Which approaches can landscape, urban and architectural designers take to contribute their specific professional skills and means to solve the problem of water scarcity? What potential do available technologies and materials offer, what methods and tools can be derived from soci…
'"In this era of late liberal settler colonialism, cartography as a methodology is critical to rearticulating our radically contingent relationships with the living lands, seas, and skies. Kanaka Maoli and critical settler cartographies in Hawai'i reveal the ways that climate ch…
Contributed articles moderated by the editors on behalf of the Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflict in India.
Water conflicts in India have now percolated to every level. They are aggravated by the relative paucity of frameworks, policies and mechanisms to govern the use of water resources. Based on the premise that understanding and documenting different types of water conflict cases…
Back to basics: towards a functional definition of Roman monumental fountains -- A brief overview of fountain architecture in the Greek and Roman east -- Fountains and urban water networks -- Flowing waters: the hydraulic apparatus of monumental fountains -- Hydraulic impact and…
In Privatizing Water, Karen Bakker focuses on three questions: Why did privatization emerge as a preferred alternative for managing urban water supply? Can privatization fulfill its proponents' expectations, particularly with respect to water supply to the urban poor? And, given…
This collection of papers explains how knowledge and capacity development can contribute to improved, effective water management with a digest of lessons learned in the areas of development of tools and techniques, field applications and evaluation. The authors are prominent pr…
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: they turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. They use more water than any other culture in the world. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and prod…
"Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and sewer service for African A…
Our thirst for water grows with our population, but the amount of fresh water available on Earth is fixed. This book explores water and food production at global and regional scales. The collection offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant issues.
This text explores water management strategies through scientific, social and political perspectives, and uses case studies to exemplify four key development challenges: economic growth; poverty reduction; competition and conflict over water; and adaptation to climate change.
by Lipchin, Clive, Sandler, Deborah, NATO Public Diplomacy Division, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Water Resources and Infrastructure in Areas of Conflict and Extreme Conditions, Ein Gedi, Israel)
fromNATO science for peace and security series
"Protecting drinking-water resources is the first barrier against pathogens and substances hazardous to health. Practitioners in drinking-water supply or surveillance - from the local and technical level up to senior management - have a key role in initiating collaboration with …
This publication provides a structured approach to analyzing hazards to groundwater quality, assessing the risk they may cause for a specific supply, setting priorities in addressing these, and developing management strategies for their control. This book summarizes which pathog…
