Thirsty Planet
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84277-243-0 (ISBN)
By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective. She suggests that nature is the source of water and only by making the conservation of nature an absolute priority will we have the water we need for human use in future. It is essential , therefore, to manage water in ways that maintain the water cycle and the ecosystems that support it.
This book looks at the complexity of the problem. It provides a wide array of ideas, information, case studies and ecological knowledge - often from remote corners of the developing world -- that could provide an alternative vision for water use and management at this critical time.
Essential and compelling reading for students on courses related to water resource management and development; water managers and decision makers, and non-specialists with an interest in global water issues.
Constance Hunt is a biologist and environmentalist with considerable experience in international policy and global campaigns for water management and conservation. She is the recipient of awards from the National Research Council, US Department of Agriculture and US Army Corps of Engineers for outstanding work in the field of water resources management.
Introduction
1. Riding the Water Cycle: Water Cycle Dynamics and Freshwater Ecosystems
Water Cycle Mechanics
The Value of the Water Cycle and Freshwater Ecosystems
Conclusion
2. Spiraling Towards a Crisis: Water Use and Growing Shortages
Water's Role in Human Civilization
A Global Water Crisis?
Supply Side Solutions: Stretching the Water Cycle
Conclusion
3. To Feed the World: Food Supply and the Water Cycle
Status and Trends in Global Food Production
Green Revolution Technologies and Their Repercussions
How to Keep Food Growing and Water Flowing
Conclusion
4. A Thirsty Planet: Water Supply and Sanitation in a Water-short world
Water Paucity and Plenty: The Great Divide
Sources of Scarcity
Improving Our Performance
Conclusion
5. When it Rains, it Pours: Water Management for Flood Damage Reduction
The Nature and History of Floods
The Flood Control Concept
Shifts Towards a Holistic Approach to Flood Management
Conclusion
6. Arteries of Commerce: Inland Waterways and the Water Cycle
Building the Water Highways
Effects of Inland Waterway Construction and Operation on the Water Cycle
Navigating Gently
Conclusion
7. A Warmer World: The Interrelationships Between Global Warming and the Water Cycle
The Nature of the Greenhouse Effect
Effects of Global Warming on the Water Cycle, Aquatic Ecosystems and People
Pseudo Solutions
New Generation
Conclusion
8. When the Water Cycle Breaks Down: The Potential for Restoration
Freshwater Ecosystems on the Brink
Protection
Restoration
Conclusion
9. Avenues of Governance: Institutional Options for Protecting the Water Cycle
Binding Agreements: Treaties
Non-binding Agreements
Free Trade and Market Forces
Conclusion
Index
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84277-243-0 / 1842772430 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84277-243-0 / 9781842772430 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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