and energy sources, and indirectly, as water and energy can be binding constraints on economic growth the ultimate hope for widespread poverty reduction. This fifth edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR 2014) seeks to inform decision-makers
Adaptive and Integrated Water Management
Author : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2007-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540759417
Book Description
Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. This book presents the very latest studies, methods and innovations for managing our water resources from the first International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The book addresses a wide interdisciplinary audience of scientists and professionals from academia, industry, and those involved in policy making.
