Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world. Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing population, it represents a potentially disastrous threat to water supplies, agriculture and food produc…
by Nałęcz, Tomasz, NATO FORACS AUTEC, NATO NFA on sustainable use of groundwater resources-transboundary water management, Jérusalem), NATO Public Diplomacy Division
fromNATO science for peace and security series
by Nałęcz, Tomasz, NATO FORACS AUTEC, NATO NFA on sustainable use of groundwater resources-transboundary water management, Jérusalem)
fromNATO science for peace and security series
This volume is the result of work carried out under the NATO SPS Study Pilot Project "Sustainable Use and Protection of Groundwater Resources - Transboundary Water Management." It contains basic information on hydrogeological conditions, groundwater management and monitoring in …
This book describes the ecological principles, policies, and practices required to create a sustainable future. It emphasizes practical, cost-effective, sustainable solutions to these problems that make sense from social, economic, and environmental perspectives.
"'Ecohydrology: Vegetation Function, Water and Resource Management' describes and provides a synthesis of the different disciplines required to understand the sustainable management of water in the environment in order to tackle issues such as dryland salinity and environmental …
Integrating knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives is a vital but difficult task for anyone working in water management. This book examines this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) both analytically and through the description of p…
. Water supply and sewerage/sanitation coverage amounts to over 98%, which makes Harare with the highest coverage. The city's high volume of water abstraction from its main water resource, Chivero, however, can no longer be sustained. The lake has been seriously polluted by larg…
The capital city of Zimbabwe, has adopted an urban water cycle that is geared towards high level service provision. Water supply and sewerage/sanitation coverage amounts to over 98%, which makes Harare with the highest coverage. The city's high volume of water abstraction from…
"Urban Flood Management will provide anyone active in the fields of water, risk and urban management with the latest information and insights that were obtained with a global and multidisciplinary approach."--BOOK JACKET.
Our current knowledge on chemicals in the Mediterranean Sea is presented. The increasing rates of exploitation and pollution are producing unprecedented environmental changes in this semi-enclosed sea, which is often considered a unique model to study global change evolution of …
Symbioses and Stress centers on the question of how organisms in tight symbiotic associations cope with various types of abiotic and biotic stress. In its original sense, symbioses cover all kinds of interactions among unrelated organisms, whereas in a narrower concept, the term…
