Water and Oceans
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Adaptation to Climate Change through Water Resources Management
Capacity, Equity and Sustainability
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as seasonal changes in river basins due to glacial melt, increased occurrence of droughts and floods, and sea level rise in densely-populated coastal areas. Such phenomena impact both urban and rural communities in...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Catchment and River Basin Management
Integrating Science and Governance
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water – governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. Catchment and river basin management crucially depend on these drivers. The...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from...
Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management
A Manual for Economic Appraisal
A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment...
To Be Published November 27th 2013 by Routledge
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Governing Marine Protected Areas
Resilience through Diversity
Series: Earthscan Oceans
In this challenging volume, the author addresses some key challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs). These challenges are explored through an analysis of twenty MPA case studies from around the world. A novel governance analysis framework is...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management
This comprehensive Handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these...
To Be Published February 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Investing in Water for a Green Economy
Services, Infrastructure, Policies and Management
In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and...
Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Marine Biodiversity, Climatic Variability and Global Change
Series: Earthscan Oceans
Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now. What is less well documented is the effect of such activities, including climate change, on marine biodiversity. This pioneering book is the first to...
To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge
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Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management
An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management
One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Soil and Water Contamination, 2nd Edition
This textbook provides an overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and predict contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater, and surface water. In contract to most existing texts, soil and water pollution are treated as...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by CRC Press
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Sustainable Water and Sanitation Services
The Life-cycle Approach to Planning and Management
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Based on the work of the WASHCost project run by the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), this book provides an evaluation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors in the context of developing countries and is the first systematic study of applying the life-cycle...
To Be Published October 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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The Precautionary Principle in Marine Environmental Law
With Special Reference to High Risk Vessels
Series: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
The book examines whether the jurisdiction of coastal States under international law can be extended to include powers of intervention towards vessels posing a significant risk to their coastal and marine environment, but which have not yet been involved in any incident or accident. The books sets...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
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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...
Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
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The UN Watercourses Convention in Force
Strengthening International Law for Transboundary Water Management
At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses – a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems....
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society
Water is not only used in the domestic context, but also in agriculture and industry in the production of commercial goods, from food to paper. The water footprint is an indicator of freshwater use that looks at both direct and indirect use of water by a consumer or producer. The water footprint of...
Published April 7th 2013 by Routledge
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Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for the book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Transferable Groundwater Rights
Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...
Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Water as a Catalyst for Peace
Transboundary Water Management and Conflict Resolution
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts. The main premise is that water can and should be used as a catalyst for peace...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Ethics
A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis
Series: Earthscan Water Text
This book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are being acted out in water policies is fundamental to an understanding of water resource management. Thus in controversies or conflicts over water...
To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer
International Studies on Contextual Water Management
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to...
Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Water Resources
An Integrated Approach
The world faces huge challenges for water as population continues to grow, as emerging economies develop and as climate change alters the global and local water cycle. There are major questions to be answered about how we supply water in a sustainable and safe manner to fulfil our needs, while at...
To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Water Security
Principles, Perspectives and Practices
Series: Earthscan Water Text
The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the latest research, policy, practitioner, academic and international thinking on water security – an issue that, like water governance a few years ago, has developed much policy awareness and momentum with a wide range of stakeholders. As...
To Be Published October 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity
International Experiences
Series: RFF Press Water Policy Series
Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. In this book the role of water trading as an instrument of integrated water resources management is explored in depth. It is also shown to be...
Published November 18th 2012 by RFF Press
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Water Tech
A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector
This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakeholders can improve water use in their homes, their businesses, and the world. In particular, it focuses on the role of stakeholders in...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
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Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration
Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration offers a ray of hope in an increasingly gloomy scenario. This book is the first presentation of revolutionary new methods for restoring damaged marine ecosystems. It discusses new techniques for greatly increasing the recruitment, growth, survival,...
Published December 3rd 2012 by CRC Press