Integrated Water Resource Management In Brazil

Author : Carsten Lorz,Franz Makeschin,Holger Weiss
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780404899

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Integrated Water Resource Management in Brazil by Carsten Lorz,Franz Makeschin,Holger Weiss Pdf

The complex interactions between water resources, land-use change and water technologies are a major issue in many emerging countries of Southern America. Usable water resources are affected by natural conditions, such as, strong seasonal contrasts and high climatic variability, and rapid changes of land use and land cover that is caused by the dramatic expansion of agricultural land and urbanization processes. So far, the effects of the changing climate have had minor effects on water resources. Although regional data is rather scarce, global climate models predict substantial changes of climatic conditions in the future. A further pressure is that demand for water supply and waste water, both in terms of amount and spatial expansion, is increasing rapidly due to higher population densities caused by natural population growth and migration as well as higher per capita consumption. Integrated Water Resource Management in Brazil aims to present the results of the joint project IWAS-AGUA DF which deals with problems, causes and solutions in water supply in scope of integrated water resource management in western Central Brazil. The basic idea of the IWRM approach to be presented is to show how natural conditions and human interference are interacting and how technologies as well as concepts might help to manage such water resource systems in a sustainable way. Authors: Carsten Lorz, Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Franz Makeschin, Dresden University of Technology, Germany and Holger Weiss, Center for Environmental Research, Germany

Author : Edson de Oliveira Vieira,Samuel Sandoval-Solis,Valmir de Albuquerque Pedrosa,J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida
Publisher : Springer
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030165659

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Integrated Water Resource Management by Edson de Oliveira Vieira,Samuel Sandoval-Solis,Valmir de Albuquerque Pedrosa,J. Pablo Ortiz-Partida Pdf

This book presents case studies that share important experiences regarding Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in various countries. Following an introduction to theoretical concepts, responsibilities, and challenges, the subsequent chapters address, among other topics, an analysis of policies and regulations for water management in Brazil, the drivers that led California to adapt to the IWRM framework, and the international regulations for water markets and water banking in Australia and Chile. The implications of climate change for water resource systems in Mexico are discussed, as well as management strategies from California that could potentially serve as IWRM adaptation schemes in Mexico. Critical cases from Guanacaste (Costa Rica), and from Zayandehrud River Basin and Lake Urmia (Iran) are reviewed in terms of management practices and solutions. The book also provides an overview of the current availability and use of water resources in South Korea, and discusses the management of and international water law instruments for transboundary groundwater in Africa.

Author : Miguel A. Mariño,Slobodan P. Simonović
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : 1901502716

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Integrated Water Resources Management by Miguel A. Mariño,Slobodan P. Simonović Pdf

Author : Neil S. Grigg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137576156

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Integrated Water Resource Management by Neil S. Grigg Pdf

This book addresses the enormous global challenge of providing balanced and sustainable solutions to urgent water problems. The author explores our dependence on access to safe water and other water-related services and how driving forces of the human and natural worlds are degrading this access. The greatest challenges involve conflicts between people and interest groups across all countries, as well as the economic and political difficulties in finding solutions through infrastructure development. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to Integrated Water Resources Management or IWRM, which provides a set of tools for policy development, planning and organization, assessment, systems analysis, finance, and regulation. The author suggests that IWRM is challenging because of the human element, but that no other process can reconcile the conflicting agendas involved with water management. The broad range of topics covered here, as well as 25 case summaries, will be of interest to scientists, engineers, practitioners, and advanced level students interested in the integrated management of water as a resource.

Author : Gabriel Belmino Freitas,Márcio Antônio Sousa Da Rocha Freitas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798716408265

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Resilient Water Resources Management by Gabriel Belmino Freitas,Márcio Antônio Sousa Da Rocha Freitas Pdf

This book entitled Integrated Resilient Water Resources Management attempts to address the main aspects of integrated management of water resources, climate change and sustainable development in Brazil in recent decades. The book consists of three parts, namely: i) Integrated Resilient Water Resources Management; ii) Climate Resilience in Water Resources and iii) Sustainability in Water Resources.It is a fact that we are living in an era of great uncertainties related to the climate and that we need tools for climate-resilient water management approaches. In recent decades, climate change is accelerating and disrupting the economies of many countries on a global scale and affecting livelihoods, especially through the impact on water and water-related risks. In this sense, it is imperative to incorporate Climate Risks in Decision Making in the integrated resilient water resources management.Thus, the first part of the book (chapter 1 and 2) presents a brief analysis of the current model of integrated water resources management in Brazil, with its advances and implementation problems, in order to present proposals for its improvement. The current water resources management model is discussed with an emphasis on aspects of regulation and social control (seeking efficiency and improving quality and rescuing the public sphere as an instrument for exercising citizenship, among other aspects). We sought to analyze the theme from a theoretical-historical approach to regulation (water management models implemented in Brazil and the genesis of regulatory agencies) and participatory management of water resources, involving the relationship of the State and the public sphere, in especially within river basin committees and water agencies....Therefore, policies related to the management of water resources, the environment and climate change in Brazil are analyzed in a certain way.The Editor.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264238121

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OECD Studies on Water Water Resources Governance in Brazil by OECD Pdf

This book assesses the performance of Brazil’s water governance and suggests policy recommendations for strengthening the co-ordination between federal and state water policies and for setting up more robust water allocation regimes that can better cope with future risks.

Author : Dietrich Borchardt,Janos J. Bogardi,Ralf B. Ibisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319250717

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Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation by Dietrich Borchardt,Janos J. Bogardi,Ralf B. Ibisch Pdf

This book reviews the concept, contemporary research efforts and the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The IWRM concept was established as an international guiding water management paradigm in the early 1990ies and has become a vital approach to solving the problems associated with the topic of water. The book summarizes fourteen comprehensive IWRM research projects with worldwide coverage and analyses their motivations, settings, approaches and implementation of results. Aiming to be an up-to-date interdisciplinary scientific reference, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary IWRM research, examples of science based implementations and a synthesis of the lessons learnt. It concludes with some major future challenges, the solving of which will further strengthen the IWRM concept.

Author : Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo,José Galizia Tundisi,Marcos Cortesão Barnsley Scheuenstuhl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319413723

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Waters of Brazil by Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo,José Galizia Tundisi,Marcos Cortesão Barnsley Scheuenstuhl Pdf

This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue. The water cycle was addressed based on an integrated point of view, aiming at joining technological and ecological solutions and integrating quantitative and qualitative aspects of this important environmental asset. Issues such as the water resources management and irrigated agriculture, water and health, water and economy, conservation and reuse as management tools, water in the Brazilian semi arid, water in Amazon, urbanization and water resources, education for the sustainability of water resources, groundwater, availability, pollution and eutrophication of water and science, technology and innovation are of the utmost importance for this exact moment in Brazil, and particularly to the State of Sao Paulo. Addressing these issues will undoubtedly contribute towards a sustainable management of water resources trough the coordinated work of different fields of science, progressing a systemic view about water, that would then finally allow management professionals the possibility of an integral action in anticipating problems and thus anticipate solutions.

Author : Asit K. Biswas,Benedito P.F. Braga,Cecilia Tortajada,Marco Palermo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317989851

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Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America by Asit K. Biswas,Benedito P.F. Braga,Cecilia Tortajada,Marco Palermo Pdf

It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been assumed explicitly to be "the" solution for managing the limited water resources of the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in promoting IWRM in developing countries. However, no serious and objective analysis has ever been undertaken as to whether IWRM has made water management more efficient and equitable in any region of the world than otherwise may have been the case. This pioneering analysis indicates that IWRM has not only been unsuccessful in Latin America, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. The reasons and constraints for this failure are outlined. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317526872

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Revisiting Integrated Water Resources Management by Cecilia Tortajada Pdf

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include the implementation status of the IWRM concept at local, basin, regional and national levels; its appropriateness for the twenty-first century; main implementation gaps from the institutional, legal, policy, governance, management and technical viewpoints; the likelihood that IWRM’s entrenchment in laws, regulations and policies has led to smoother implementation and the reasons why that has been the case; reflexions on whether the attention given to IWRM is pushing other alternatives to the policy periphery; and the new conceptual constructions that can be put forward for discussion in the international arena. For the development and water communities it is imperative to debate and reach towards more illustrative conclusions regarding whether the promotion of the IWRM concept and its actual implementation status have been beneficial for development and how the notion could evolve to achieve this end. In-depth objective and constructive discussions, arguments, proposals and ideas are put forward for analysis by all interested parties. The book has the objective of fostering scholarly exchange, encouraging intellectual debate and promoting the advancement of knowledge and understanding of IWRM as a concept, as a goal per se and as a strategy towards development goals. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317526865

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Revisiting Integrated Water Resources Management by Cecilia Tortajada Pdf

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include the implementation status of the IWRM concept at local, basin, regional and national levels; its appropriateness for the twenty-first century; main implementation gaps from the institutional, legal, policy, governance, management and technical viewpoints; the likelihood that IWRM’s entrenchment in laws, regulations and policies has led to smoother implementation and the reasons why that has been the case; reflexions on whether the attention given to IWRM is pushing other alternatives to the policy periphery; and the new conceptual constructions that can be put forward for discussion in the international arena. For the development and water communities it is imperative to debate and reach towards more illustrative conclusions regarding whether the promotion of the IWRM concept and its actual implementation status have been beneficial for development and how the notion could evolve to achieve this end. In-depth objective and constructive discussions, arguments, proposals and ideas are put forward for analysis by all interested parties. The book has the objective of fostering scholarly exchange, encouraging intellectual debate and promoting the advancement of knowledge and understanding of IWRM as a concept, as a goal per se and as a strategy towards development goals. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Asit K. Biswas,Benedito P.F. Braga,Cecilia Tortajada,Marco Palermo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317989844

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Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America by Asit K. Biswas,Benedito P.F. Braga,Cecilia Tortajada,Marco Palermo Pdf

It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been assumed explicitly to be "the" solution for managing the limited water resources of the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in promoting IWRM in developing countries. However, no serious and objective analysis has ever been undertaken as to whether IWRM has made water management more efficient and equitable in any region of the world than otherwise may have been the case. This pioneering analysis indicates that IWRM has not only been unsuccessful in Latin America, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. The reasons and constraints for this failure are outlined. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 9789231041143

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Integrated Water Resources Management in Action by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shimelis Gebriye Setegn,Maria Concepcion Donoso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319121949

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Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management by Shimelis Gebriye Setegn,Maria Concepcion Donoso Pdf

The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate. The book also addresses the question of how to define and measure the sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The sustainability of IWRM is an important issue when planning and/or developing policies that consider the impact of climate change, water governance and ecohydrology in the context of a more holistic approach to ensure sustainable management of water resources. Sustainable IWRM is more about processes, and relatively little systematic or rigorous work has been done to articulate what components are the most essential to ensure the ongoing sustainability of IWRM efforts. The chapters cover topics including global prospective of IWRM; allocation of environmental flows in IWRM; echohydrology, water resources and environmental sustainability; climate change and IWRM; IWRM and water governance including social, economic, public health and cultural aspects; climate change resiliency actions related to water resources management sustainability and tools in support of sustainability for IWRM. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, water resources mangers, policy and decision makers, donors, international institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educators, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. It is a useful reference for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecohydrology, climate change impact and adaptations, water governance, environmental flows, geographic information system and modeling tools, water and energy nexus and related topics.

Author : Joe Makuch
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788121642

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Agricultural Perspectives on Water Resource Management in the America's by Joe Makuch Pdf

Contains 224 citations on the topic of water resource management in the U.S., Canada, Central & South America. Includes articles on rural perspectives, water pollution, water quality, etc. Most citations contain abstracts. Author & subject index.