Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Planning
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Submission to Natural Resources and Environment Committee -
Author: Water Resources Planning and Management
Author: R. Quentin GraftonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496492
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever published on water resource issues. It brings together multiple disciplines to understand and help resolve problems of water quality and scarcity from a global perspective. Its case studies and 'foundation' chapters will be greatly valued by students, researchers and professionals involved in water resources, hydrology, governance and public policy, law, economics, geography and environmental studies.
Australian Government Publications
Author: National Library of AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Technical Memorandum
Author: Decision Making in Water Resources Policy and Management
Author: Barry HartPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128105240
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Decision-Making in Water Resource Policy and Management: An Australian Perspective presents the latest information in developing new decision-making processes. Topics covered include key aspects of water resources planning, recent water resource policy changes in irrigation, urban, and environmental considerations, the evolution of a water market, a number of case studies that provide real examples of improved decision-making, transfer of the Australian experience overseas, and challenges for the future. Many countries are experiencing major water scarcity problems which will likely intensify with the continued impacts of climate change. In response to this challenge, there is increased worldwide focus on the development of more sustainable and integrated water resource policies. The Australian experience over the past three decades has led to major improvements in the decision-making processes in water resources policy and management, particularly in response to drought and climate change, providing a great model on which other nations can use and adapt. This information is essential to early to mid-career practitioners engaged in policy, planning and operational roles in all fields of water resource policy and management, and catchment management. - Summarizes key results from three decades of changes in Australian water resource policy - Illustrates how Australian knowledge is being used in other countries and how this might be expanded - Provides international practitioners with real examples of where and how the Australian knowledge is assisting in other situations
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
Author: Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
List of members in each volume (except v. 6, new ser., v. 27).
Australian Government Publications
Author: The Water-Sustainable City
Author: David Lewis FeldmanPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1783478578
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their social fabric and environment. In addition, increasing urbanization due to population growth, economic change, and sprawl places huge burdens upon the institutions, as well as the infrastructure, that deliver, protect, and treat urban water. This book assesses the challenges facing the world’s cities in providing reliable, safe, and plentiful supplies through infrastructural, economic, legal, and political strategies.
Flooded Forest and Desert Creek
Author: Matthew ColloffPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643109218
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the structural and functional elements of important floodplain and wetland ecosystems. Along ephemeral creeks in the arid Centre it exists as narrow corridors, providing vital refugia for biodiversity. The tree has played a central role in the tension between economy, society and environment and has been the subject of enquiries over its conservation, use and management. Despite this, we know remarkably little about the ecology and life history of the river red gum: its longevity; how deep its roots go; what proportion of its seedlings survive to adulthood; and the diversity of organisms associated with it. More recently we have begun to move from a culture of exploitation of river red gum forests and woodlands to one of conservation and sustainable use. In Flooded Forest and Desert Creek, the author traces this shift through the rise of a collective environmental consciousness, in part articulated through the depiction of river red gums and inland floodplains in art, literature and the media.
Submission to Natural Resources and Environment Committee Inquiry Into Water Resources Management in Victoria
Author: Rural Water Commission of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780724139378
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description