Water Resources

An Integrated Approach
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-60281-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1036 g

The world faces huge challenges for water as population continues to grow, as emerging economies develop and as climate change alters the global and local water cycle. There are major questions to be answered about how we supply water in a sustainable and safe manner to fulfil our needs, while at the same time protecting vulnerable ecosystems from disaster.
Water Resources: An Integrated Approach provides students with a comprehensive overview of both natural and socio-economic processes associated with water. The book contains chapters written by 20 specialist contributors, providing expert depth of coverage to topics. The text guides the reader through the topic of water starting with its unique properties and moving through environmental processes and human impacts upon them including the changing water cycle, water movement in river basins, water quality, groundwater and aquatic ecosystems. The book then covers management strategies for water resources, water treatment and re-use, and the role of water in human health before covering water economics and water conflict. The text concludes with a chapter that examines new concepts such as virtual water that help us understand current and future water resource use and availability across interconnected local and global scales.
This book provides a novel interdisciplinary approach to water in a changing world, from an environmental change perspective and inter-related social, political and economic dimensions. It includes global examples from both the developing and developed world. Each chapter is supplemented with boxed case studies, end of chapter questions, and further reading, as well as a glossary of terms. The text is richly illustrated throughout with over 150 full colour diagrams and photos.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holden, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Water Fundamentals Jospeh Holden 2. The Changing Water Cycle Stephen Sitch and Frances Drake 3. River Basin HydrologyJoseph Holden 4. Surface Water QualityPippa J. Chapman, Paul Kay, Gordon Mitchell and Colin Pritts 5. Groundwater Ared West and Noelle Odling 6. Aquatic EcosystemsLee E. Brown, Colin S. Pritt and Alison M. Dunn 7. Water Demand Planning and Management Adrian T. McDonald and Gordon Mitchell 8. Water and HealthRebecca J. Slack 9. Potable Water and Wastewater Treatment Nigel J. Horan 10. Water Economics Sonja S. Teelucksingh, Nesha Beharry-Borg and Dabo Guan 11. Water Conflict, Law and GovernanceKitriphar Tongper and Anamika Barua12. The Future of Water: Water Footprints and Virtual Water Martin Tillotson, Megan Beresford, Dabo Guan and Joseph Holden

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Joseph Holden holds the Chair of Physical Geography at the University of Leeds. He is Head of water@leeds, the largest interdisciplinary water research centre in the UK and he is also Director of Research for the School of Geography.