Social Science Training for Water Resources Engineers and Planners
Author : Jerome Delli Priscoli
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social sciences
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Author : Jerome Delli Priscoli
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social sciences
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Author : Engineering Foundation (U.S.). Conference
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
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Author : L. Douglas James
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0813186293
Modern man is beginning, painfully, to learn that he can continue to enjoy basic resources like water only through careful planning and control. This book indicates what social scientists have contributed in the past and seeks to encourage their future participation in this critical area. The study first describes the background of water use planning and defines the specific problems of control. Then five social scientists, representing the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, political science, and sociology, review the contributions their disciplines have made and discuss the problems they can do most toward solving. Concluding chapters offer additional commentary and provide an overall evaluation of the present situation in water resource management and suggestions for more meaningful participation by social scientists.
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Environmental management
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Author : Sharad K. Jain
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080543693
This book is divided into four parts. The first part, Preliminaries, begins by introducing the basic theme of the book. It provides an overview of the current status of water resources utilization, the likely scenario of future demands, and advantages and disadvantages of systems techniques. An understanding of how the hydrological data are measured and processed is important before undertaking any analysis. The discussion is extended to emerging techniques, such as Remote Sensing, GIS, Artificial Neural Networks, and Expert Systems. The statistical tools for data analysis including commonly used probability distributions, parameter estimation, regression and correlation, frequency analysis, and time-series analysis are discussed in a separate chapter. Part 2 Decision Making, is a bouquet of techniques organized in 4 chapters. After discussing optimization and simulation, the techniques of economic analysis are covered. Recently, environmental and social aspects, and rehabilitation and resettlement of project-affected people have come to occupy a central stage in water resources management and any good book is incomplete unless these topics are adequately covered. The concept of rational decision making along with risk, reliability, and uncertainty aspects form subject matter of a chapter. With these analytical tools, the practitioner is well equipped to take a rational decision for water resources utilization. Part 3 deals with Water Resources Planning and Development. This part discusses the concepts of planning, the planning process, integrated planning, public involvement, and reservoir sizing. The last part focuses on Systems Operation and Management. After a resource is developed, it is essential to manage it in the best possible way. Many dams around the world are losing some storage capacity every year due to sedimentation and therefore, the assessment and management of reservoir sedimentation is described in details. No analysis of water resources systems is complete without consideration of water quality. A river basin is the natural unit in which water occurs. The final chapter discusses various issues related to holistic management of a river basin.
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Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Hydrology
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Author : U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Water resources development
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
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Includes Association of State and Territorial Health Officers, American Venereal Disease Association, and American Social Health Association joint report "Today's VD Problem," Mar., 1963 (p. 57-124)
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Finance, Public
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Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231042564
Water is an essential resource for mankind and our ecosystems. Free Flow is a fully illustrated book with over 100 authors work on water management and cooperation at international, regional, national, municipal and local levels. Their commentaries draw upon experiences around the world, reflecting how people are changing their interaction with water to improve sustainable development. The publication reflects progresses and challenges in these fields, highlighting good practices in a wide variety of societies and disciplines. The book strives to project experiences into future actions and encourages further institutional commitments to better understanding of and more effective management of water cooperation in order to achieve sustainable development.