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Balancing Water for Humans and Nature : The New Approach in Ecohydrology. (2004)

Falkenmark, Malin.

Oxford :Taylor & Francis Group,

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Keywords: Ecohydrology. ; Human ecology. ; Water use. ; Electronic books.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: 1 online resource (272 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781849770521

URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=430002

DDC: 577.6

Language: English

Note: Intro -- Balancing Water for Humans and Nature: The New Approach in Ecohydrology -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Plates, Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Water Functions in the Life-support System -- Chapter 1: Water - The Bloodstream of the Biosphere -- Water as the liquid of life -- Focusing on invisible water -- Different scales of water-plant interaction -- Human landscape interventions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Water Availability - Expanding the Perspective -- A conceptual shift to incorporate water for ecosystems -- Introducing soil water into the water balance equation -- Water resource estimates -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Human Water Requirements -- Household and industrial water needs -- Distinguishing between water use and consumptive water use -- Current green water requirements for food production -- Generic human water requirements -- Additional water requirements to feed humanity by 2050 -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Incorporating Water for Ecosystem 'Services' -- Expanding the paradigm -- Water flows to sustain food production -- Green water flows are sustaining major biomes -- Committed and uncommitted water flows -- The blue water bias is unwarranted -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Regional Differences -- The green water perspective -- The blue water perspective -- The combined perspective -- Summary -- Part 2: Closing Up on the Vulnerable Savanna Zone -- Chapter 6: Vulnerability of the Savanna Zone -- Drylands - the cradle of mankind -- Savanna agro-ecosystems - a most difficult challenge -- Hydroclimatic challenges and opportunities -- The need to distinguish droughts and dry spells -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Water Perspectives on Feeding Humanity -- More crop per drop -- Can irrigation expansion solve the food challenge? -- Potential to increase rainfed production. , More crop per drop by reducing non-productive green water losses -- Global assessment of the water that can be gained -- Remaining water requirements to feed humanity -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Closing the Yield Gap on the Savanna - The Real World Perspective -- Changing the farmers' risk perception -- Broadening the narrow approaches of the past -- Water sources for dry spell mitigation -- The upstream-downstream perspective -- Summary -- Part 3: Socio-ecohydrological Balancing -- Chapter 9: Finding the Balance between Water for Humans and for Nature -- Humans and ecosystems depend on the same water -- Learning to live with change -- The challenge of feeding humanity -- Implications for management of catchments -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Towards Hydrosolidarity through Integrated Land/Water/Ecosystem Management -- Human life support and the Millennium Declaration -- Present shifts in thinking and challenges to the 'sanctioned discourse' -- Combining social, ecological and economic approaches -- The road towards hydrosolidarity -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Earth for All : A Survival Guide for Humanity. (2022)

Dixson-Decleve, Sandrine.

Gabriola Island :New Society Publishers, Limited,

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Description / Table of Contents: Earth For All is an antidote to despair. Combining the global economy, population, inequality, food, and energy in a state-of-the art computer model, a leading group of scientists and economists present a plan of five system-shifting steps to achieve prosperity for all within planetary limits in a single generation.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: 1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781550927795

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DDC: 363.738/74-- dc23

Language: English

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Rethinking Water Management : Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Issues. (2003)

Figueres, Caroline.

Oxford :Taylor & Francis Group,

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Keywords: Water resources development. ; Electronic books.

Type of Medium: Online Resource

Pages: 1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781136558252

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DDC: 333.91

Language: English

Note: Cover -- Rethinking Water Management -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures, tables and boxes -- About the contributors -- Foreword by Asit K Biswas -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rethinking development paradigms for the water sector -- Introduction -- Sustainable development -- Environmental sustainability of water projects -- Case study of Mexico -- Conclusions -- References -- 3. Global and local agendas in water management: From vision to action -- Introduction -- Global-local agendas in water management: Theory and practice -- Research questions -- Recommended actions: New regionalism for water management in the Middle East -- Conclusions -- References -- 4. Balancing between the eternal yesterday and the eternal tomorrow: Economic globalization, water and equity -- Introduction -- The different aspects of globalization -- Economic globalization and water -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Notes -- References -- 5. Managing rain for the future -- Introduction -- Water and food security: Sorting out the facts -- Making more food with the same rainfall -- Win-win solutions based on integrated rain management -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 6. Recycling and reuse of 'derivative water' under conditions of scarcity and competition -- Introduction -- Bridging the scarcity divide: Recycling secondary or 'derivative' water -- Management and policy options for effluent irrigation -- Case descriptions of planned and unplanned reuse -- Conclusions: Next generation issues for derivative water use -- Notes -- References -- 7. Rethinking groundwater management -- Introduction -- Detrimental impacts of groundwater non-management -- A shift in groundwater management approaches: Towards providing incentives for more sustainable use -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References. , 8. Water rights and their management: A comparative country study and its implication for China -- Introduction -- Legal and economic aspects of property rights -- Water resources as common pool resources -- Typical water rights assignments and their characteristics -- Water rights reform in China: Theoretical and practical explorations towards efficient water resources management -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 9. The present and future of transboundary water management -- Introduction -- The transboundary freshwater dispute database -- International institutions and indicators of conflict -- Baskets of benefits -- Why might the future look nothing like the past? -- Conclusion: What types of policy recommendations can one make? -- Notes -- References -- 10. Forgetting political boundaries in identifying water development potentials in the basin-wide approach: The Ganges-Bhahmaputra- Meghna issues -- Introduction -- Regional water-based development context -- Regional water-resource utilization issues -- Regional water-based development potentials -- Broad-based conclusions and recommendations -- Notes -- References -- 11. Let's pump money in the water sector! -- Introduction -- Today's four major challenges -- Suggested actions to improve the situation -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 12. Conclusion: The way forward -- Entry point to sustainable water management -- Change of water paradigm is required -- Sharing common water resources: Paradigm shifts in the light of globalization -- The future water manager -- Sustainable development: From rhetoric to action -- Rain is water: Broadening the resource base -- Innovative management options -- Invisible water resources: The need for new action -- Water rights and user involvement -- Capacity building and knowledge shifts towards integrating water management. , The inter-generation challenge -- Index.

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