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Grow in Concert with Nature : Sustaining East Asia's Water Resources Management Through Green Water Defense.
Water scarcity is increasingly becoming a threat to water security in different countries or areas of East Asia, driven by water over-withdrawal and pollution, and aggravated by climate change and variability. The?Green Water Defense in East Asia? study, as part of the driver for green growth in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
World Bank Publications,
2012.
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| Colección: | World Bank studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; A Summary Note for Policy Makers; Figures; Figure E.1: Projected Global Water Scarcity in 2025; Figure E.2: Key GWD Approaches to Water Resources Management; Figure E.3: Conceptual Framework of GWD; 1. Introduction; Water Scarcity and Climate Change; Objectives of the Study; Methodology; 2. Status of Water Resources in East Asia; Topography and Climate; Figure 2.1: Map of East Asia Climates; Observed Rainfall Trends; Impacts of Climate Change; Figure 2.2: Average Seasonal Rainfall across the Asia/Pacific Region (1979-1995).
- Figure 2.3: Change in Annual Total Rainfall for ChinaKey Water Resources Management Issues in East Asia; Figure 2.4: Percentage Change in Annual Average Rainfall by 2100 from 1960-1990 Baseline Climate, Averaged over 21 CMIP3 Models for China; Figure 2.5: Projected Global Water Scarcity in 2025; 3. Defining the Green Water Defense Approach; Working Definition; Figure 3.1: Key GWD Approaches to Water Resources Management; Managing Water Scarcity through GWD; Figure 3.2: GWD Overall Conceptual Framework; Figure 3.3: Water Scarcity Management Conceptual Framework; Boxes.
- Box 3.1: Water Planning in AustraliaA Menu of GWD Measures for Adaptive Water Management; Tables; Table 3.1: A Menu of GWD Measures at the River Basin Level; Table 3.2: A Menu of GWD Measures at the Agricultural Water System Level; Table 3.3: A Menu of GWD Measures at the Urban (City) System Level; 4. Selected Country Case Studies; Australia: The Cases of Victoria and Sydney; Box 4.1: Victoria's Water Planning Framework; Figure 4.1.1: Water Plan Review Process; Figure 4.1: Victoria's Water Entitlement Framework: Hierarchy of Water Rights; Box 4.2: Water-Sharing Rules.
- Table 4.2.1: Sample of a Water Sharing PlanBox 4.3: Victorian (Australia) Water Register; Figure 4.3.1: Screenshot of the Victorian Water Register; Box 4.4: Northern Victoria Irrigation Renewal Project (NVIRP): Modernizing the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District; Figure 4.2: Change in Volume of Water Allocation Trade in Northern Victoria (1991-2009); Figure 4.3: Movement of Water Shares across the Southern Murray Darling Basin; Figure 4.4: Fluctuating Reservoir Storage in Sydney during the Past Decade (1998-2010); Figure 4.5: Demand Management Impact on Reducing Total Demand.
- Israel: National LevelFigure 4.6: Irrigation Technology Improvement in Israel: Micro-Irrigation (Left) and Green House (Right); Spain: River Basin Level; Figure 4.7: Annual Freshwater Withdrawals for Agriculture (% of Total Withdrawal) in Spain; Northern China: River Basin, Local Government and Irrigation System Levels; Figure 4.8: Cost-Effectiveness of Different Measures and their Incremental Potential for Water Saving and Augmentation; Table 4.1: Water Consumption in Ningxia, 2005-2010; Table 4.2: Unit Water Consumption in Ningxia, 2005-2010; 5. General Conclusions and Recommendations.