Water Resources in Mexico: Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy

ISBN-13: 9783642271304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 530 str.

Ursula Oswald Spring

Opis

Concentrating on water resources in Mexico, which are threatened by steeply rising consumption, pollution and climate change, this book provides a multidisciplinary approach to hydrological processes and their interaction with climate, soil and biota.

Spis treści

Part I: Hydrological processes, management of basins and their interaction with climate, soil and biota.- Part 2: Uses of water, availability and alternative sources.- Part 3: Quality of water, pollution and health.- Part 4: Social effects, conflicts and hydro-diplomacy.- Part 5: Public policy, institutions and legal aspects.

O autorze

Úrsula Oswald Spring, Professor at UNAM-CRIM, xi co; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on sustainability, development, gender, disaster, poverty and colla borates with pea sants.