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  • Water Policy and Governance in Canada

    Edición de Steven Renzetti, Diane P. Dupont ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy. It adopts a multidisciplinary variety of perspectives and considers local, basin, provincial and national scales. Canada’s leading authorities from the social sciences, life and natural sciences address pressing water issues in a non-technical language, making them accessible to a wide ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • The Economics of Water Demands

    de Steven Renzetti ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book arose out of a paper that I wrote for the World Bank at the request of Ariel Dinar, the editor for the series in which this volume appears. I began that paper by pointing to the growing importance of demand-side considerations in water resources: "The provision of potable water is one of government's oldest functions with evidence of this activity stretching back thousands of years. ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

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  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edición de Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Libro 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy

    Insights from International Experience

    Edición de Alexandros Maziotis, Manuel Lago, Gonzalo Delacámara, Carlos M. Gómez, Jaroslav Mysiak ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Micro Irrigation Systems in India

    Emergence, Status and Impacts

    Edición de M. Dinesh Kumar, A. Narayanamoorthy, P K Viswanathan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India’s agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades. Based on empirical research from the major agriculturally dynamic states, viz., Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, the book provides a nuanced understanding and objective assessment of ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain

    Policy Implications

    de Alberto Garrido, M. Ramón Llamas, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Paula Novo, Roberto Rodríguez-Casado, Maite M. Aldaya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    1.1 General Framework In most arid and semi-arid countries, water resource management is an issue that is both important and controversial. Most water resources experts now acknowledge that water conflicts are not caused by physical scarcity but are mainly due to poor water management (Rosegrant et al. 2002; Benoit and Comeau 2005; Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture 2007; ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems

    Proceedings from the UIMP International Course held in Valencia, December 1997

    Edición de Enrique Cabrera, Jorge García-Serra ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems. Because droughts are natural phenomena, water utilities must design and implement drought management plans. This topic was selected for the International Course on Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems, which took place in Valencia, Spain, on 9-12 December ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

    de Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Tree Faller's Manual

    Techniques for Standard and Complex Tree-Felling Operations

    de ForestWorks ...
    The Tree Faller’s Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. This manual builds on the information provided by the Chainsaw Operator’s Manual.Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being struck by falling trees, dislodged tree limbs or other dangers in ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World

    Choosing Between Progress and Planet

    de Andrew Charlton ...
    Series Libro 44 - Quarterly Essay
    Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: 'The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.'In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will shape our future- progress versus planet- rich versus poor. In ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    de Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Leer más

    $28.39 USD

  • BP Blowout

    Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster

    de Daniel Jacobs ...
    The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequencesBP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident, which destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killed 11 people. The ensuing oil dischargethe ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD