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Author : Frédéric Bazin,Jamie R. Skinner,Jérôme Koundouno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dams
ISBN : 1843698250
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IIED
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dams
ISBN : 9782831714646
Author : Anik Bhaduri,Janos Bogardi,Jan Leentvaar,Sina Marx
Publisher : Springer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319075488
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, relates institutional and technological innovations and identifies in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management. Until the industrial revolution, human beings and their activities played an insignificant role influencing the dynamics of the Earth system, the sum of our planet‘s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Today, humankind even exceeds nature in terms of changing the biosphere and affecting all other facets of Earth system functioning. A growing number of scientists argue that humanity has entered a new geological epoch that needs a corresponding name: the Anthropocene. Human activities impact the global water system as part of the Earth system and change the way water moves around the globe like never before. Thus, managing freshwater use wisely in the planetary water cycle has become a key challenge to reach global environmental sustainability.
Author : Raymond L Bryant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857936172
The International Handbook of Political Ecology features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, iss
Author : Bogumil Terminski
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838267234
This book explores the issue of development-induced resettlement, with a particular emphasis on the humanitarian, legal, and social aspects of this problem. Today, so-called 'development-induced displacement and resettlement' (DIDR) is one of the dominant causes of internal spatial mobility worldwide. Each year over 15 million people are forced to abandon their homes to make space for economic development infrastructure. The construction of dams and irrigation projects, the expansion of communication networks, urbanization and re-urbanization, the extraction and transportation of mineral resources, forced evictions in urban areas, and population redistribution schemes count among the many possible causes.Terminski aims to present the issue of development-caused displacement as a highly diverse, global social problem occurring in all regions of the world. As a human rights issue it poses a challenge to public international law and to institutions providing humanitarian assistance. A significant part of this book is devoted to the current dynamics of development-caused resettlement in Europe, which has been neglected in the academic literature so far.
Author : Marcella Nanni,Stefano Burchi,Ariella D’Andrea,Gabriel Eckstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351108812
Legal mechanisms for the management, development and protection of water resources have evolved over the years and have reached unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication. This phenomenon is largely in response to the global community’s sustainable development agenda, to the challenges and limitations imposed by climate variability, and to scientific and technological advances. Bringing together diverse experiences from across the world, this book analyses existing water law and governance solutions, their shortcomings, as well as developments and trends in the light of changing circumstances. The legal mechanisms examined range from international treaties, agreements and arrangements on cooperation over transboundary water resources, to the onset of novel issues arising out of technological advances, and from domestic regulation of water abstraction and groundwater management, to domestic regulation of the water industry. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International, following the XIV and the XV World Water Congresses of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), which were held in 2011 and in 2015, respectively. The chapters originally published in Water International.
Author : Patricia Wouters,Huiping Chen,James E. Nickum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351973700
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-date overview of current international transboundary water resource sharing policies and practices, including detailed case studies at both domestic and international levels. The authors discuss existing international laws, treaties, and principles that may stimulate transboundary water cooperation and dialogue, and then analyse a number of international experiences with treaties in North America, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. They take stock of China’s water resource issues, legal practices and options, examine case studies of China’s southern shared rivers, and explore some innovative approaches to cooperative management of shared waters within China. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.
Author : Jacqueline Peel,David Fisher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004318816
Located at the intersection of international environmental and disaster law, this edited volume explores how environmental law approaches might be employed to reduce disaster risk, and how evolving policy tools for natural disasters influence environmental regimes focused on manmade risks.
Author : Hari Mohan Mathur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136704215
Hari Mohan Mathur, PhD, is Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi. He has held senior positions in the government, including Chief Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan. Professor Mathur has also served as UN Advisor and Staff Consultant on development management and involuntary resettlement to the World Bank and ADB. In addition, he has also been the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan. He has authored and edited several books on anthropology, development administration and resettlement. --Book Jacket.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9782831711638
Species Survival Commission, Wetlands International and IUCN Water and Nature Initiative logos on cover.
Author : Hari Mohan Mathur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135047191
In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced for the sake of development. The book discusses how the affected farming communities are fiercely opposing the development projects that often leave them worse off than before, and how this conflict is a matter of serious concern for the planners, as it could discourage potential capital inflows and put India’s growth trajectory into jeopardy. It analyses the challenge of protecting the interests of farmers, and at the same time ensuring that these issues do not hinder the path of development. The book goes on to highlight the emerging approaches to resettlement that promise a more equitable development outcome. A timely analysis of displacement and resettlement, this book has an appeal beyond South Asian Studies alone. It is of interest to policy makers, planners, administrators, and scholars in the field of resettlement and development studies.
Author : Zeray Yihdego,Alistair Rieu-Clarke,Ana Elisa Cascão
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351661560
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa’s largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters, articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses. It sets out its possibilities as a basis for a new era of cooperation, its regional and global implications, the benefits of cooperation and coordination in dam filling, and the need for participatory and transparent decision making. By applying law, political science and hydrology to sharing water resources in general and to large-scale dam building, filling and operating in particular, it offers concrete qualitative and quantitative options that are essential to promote cooperation and coordination in utilising and preserving Nile waters. The book incorporates the economic dimension and draws on recent developments including: the signing of a legally binding contract by Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to carry out an impact assessment study; the possibility that the GERD might be partially operational very soon, the completion of transmission lines from GERD to Addis Ababa; and the announcement of Sudan to commence construction of transmission lines from GERD to its main cities. The implications of these are assessed and lessons learned for transboundary water cooperation and conflict management.
Author : Pál Nyíri,Danielle Tan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295999319
This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China’s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors use case studies to show the scale of Chinese influence in the region and the ways in which various countries mitigate their unequal relationship with China by negotiating asymmetry, circumventing hegemony, and embracing, resisting, or manipulating the terms dictated by Chinese capital.
Author : Cecilia Tortajada,Dogan Altinbilek,Asit K. Biswas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642235719
One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to meet the increasing water demands of the world and that their overall societal benefits far outweight the costs. In contrast, the opponents claim that social and environmental costs of large dams far exceed their benefits, and that the era of construction of large dams is over. A major reason as to why there is no consensus on the overall benefits of large dams is because objective, authoritative and comprehensive evaluations of their impacts, especially ten or more years after their construction, are conspicuous by their absence. This book debates impartially, comprehensively and objectively, the positive and negative impacts of large dams based on facts, figures and authoritative analyses. These in-depth case studies are expected to promote a healthy and balanced debate on the needs, impacts and relevance of large dams, with case studies from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America.