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Author : UN-Water/Africa (Agency)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123160488
Author : William J. Cosgrove,Frank R. Rijsberman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134201624
More than a billion people cannot get safe drinking water; half the world's population does not have adequate sanitation; within a generation over three billion will be suffering from water stress. This text analyzes the issues in this crisis of management and shows how water can be used effectively and productively. The key to sustainable water resources is an integrated approach. The authors assert that careful planning and concerted action can make the fundamental changes needed and that the implications of not dealing with the crisis are immense. The book comes with downloadable resources containing background research and scenarios.
Author : Mark W. Rosegrant,Ximing Cai,Sarah A. Cline
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896296466
A thirsty world; Alternative futures for water; Consequences of key policy changes; Implications for the future.
Author : L. Hens,Bhaskar Nath
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402036538
This book provides an overview of the most important issues as they are dealt with in the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development’s Plan of Implementation. It addresses the science behind the discussions on poverty, production and consumption patterns, water, energy, Small Island Developing States, sustainability issues in Central/Eastern Europe and Latin America, and the role of the financial world in the sustainable development of education, science and research.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Integrated water development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110452021
Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 9780889368040
Water Management in Africa and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8277011946
Sanitation, including the proper management of wastewater, is central to ensuring human and ecosystem health, and economic and environmental benefits. While significant efforts are being made across Africa to ensure better access and services, many places still have inadequate infrastructure for sanitation and wastewater management. This is happening at a time of greater need due to population growth, rapid urbanization, improving lifestyles, and industrial and agricultural expansion - all in a region that has low resilience to climate change. This atlas - a joint effort by the African Development Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, and GRID-Arendal - profiles the state and trends in wastewater management and sanitation delivery in Africa; highlights the human health and ecosystem impacts of poor sanitation and wastewater management; and discusses the continent's policy and institutional arrangements. It benchmarks Africa's progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other aspirations, including Africa's Agenda 2063 and Africa's Water Vision 2025. The findings of the atlas will allow policymakers to track progress on sanitation and wastewater, making it a valuable tool to accelerate change.
Author : UNESCO Office Nairobi and Regional Bureau for Science in Africa
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005220
Author : Salif Diop,Peter Scheren,Awa Niang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030612252
The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable areas, exploring potential management responses to such vulnerabilities. The African countries are particularly exposed and vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, with important impacts on water resources and hydrological systems, water availability, water resource management and sea level variations. Already, under various anthropogenic pressures, the status of water resources in Africa has been changing over the past decades, with decreasing water quality, falling groundwater levels, and variability in rainfall, both in terms of timing and intensity. Climate change will further accelerate the rate of change, affecting the ability of people and societies to respond in a timely manner. It is clear that there is no quick fix to the pressures imposed on water resources by climate change. Increasing the resilience of ecosystems and communities to extreme events such as flooding and drought, and integrating climate change risks and opportunities into development decision-making is indeed a key challenge, as much a technical climate-change one, as a political and developmental challenge. The book, in this regard, intends to contribute to the debate around climate change in relation to water resources management in Africa, and in particular inform policy decisions and actions that will improve governments’ and communities’ ability to manage the challenges of climate change and variability in relation to the aquatic ecosystems that they depend on. The knowledge collected in this book will benefit policy makers, researchers, as well as other stakeholders.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780821386187
Africa's Water and Sanitation InfrastructureùAccess, Affordability, and Alternatives integrates a wealth of primary and secondary information to present a quantitative snapshot of the state of the WSS sectors in Africa. It explains the sectoral institutional structures and utility performance and articulates the volume and quality of financing available over time. The authors also evaluate the challenges to the WSS sectors and explore the factors that govern the expansion of coverage over time. Finally, the authors estimate spending needs for WSS, arriving at a funding gap for meeting the MDGs. The proposed directions for the future draw on lessons learned from best practices and present the menu of choices available to African countries, bearing in mind that the challenges differ to a significant extent among countries and solutions must be tailored to national or regional conditions. --Book Jacket.
Author : United Nations,United Nations Environment Programme,United Nations Dept,African Ministerial Conference on the Environment
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789280726916
This is the second comprehensive report on the state of Africa's environment, produced in collaboration with the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). This report highlights the central position Africa's environment continues to play in sustainable development, as well as its potential to achieve progress in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. The report profiles Africa's environmental resources as an asset for the continent's development. It highlights the opportunities presented by the region's natural resource base to support the continent's development. It also underscores the concept of sustainable livelihoods, and the importance of the environmental initiatives in supporting them.
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Risk assessment
ISBN : 9789231042355
Released every three years since March 2003, the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), a flagship UN-Water report published by UNESCO, has become the voice of the United Nations system in terms of the state, use and management of the world's freshwater resources. The report is primarily targeted at national decision-makers and water resource managers, but is also aimed at educating and informing a broader audience, from governments to the private sector and civil society. It underlines the important roles water plays in all social, economic and environmental decisions, highlighting policy implications across various sectors, from local and municipal to regional and international levels. Similarly to the first two editions, this report includes a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of several key challenge areas, such as water for food, energy and human health, and governance challenges such as institutional reform, knowledge and capacity-building, and financing, each produced by individual UN agencies.
Author : Chrispin Kowenje,Andreas Haarstrick,Timothy Biswick,Gideon Ajeagah,Stephen Ojwach,Oluwatoyin A. Odeku,Gnon Baba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031096631
This book preserves and scientifically interprets the African foreknowledge on water resources management. It offers insight into the relevance of the traditional knowledge and practices to modern approaches on sustainable water management. The African continent has partially preserved its natural habitat for centuries. In this book, this knowledge is combined with the current scientific understanding. The traditional practices are categorized as: i) water harvesting, ii) water transportation, iii) water storage and conservation, iv) water treatments, v) myths and folk stories about water management or conservation, vi) water resource management systems, and vii) soil–water–forest conservation/management systems sub-topics. The findings presented here are in line with SDG 6, which aims at ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by the year 2030.
Author : Richard C Ragaini
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813149007
Proceedings of the 48th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This Seminar has again gathered, in 2015, over one hundred scientists from 43 countries in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 32 years, to examine and analyze planetary problems which had been followed up, all year long, by the World Federation of Scientists' Permanent Monitoring Panels.
Author : Mutanga, Shingirirai Savious,Simelane, Thokozani,Pophiwa, Nedson
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780798303750
Africa is one continent severely affected by the ravaging effects of global environment change yet it is least responsible for this. The continent's rural and urban poor are particularly vulnerable to reduced agricultural production, worsening food security, increased incidence of both flooding and drought, spreading of disease and heightening risk of conflict over scarce land and water resources. As such this timely book consisting of chapters authored by scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds provides the reader a variety of contexts from which to understand the impacts of global environmental change and how affected African communities are adapting an mitigating the scourge. In addition it discusses different models for mitigation and adaptation applicable to local contexts.
