Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
ASA News
Author: African Studies AssociationPublisher: African Studies Association
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Courier
Author: Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: The Institutional Economics of Water
Author: R. Maria SalethPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821356562
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This publication examines issues of water sector reform and performance from the perspectives of institutional economics and political economic studies. The authors develop an alternative quantitative assessment methodology based on the principle of 'institutional ecology', as well as data collected from 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world using a cross-country review of recent water sector reforms within an institutional transaction cost framework.
Understanding Water in a Dry Environment
Author: Ian SimmersPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113529108X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In order to provide water security in the twenty-first century, there is universal agreement that a continuation of current policies and extrapolation of trends is not an option. Also clear is that from both water supply and development perspectives, the world's arid and semi-arid regions are those currently and potentially experiencing the highest
Water Resources Management
Author: Vijay P SinghPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811057117
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book contains two parts. The first part deals with some aspects of irrigation, encompassing farm irrigation systems, landscape gardening, energy assessment for drip irrigation, and micro-sprinklers. The second part is on water resources planning and management. It discusses water crisis, challenges in river health management, water supply systems, salt water intrusion, lake management, water supply demand assessment, integrated water resources management, among other topics. The book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of water resources, hydrology, environmental resources, agricultural engineering, watershed management, earth sciences, as well as those engaged in natural resources planning and management. Graduate students and those wishing to conduct further research in water and environment and their development and management may find the book to be of value.
Introduction to the Numerical Modeling of Groundwater and Geothermal Systems
Author: Jochen BundschuhPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0415404231
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1373
Book Description
This book provides an introduction to the scientific fundamentals of groundwater and geothermal systems. In a simple and didactic manner the different water and energy problems existing in deformable porous rocks are explained as well as the corresponding theories and the mathematical and numerical tools that lead to modeling and solving them. This approach provides the reader with a thorough understanding of the basic physical laws of thermoporoelastic rocks, the partial differential equations representing these laws and the principal numerical methods, which allow finding approximate solutions of the corresponding mathematical models. The book also presents the form in which specific useful models can be generated and solved. The text is introductory in the sense that it explains basic themes of the systems mentioned in three areas: engineering, physics and mathematics. All the laws and equations introduced in this book are formulated carefully based on fundamental physical principles. This way, the reader will understand the key importance of mathematics applied to all the subjects. Simple models are emphasized and solved with numerous examples. For more sophisticated and advanced models the numerical techniques are described and developed carefully. This book will serve as a synoptic compendium of the fundamentals of fluid, solute and heat transport, applicable to all types of subsurface systems, ranging from shallow aquifers down to deep geothermal reservoirs. The book will prove to be a useful textbook to senior undergraduate and graduate students, postgraduates, professional geologists and geophysicists, engineers, mathematicians and others working in the vital areas of groundwater and geothermal resources.
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 088936804X
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Resilience and Risk
Author: Igor LinkovPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9402411232
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
This volume addresses the challenges associated with methodology and application of risk and resilience science and practice to address emerging threats in environmental, cyber, infrastructure and other domains. The book utilizes the collective expertise of scholars and experts in industry, government and academia in the new and emerging field of resilience in order to provide a more comprehensive and universal understanding of how resilience methodology can be applied in various disciplines and applications. This book advocates for a systems-driven view of resilience in applications ranging from cyber security to ecology to social action, and addresses resilience-based management in infrastructure, cyber, social domains and methodology and tools. Risk and Resilience has been written to open up a transparent dialog on resilience management for scientists and practitioners in all relevant academic disciplines and can be used as supplement in teaching risk assessment and management courses.