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  • Source-to-Sea Management

    Edited by Josh Weinberg, Fang Qinhua, Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa, Greg Leslie, James E. Nickum ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    This book is the first of its kind on the emerging topic of source-to-sea management. It showcases different applications of the concept to improve the environmental health of freshwater, land and coastal and marine systems, drawing upon research performed across Europe, Africa and Asia.Improved management of land, freshwater, coasts and oceans is a key environmental challenge of our time. It is ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Groundwater

    Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Knowledge

    Edited by Raya Marina Stephan, James E. Nickum, Philippus Wester ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere. Everything around us relies on groundwater, our drinking water and sanitation, our food supply and our natural environment. Yet because it is invisible, information, management and governance of groundwater is often poor and inadequate. This book contributes to UN Water Groundwater year (2022), and to the effort of “making the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Smart Water Management

    Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name?

    Edited by Henning Bjornlund, Stephanie Kuisma, James E. Nickum, Raya Marina Stephan ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management (SWM) approach. Smart Water Management has increasingly been promoted to manage water and wastewater more efficiently and cost effectively by industries and utilities in urban contexts at regional or city scales, while reducing overall consumption. It is based on the use of Information and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance

    Edited by James E. Nickum, Raya Marina Stephan, Henning Bjornlund ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures.Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 on Water and Sanitation emphasizes the centrality of improving water quality to attain sustainable development. Yet the obstacles to achieving this goal are ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Metropolitan Water Use Conflicts In Asia And The Pacific

    Edited by James E. Nickum ...
    Although Asia is the least urbanized continent, it contains half of the world’s megacities and many of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Urban growth is already stressing local water supplies and causing intense conflict among water users—between haves and have-nots in urban areas as well as between farmers and fishers outside the cities. In addition, concern is growing over the depletion and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Revival: Water Management Organization in the People's Republic of China (1982)

    by James E. Nickum ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Combining a journalist's view of major trials with a political-legal analysis, this text gives a picture of the politics of justice in Russia. Coverage of major court cases ranges from the 1961 trial of the "currency speculators" to the Communist Party trial of 1992. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Transboundary Water Cooperation

    Principles, Practice and Prospects for China and Its Neighbours

    Edited by Patricia Wouters, Huiping Chen, James E. Nickum ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these operate in China is of global significance.Grounded in international experience, this comprehensive volume provides readers with an up-to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Water Legacies of Conventional Mining

    Edited by James E. Nickum, David B. Brooks, Surina Esterhuyse, Anthony Turton ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much as – or even more than – hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The legacy issues of such mining on water have not been fully appreciated, especially the irretrievable effects mining has had on communities and ecosystems around the world through its impact on water. Yet this is not ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by World Bank ...
    Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Integrated Groundwater Management

    Concepts, Approaches and Challenges

    Edited by Anthony J Jakeman, Olivier Barreteau, Randall J Hunt, Jean-Daniel Rinaudo, Andrew Ross ...
    The aim of this book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge, one that remains one of humanity’s foremost priorities. It has become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from how to simply ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Cities

    First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

    Edited by Cynthia Rosenzweig, William D. Solecki, Stephen A. Hammer, Shagun Mehrotra ...
    Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

  • Water Resources Planning and Management

    Edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Karen Hussey ...
    Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever ... Read more

    $122.19 USD