Coping with Water Deficiency
From Research to Policymaking
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Beschreibung
In line with the Water Framework Directive, this book stresses the need for an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to balance the competing demands on water-domestic, agricultural, industrial, tourism and environmental/ecological- and promote economically efficient, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable water use in selected regions from Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and the developing world. Results from the research projects covered by this book, demonstrate that effective water management tools and decisions-making practices, are needed in order to complement integrated interventions for increasing the availability of supply and/or managing the growing demand for scarce water supplies. Further, the book attempts to bridge the gap between ideas and actions endorsed at the research-oriented environmental debate, and their translation into policy making structures and programs in developed and developing countries.
Reports the culmination of the results of the ARID cluster of projects which examine water scarcity and demand in arid and semi-arid regions in the Mediterranean and Southern European Countries Also reports recent examples of methods for the identification of water management issues and the proposed mitigation measures in developing countries Covers a wide spectrum of topics important to water resources management, including research tools for the characterization of water stress, policy proposals for its alleviation, tools and methods for decision making, water policies and pricing schemes, stakeholder participation and social issues
Autor*in
Phoebe Koundouri
Themen in »Coping with Water Deficiency«
Environmental Economics and Management Integrated Water Resource Management Policy Making Water Economics and Management Water Framework Directive Water Resources Water resource management Water resources management development water policy water quality and water pollution