This state-of-the-art reference offers water resource and environmental professionals international coverage of water quality management and environmental issues, including the environmental impact of water development. Featuring contributions by experts from nine countries, this book presents the latest concepts and data on waterlogging and salinity, sedimentation, land use, eutrophication, fisheries, and aquatic weeds. Readers will also get information on social impacts, economic instruments, initiating environmentally responsible projects, water quality modeling and monitoring, water reuse, and more.

Water Resources: Environmental Planning, Management and Development

Business & Money

Biswas, Asit K.

Economics

McGraw-Hill Professional

Extractive Metallurgy of Copper : 2nd Edition

Pergamon Press

Water is the most critical resource for the long-term sustainable development of the Middle East. Without an amicable agreement between the countries concerned to develop and use the scarce water resources on an equitable basis, no lasting peace is possible in the region. The water issue has concurrent political, technical, economic, and social dimensions. In order to examine these complex interrelationships and to propose some possible solutions, a Middle East Water Commission was established with leading international water experts as its members. This book is the final report of this Commission and is an outstanding example of how complex inter-country water issues can be analyzed. The book would be of direct interest to anyone interested in the management of international waters.

Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive Approach to Middle Eastern Water (Water Resources Management Series)

Arts & Photography

Waterbury, John

Murakami, Masahiro

Kolars, John

Wolf, Aaron

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The Singapore Water Story: Sustainable Development in an Urban City-State

Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for sustainable development. This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique is that the quest for self-sufficiency in terms of water availability in a fast-changing urban context has been crucial to the way development policies and agendas have been planned throughout the years. The authors analyse plans, policies, institutions, laws and regulations, water demand and water supply strategies, water quality and water conservation considerations, partnerships and importance of the media. They assess overall how all these issues have evolved in response to the dynamic needs of the city-state. The study of Singapore shows how a dynamic society can address development without losing its focus on the environment. In the city-state, environmental concerns in general, and water concerns in particular, have played a major role in its transformation from a third word to a first world country. How and why this transformation took place is the main focus of this authoritative book.

The Singapore Water Story: Sustainable Development in an Urban City-state

Tortajada, Cecilia

Joshi, Yugal Kishore

Reference

Routledge

A collection of reports focusing on the inter-relationships among population, resources, environment and development. The contributors include Robert Mugabe, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Rajiv Gandi, Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia and Barbara Brundtland, president of the World Bank.

Earth and Us: Population Resources Environment Development

Tolba, Mostafa Kamal

Butterworth Architecture

Environmental Impact Assessment for Developing Countries

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is now a mandatory process for project approval in all countries. This book brings together experiences in EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) for different types of project from different parts of the world, comprehensively discussing policies adopted, methodologies used, their relative successes and failures, institutional alternatives, legal frameworks, education and training, along with numerous case studies.

Butterworth-Heinemann

Compiles the experiences of environmental impact assessment studies for different kinds of projects in different parts of the world, discussing the policies adopted, the methodologies used, the relative successes and failures, the legal frameworks, education, and other aspects. The 18 papers and the summary and recommendations are from an international conference in New Delhi (no date noted). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Sustainability in Coffee Production

Coffee, as a commodity and through its global value chains, is the focus of much interest to achieve fair trade and equitable outcomes for producers, processors and consumers. It has iconic cultural and economic significance for Colombia, which is one of the world's major coffee producers for the global market. This book examines sustainable coffee production in Colombia, specifically the initiatives of Nestlé to create shared value. It describes the transformation of the coffee landscape by the development of economically, socially and environmentally viable and dedicated supply chains. Suppliers have been encouraged to shift production and quality paradigms, in order to develop long-term and sustainable strategies for higher value and premium quality products. This has been partially achieved by establishing a robust partnership with the Coffee Growers Federation and other public, private and social actors, thereby taking control of the institutional architecture and knowledge base that exists in the country. The book provides an important lesson of corporate social responsibility and the creation of shared value for the benefit of farmers, corporations and consumers.

Biswas-Tortajada, Andrea

Water Pricing and Public-Private Partnership

Taylor&Francis

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