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"This compilation of papers provides useful insights on the differing approaches to water quality and the diversity of strategies in water quality management worldwide. Considering the current situation and looking to the future, the aim of this publication is to provide a sensi…
"The world's freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The…
"An analysis of how management institutions may fail to cope with freshwater scarcity and how to reform them" -- Provided by publisher.
Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in contemporary regulatory regimes for water. This book considers that question in the context of two key trajecto…
The Research Handbook on International Water Law surveys the field of the law of shared freshwater resources. In some thirty chapters, it covers subjects ranging from the general principles operative in the field and international groundwater law to the human right to water and …
Introduction : global water ethics : towards a water ethics charter / Rafael Ziegler and David Groenfeldt -- A brief history of efforts to articulate global water ethics / Susan Lea Smith -- What is water ethics and to what end do we study it? : lessons for the water ethics char…
This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing worldwide water stress on international peace and security, as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, the author argues tha…
"This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma Che…
V. 1. "Cette histoire commence dans la nuit des temps. Un homme qui passe remarque un arbuste dont les branches se terminent par des flocons blancs. On peut imaginer qu'il approche la main. L'espèce humaine vient de faire connaissance avec la douceur du coton. Depuis des années,…
" Dans dix ans, dans vingt ans, aurons-nous assez d'eau ? Assez d'eau pour boire ? Assez d'eau pour faire pousser les plantes ? Assez d'eau pour éviter qu'à toutes les raisons de faire la guerre s'ajoute celle du manque d'eau ? Dans l'espoir de répondre à ces questions, je me su…
"Dans dix ans, dans vingt ans, aurons-nous assez d'eau? Assez d'eau pour boire? Assez d'eau pour faire pousser les plantes? Assez d'eau pour éviter qu'à toutes les raisons de faire la guerre s'ajoute celle du manque d'eau? Dans l'espoir de répondre à ces questions, je me suis pr…
