Water In Himalayan Towns Lessons For Adaptive Water Governance

Author : Anjal Prakash,David Molden
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789061895

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Water in Himalayan Towns: Lessons for Adaptive Water Governance by Anjal Prakash,David Molden Pdf

Increasing urbanization and changing climate are two critical stressors that are adversely affecting the biophysical environment of urban areas in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. The book discusses various choices and options – from demand management to supply enhancement, understanding ecological footprints of towns to managing water at a bioregional scale. In doing so, it is vital to address issues of equity and empower local institutions in managing water. The focus for the future must be on building urban resilience by strengthening the adaptive capacities of affected communities while also understanding the limits to adaptation. In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the sector.

Author : Kireet Kumar
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : 8173870470

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Water Management in Himalayan Ecosystem by Kireet Kumar Pdf

Author : Jan Adamowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 1887201815

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Integrated and Adaptive Water Resources Planning, Management, and Governance by Jan Adamowski Pdf

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3070 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009445382

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Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Pdf

The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The report recognizes the interactions of climate, ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies, and integrates across the natural, ecological, social and economic sciences. It emphasizes how efforts in adaptation and in reducing greenhouse gas emissions can come together in a process called climate resilient development, which enables a liveable future for biodiversity and humankind. The IPCC is the leading body for assessing climate change science. IPCC reports are produced in comprehensive, objective and transparent ways, ensuring they reflect the full range of views in the scientific literature. Novel elements include focused topical assessments, and an atlas presenting observed climate change impacts and future risks from global to regional scales. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Carol Howe,Cynthia Mitchell
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843393641

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Water Sensitive Cities by Carol Howe,Cynthia Mitchell Pdf

Today’s urban water managers are faced with an unprecedented set of issues that call for a different approach to urban water management. These include the urgent changes needed to respond to climate change, population growth, growing resource constraints, and rapidly increasing global urbanization. Not only are these issues difficult to address, but they are facing us in an environment that is increasingly unpredictable and complex. Although innovative, new tools are now available to water professionals to address these challenges, solving the water problems of tomorrow cannot be done by the water professionals alone. Instead, the city of the future, whether in the developed or developing world, must integrate water management planning and operations with other city services to meet the needs of humans and the environment in a dramatically superior manner. Water Sensitive Cities has been developed from selected papers from 2009 Singapore Water Week “Planning for Sustainable Solutions” and also papers taken from other IWA events. It pulls together material that supports the water professionals’ need for useful and up-to-date material. Authors: Carol Howe, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands Cynthia Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Author : Dale Whittington ,Xun Wu
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789061451

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Improving Water Governance in Kathmandu: Insights from Systems Thinking and Behavioural Science by Dale Whittington ,Xun Wu Pdf

The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out of water–for the piped network to run dry. The second is that in many locations, basic water and sanitation interventions do not result in the large public health improvements that many water and sanitation professionals had hoped. As water and sanitation professionals work out the implications of these two realizations on policy and planning for water and sanitation improvements in the Global South, they will require an in-depth knowledge of local housing, water, and sanitation conditions, as well as a nuanced understanding of how households prioritize improvements in housing, water, and sanitation. The chapters in this book about Kathmandu illustrate the types of analyses of local conditions that are needed. Kathmandu holds many lessons for the global community about households’ responses to water scarcity and the management of water and sanitation services in periods of rapid urbanization and climate change. In Focus – a book series that showcases the latest accomplishments in water research. Each book focuses on a specialist area with papers from top experts in the field. It aims to be a vehicle for in-depth understanding and inspire further conversations in the secto

Author : Oliver M. Brandes,POLIS Project on Ecological Governance
Publisher : Polis Project
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556037251253

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At a Watershed by Oliver M. Brandes,POLIS Project on Ecological Governance Pdf

Author : Douglas S. Kenney
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781845424640

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In Search of Sustainable Water Management by Douglas S. Kenney Pdf

This edited volume adeptly analyzes some of the most salient challenges that face water managers and policy makers: balancing private and public sector roles in water allocation, protecting environmental values and indigenous rights to water, avoiding transboundary water conflicts, and integrating the concept of sustainable development within water policies. . . the chapters in this book are comprehensive and well balanced. . . Kenney and his colleagues have put forth an important contribution to western water policy scholarship. They offer concrete ideas for sustainable water management in the western US informed by international cases, while acknowledging the West s unique political and social context. Tanya Heikkila, Journal of the American Water Resources Association Collectively the papers provide concise, insightful coverage of critical water problems in the US and carefully integrate relevant lessons from international water management into these discussions. Highly recommended. B.F. Hope, Choice Water issues in the American West share many similarities with those seen elsewhere in the world as population growth exacerbates longstanding problems of inappropriate water use and management. The contributors to this timely volume examine the universal challenge of sustainable water management to improve the use of water resources already developed and find ways to moderate our growing collective thirst. The volume begins with an exploration of the opportunities, arguments, and mechanisms for transferring lessons between the American West and foreign nations. Succeeding chapters cover individual issues such as: water allocation and the relationship between market mechanisms and government-based approaches, the challenge of environmental protection, the protection of cultural values with a focus on indigenous water rights, the significance of international and interstate rivers in promoting regional conflict and cooperation, and the role of water management in sustainable development. A comprehensive look at one of our most pressing issues, In Search of Sustainable Water Management will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners in the areas of water management, law, policy studies, economics, planning and public administration.

Author : Emma S. Norman,Christina Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317089162

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Negotiating Water Governance by Emma S. Norman,Christina Cook Pdf

Those who control water, hold power. Complicating matters, water is a flow resource; constantly changing states between liquid, solid, and gas, being incorporated into living and non-living things and crossing boundaries of all kinds. As a result, water governance has much to do with the question of boundaries and scale: who is in and who is out of decision-making structures? Which of the many boundaries that water crosses should be used for decision-making related to its governance? Recently, efforts to understand the relationship between water and political boundaries have come to the fore of water governance debates: how and why does water governance fragment across sectors and governmental departments? How can we govern shared waters more effectively? How do politics and power play out in water governance? This book brings together and connects the work of scholars to engage with such questions. The introduction of scalar debates into water governance discussions is a significant advancement of both governance studies and scalar theory: decision-making with respect to water is often, implicitly, a decision about scale and its related politics. When water managers or scholars explore municipal water service delivery systems, argue that integrated approaches to salmon stewardship are critical to their survival, query the damming of a river to provide power to another region and investigate access to potable water - they are deliberating the politics of scale. Accessible, engaging, and informative, the volume offers an overview and advancement of both scalar and governance studies while examining practical solutions to the challenges of water governance.

Author : Jamie Linton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553394372

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Water as a Social Opportunity by Jamie Linton Pdf

Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen’s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to yield a variety of positive outcomes not just for water, or the economy, but for society more broadly. Contributors consider water issues across Canada from this original perspective, and suggest this concept as a basis for developing a long-overdue national water strategy in Canada.

Author : Raymond L. Ison,David Russell,Philip Wallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : 0980638739

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Adaptive Water Governance and Systemic Thinking for Future NRM by Raymond L. Ison,David Russell,Philip Wallis Pdf

Author : Asanga Gunawansa,Lovleen Bhullar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781781006429

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Water Governance by Asanga Gunawansa,Lovleen Bhullar Pdf

ÔEnsuring that everybody has access to drinking water, sanitation and enough nutritious food, which depends on water to grow it, are prerequisites for a healthy life. Water management is not just about the technical aspects of water supply and sanitation. It is equally about our water governance systems, including policies, regulation and societal perception of water rights. This book presents many helpful examples of how different societies are dealing with these issues and of the performance of public and private sector players in this important arena.Õ Ð Colin Chartres, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka ÔI congratulate the Institute of Water Policy, the two editors and the contributors for a very thoughtful book on urban water governance. Our objective is to deliver sustainable water and sanitation services to our people. This book contains useful lessons on how to achieve that objective.Õ Ð Tommy Koh, Chairman, Governing Council, Asia-Pacific Water Forum This insightful book explores urban water governance challenges in different parts of the world and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of publicly run, privatized, and publicÐprivate partnership managed water facilities. The contributors expertly discuss various types of public and private water governance architectures as well as identifying the trends, challenges, opportunities and the shifts in perceptions with regard to the provision of water supply services. Many chapters are dedicated to analyzing the urban water supply scenarios in selected countries, with specific focus on legal, policy and institutional frameworks. The study reveals that while private sector participation has been largely promoted by multilateral institutions as part of institutional and financial reforms, ultimately governments bear the major responsibility for provision of water supply services either as Ôservice providerÕ or as Ôregulator and policy-makerÕ. Containing a detailed overview and analysis of the global urban water supply sector, this timely compendium will strongly appeal to academics, researchers and university students following water-related courses. Water sector professionals, water regulators and public officers as well as managers and researchers employed by private sector water operators will also find plenty of invaluable information in this important book.

Author : Kjellen, M.,White, M.,Matthews, J.,Mauroner, A.,Timboe, I.,Burchi, S.,Dhot, N.,van Waeyenberge, T.,El Fenni, Y. R.,Lohani, A.,Newton, J.,Imamura, Y.,Miyamoto, M.,Moors, E.,de Oliveira, V. G.,Schmeier, S.,Crespo, C. C.,Gutierrez, M. T.,Welling, R.,Suhardiman, Diana,Hada, R.,Saji, M.,Jimenez, A.,Lymer, B. L.,Saikia, P.,Mathews, R.,Bernardini, F.,Koeppel, S.,Aureli, A.,Resende, T. C.,Avellan, T.,Hahn, A.,Kirschke, S. J.,Perera, D.,Loeffen, A.,Turner, R.,Pories, L.,Aldaco-Manner, L.,Daher, B.,Willemart, S.,Schillinger, J.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Water governance for resilience to climate change by Kjellen, M.,White, M.,Matthews, J.,Mauroner, A.,Timboe, I.,Burchi, S.,Dhot, N.,van Waeyenberge, T.,El Fenni, Y. R.,Lohani, A.,Newton, J.,Imamura, Y.,Miyamoto, M.,Moors, E.,de Oliveira, V. G.,Schmeier, S.,Crespo, C. C.,Gutierrez, M. T.,Welling, R.,Suhardiman, Diana,Hada, R.,Saji, M.,Jimenez, A.,Lymer, B. L.,Saikia, P.,Mathews, R.,Bernardini, F.,Koeppel, S.,Aureli, A.,Resende, T. C.,Avellan, T.,Hahn, A.,Kirschke, S. J.,Perera, D.,Loeffen, A.,Turner, R.,Pories, L.,Aldaco-Manner, L.,Daher, B.,Willemart, S.,Schillinger, J. Pdf

In UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP); UN-Water. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020: water and climate change. Paris, France: UNESCO

Author : Amarjit Singh,Dipankar Saha,Avinash C. Tyagi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811327001

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Water Governance: Challenges and Prospects by Amarjit Singh,Dipankar Saha,Avinash C. Tyagi Pdf

The book is the first of its kind to deal with almost the entire swath of water resources assessment, development and sustainable management. The idea of the book crystallized during the long journey of the Editors on various facets of water issues in India and abroad during their extended association, at all levels with the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, as well as International Organizations dealing with water. Currently water-stressed, India is likely to become water scarce in not too distant a future. The global freshwater supply and its sustainable use for human consumption, and conservation of the ecosystem have never come under such a rigorous scrutiny before. The unplanned and reckless exploitation of this precious resource have led to a crisis situation, compounded by a real threat of climate change. This book is, therefore, timely and of particular relevance not only to India but the entire world. The book contains 20 chapters, beside the lead article by the Editors. The chapters are contributed by the eminent professionals, researchers, academicians and civil society representatives having an in-depth understanding of the issues. The contents of the chapters have been chosen to represent all aspects of water. The assessment of water resources using satellite data and in-depth analyses of groundwater sector like, the Aquifer Mapping Programme initiated by Government of India, application of gravity satellite data to assess the resource build up, artificial recharge of aquifers and its contamination, are dealt with by eminent experts. The articles on sustainable management of water through good governance by community participation and involvement of civil society are placed. Flood management both through a basin level approach as well as by building resilience in vulnerable areas is discussed. Other critical issues like water bodies management, constitutional provisions, water governance and financial issues, hydro-power and need of research and development in this sector are also dealt with aptly. In view of emerging crisis and complexities in this sector the future pathways and the paradigm shift that is required in administrative and policy level is also discussed.

Author : N. C. Narayanan,S. Parasuraman,Rajindra Ariyabandu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317559870

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Water Governance and Civil Society Responses in South Asia by N. C. Narayanan,S. Parasuraman,Rajindra Ariyabandu Pdf

This book addresses paradigm shifts in water policy and governance, and examines the role of civil society organizations in influencing public policy, while focusing on social equity and democratic participation. It illustrates a range of interesting developments in policy formulation, donor–state nexus, and interventions by civil society and voluntary organizations. The collection of articles provides a comprehensive and current narrative of the state–society relations in South Asia under neoliberal governance reforms, their implications and key responses with regard to water policies. Using case studies, it closely investigates the impact, effectiveness, drawbacks and challenges faced by voluntary organizations and social movements working at various levels in the water sector. The work will interest researchers and students of development studies, environmental studies, natural resource management, water governance, and public administration, as also water sector professionals, policymakers, civil society activists and governmental and non-governmental organizations.