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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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White River National Forest (N.F.), Arapahoe Basin 2006 Improvement Plan
Author: The Water Crisis in Yemen
Author: Christopher WardPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857724401
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people of the country and their government can influence outcomes and make the transition to a sustainable water economy. The Water Crisis in Yemen offers a comprehensive, practical, and effective approach to achieving sustainable and equitable management of water for growth in a country whose water problems are amongst the most serious in the world.
Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed
Author: Joakim ÖjendalPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400704763
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Water - and its governance - is becoming a global concern partly because it is turning into a goods in short supply, with devastating effects on literally billions of people, but also because it is the "carrier" of global warming; whether through irregular weather patterns or through flooding, water is how global warming will be 'felt'. The lion's share of the globally available fresh water resources is to be found in transboundary systems. In spite of its significance, the generated knowledge on how to deal with transboundary waters is weak and leaves policy makers with seemingly unavoidable, trade-off dilemmas and prioritizations, often with detrimental effects. In order to disentangle this predicament this volume works with one case: the Lower Mekong Basin and covers state-of-the-art academic and practitioners' knowledge and hence appeals to a wide audience. The topic this volume addresses is situated in the nexus of an IR- (International Relations) approach focussing on transboundary politics and its inclination to remain within the sphere of state sovereignty and national interest on the one hand, and Development studies, with its imperatives on participation, planning, and intervention, on the other. The dilemma, we argue, of better understanding transboundary water management lies in how to understand how these two rationalities can be simultaneously nurtured. Audience: This book will be relevant to scholars, as it provides cutting-edge research, and students, since it covers the primary debates in the field, interested in resource management, regional politics, and development issues in the area. It also addresses the global debate on transboundary water management and presents an in-depth case of one of the globally most sophisticated attempts at pursuing sustainable river basin management. Finally, practitioners and policymakers would benefit greatly because all contributions have explicit policy relevance, launching suggestion on improvements in water management.
Peace in Uganda
Author: S. A. H. AbidiPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9970822020
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Always Be Tolerant Organization (ABETO) was established and registered as a Non-Governmental Organisation in June 1996. The inspiration was in pursuit of the Commonwealth conference resolution to embrace tolerance. In the year 2002, ABETO conceived the idea of bringing out a series of publications stressing the value of Tolerance as a tool for resolving conflicts and to educacte Ugandans as well as the international community about the pressing problems and conflicts within the society. This publication therefore is third in a series of ABETO publications, after Living Beyond Conflict for Peace and Tolerance, published in 2002 and Diplomatic Approach to Peace: Ambassadors and Commissions Speak out published in 2005. Focussing again on the situation on Northern Uganda some of the topic covered in Peace in Uganda The Role of Civil Society are: The Importance of People's Participation in Conflict Resolution in Eastern, Central and Western Uganda; Promoting Sustainable Peace in Northern Uganda Through Agricultural Development; The Role of Women in Advancement of Society; The Importance of Cultural Institutions in Nation Building.
Scientific Investigations Report
Author: Ralph J. HaefnerPublisher:
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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Evolution of Dam Policies
Author: Waltina ScheumannPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642234038
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) “Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making” set a landmark in the ongoing controversy over large dams. Now that more than ten years have passed, one has to realize that the WCD norms matter. However, their real chance of becoming implemented relies on whether their core values, strategic priorities and guidelines are accepted by national decision-makers and are translated into official policies and practices. The book’s major concern is whether the big hydropower states have improved their standards for environment and resettlement, and whether international standards are applied or exist only on paper. The introductory and synthesis chapters present the methodological approach and discuss the findings. Other chapters analyze changes in dam policies in the big hydropower states Brazil, China, India and Turkey; the role of non-governmental organizations in advocating against the Turkish Ilisu Dam project on the Tigris River; the strategies of International Rivers and World Wildlife Fund for Nature in the global hydropower game; the policies of the German government and its positioning in the dam debate, and the engagement of Chinese actors in building the Bui Dam (Ghana) and the Kamchay Dam (Cambodia).
Transboundary Waters, Infrastructure Development and Public Private Partnership
Author: Richard Kyle PaisleyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004359761
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have increasingly emerged as a valuable mechanism for drawing in investment and expertise from the private sector to meet public infrastructure needs. PPPs involving transboundary international waters require particular attention given their huge potential for social and environmental impact. Transboundary Waters, Infrastructure Development and Public Private Partnership examines what PPPs are and how they function in the context of transboundary waters. It explains how environmental and social "safeguards” operate in relation to PPPs and transboundary waters in light of the Nam Theun 2 and the Xayaburi Hydroelectric Power projects in Laos PDR. Finally, it draws important lessons from their contractual arrangements, costs, financing and risk mitigation that are relevant to PPPs in other transboundary waters matters.
Africa Water Atlas
Author: United Nations Environment ProgrammePublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9789280731101
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This Africa Water Atlas is a visual account of Africa's endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104 satellite images as well as some 500 graphics, hundreds of compelling photos plus a brief profile of the water situation in every country. These visual elements vividly illustrate a succinct narrative describing and analysing Africa's water issues and exemplifying them through the judiciious use of case studies. The Atlas tells the paradoxical story of a continent with adequate renewable water resources, but unequal access because the water is either abundant or scarce depending on the season or the place. it explores the opportunities to develop Africa's untapped water resources and human capacities to deliver safe drinking water and sanitation services to achieve the water-related Millennium Development Goals, As well as hydropower and irrigation services that help support livelihoods and boost economic development.
Transforming Water Management in South Africa
Author: Barbara SchreinerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048193672
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of these policy and legislative changes mean that valuable lessons have already been learned and useful experiences gained in the challenge of effective water resources management and water services provision in a middle income country.
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