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  • Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture

    Putting research into use in low income countries

    by Norman Clark, Andy Frost, Ian Maudlin, Andrew Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development for Africa. Controversially, it critiques current international technology development assistance and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Water Ecosystem Services

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Julia Martin-Ortega, Robert C. Ferrier, Iain J. Gordon, Shahbaz Khan ...
    Series series International Hydrology Series
    This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security in the developing world, by integrating scientific knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international law. Empirical ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems

    Proceedings from the UIMP International Course held in Valencia, December 1997

    Edited by Enrique Cabrera, Jorge García-Serra ...
    Series Book 32 - Water Science and Technology Library
    During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems. Because droughts are natural phenomena, water utilities must design and implement drought management plans. This topic was selected for the International Course on Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems, which took place in Valencia, Spain, on 9-12 December ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Use of Economic Instruments in Water Policy

    Insights from International Experience

    Edited by Alexandros Maziotis, Manuel Lago, Gonzalo Delacámara, Carlos M. Gómez, Jaroslav Mysiak ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.g. regulatory) policy instruments and/or can complement them as part of complex policy mixes. The development of a consolidated assessment framework helps clarify (and where ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It contains contributions from sustainability researchers from across the world. ... Read more

    $395.99 USD

  • Water Resources Planning and Management

    Edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Karen Hussey ...
    Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Water Resource Economics

    Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation in India

    by M.G. Chandrakanth ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that India is the largest user of groundwater both for irrigation and for drinking purposes, pumping twice ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Smart Markets for Water Resources

    A Manual for Implementation

    by Mark W. Milke, John F. Raffensperger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Water Resources Management Sustaining Socio-Economic Welfare

    The Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in Asopos River Basin in Greece

    Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Nikos A. Papandreou ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to offer a river-basin management plan which is directly implementable and consistent with the European Union -Water Framework Directive (EU WFD).The contributors, who are leading world experts in their respective fields, develop an integrated water resources management plan for the Asopos river basin in Greece which is economically efficient, socially equitable and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain

    Policy Implications

    by Alberto Garrido, M. Ramón Llamas, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Paula Novo, Roberto Rodríguez-Casado, Maite M. Aldaya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    1.1 General Framework In most arid and semi-arid countries, water resource management is an issue that is both important and controversial. Most water resources experts now acknowledge that water conflicts are not caused by physical scarcity but are mainly due to poor water management (Rosegrant et al. 2002; Benoit and Comeau 2005; Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture 2007; ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta

    by Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region. Much has been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food security for not only for Vietnam but also ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Water Policy in the Philippines

    Issues, Initiatives, and Prospects

    Edited by Agnes C. Rola, Juan M. Pulhin, Rosalie Arcala Hall ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes challenges in the policy and practices of the various water sectors in the Philippines that have led to water conflicts. Such conflicts arise in the nature of rural-urban competition, trans-administrative boundary issues, and inconsistencies between customary and state rules, and even within state rules. Using inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches, and analysing from ... Read more

    $89.99 USD