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The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook.
The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Earthscan,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term implications of management actions make the problems even more difficult. This book explains the benefits, outcomes and lessons learned from adaptive water management (AWM). |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849770194 1849770190 9781134039500 1134039506 9781849774598 1849774595 |