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The United Nations world water development report 2015: water for a sustainable world

Author : Connor, Richard

Publisher : UNESCO Publishing

Page : 139 pages

File Size : 44,84 MB

Release : 2015-03-23

Category : Energy development

ISBN : 9231000713

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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.





Water as a Focus for Regional Development

Author : Asit K. Biswas

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 440 pages

File Size : 19,4 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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Contributed articles; study conducted by Third World Centre for Water Management and Nippon Foundation.





Water and Cities

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Publisher : IWA Publishing

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 31,20 MB

Release : 2015-05-15

Category : Science

ISBN : 1780407599

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This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries, and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water-risk exposure, the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics, and institutional and governance architectures. The analyses focus on four mutually dependent dimensions – finance, innovation, urban-rural co-operation and governance – and proposes a solutions-oriented typology based on urban characteristics. The report underlines that sustainable urban water management will depend on collaboration across different tiers of government working together with local initiatives and stakeholders.



Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources

Author : Omid Bozorg-Haddad

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 11,87 MB

Release : 2021-07-14

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0323906923

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Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources provides a fully comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of all three factors in their relation to water resources. Economic issues consist of Water accounting, Water economy, Water pricing, Water market, Water bank and bourse. Political issues consist of Water power and hydrogemistry, Water diplomacy and hydropolitics, Water rights and water laws, Water governance and policy, Shared water resources management, Water management systems, and social issues consist of Water and culture, civilization and history, Water quality, hygiene, and health, Water and society. This book familiarizes researchers with all aspects of the field, which can lead to optimized and multidimensional water resources management. Some of abovementioned issues are new, so the other aim of this book is to identify them in order to researchers can easily find them and use them in their studies. - Includes diverse case studies from around the world - Presents contributions from global and diverse contributors with interdisciplinary backgrounds, including water engineers, scientists, planners the economic, political and social issues surrounding water - Contains in-depth definitions and concepts of each topic





Water Resources Sector Strategy

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Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 18,17 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780821356975

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This paper focuses on how to improve the development and management of water resources while providing the principles that link resource management to the specific water-using sectors. In 1993 the Board of the World Bank endorsed a Water Resources Management Policy Paper. In that paper, and this Strategy, water resources management is seen to comprise the institutional framework; management instruments; and the development, maintenance and operation of infrastructure. The paper looks at the dynamics of water and development. It builds on the 1993 policy paper, evaluating current scenarios and looking at future options and their implications both for government policy and the World Bank.



Water Management in Africa and the Middle East

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Publisher : IDRC

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 49,99 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Water resources development

ISBN : 088936804X

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Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities



Environmental Modeling for Sustainable Regional Development: System Approaches and Advanced Methods

Author : Olej, Vladim¡r

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 491 pages

File Size : 32,91 MB

Release : 2010-11-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1609601580

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Understanding the advancement of sustainable development is critical to managing human activities to avoid the overexploitation of resources and pollution of the environment beyond tolerable levels. Sustainable development involves not only preservation and care of the environment, but also recognition of the complex relations between economic, social and living systems. Environmental Modeling for Sustainable Regional Development: System Approaches and Advanced Methods presents processing methods and their applications, which are practical for decision making and task management at the regional level as well as for scientific studies in sustainable development assessment. This book serves as a reference guide for post-graduate students in the field of management as well as a critical guide for managers, government officials, and information professionals.