Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues

ISBN-13: 9780323998758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Trevor M. Letcher

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INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Water, the vital chemical 2. Climate Change and Water 3. Biogeochemical cycling and climate change 4. Global water usage and scarcity 5. Global agricultural water scarcity

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 6 Water quality engineering: Physical, chemical and biological treatment 7. Adaption of Water Resources under Changing Conditions of Climate Change 8. Economics of Water Resources: Planning for an uncertain climate future 9. Filling underground aquifers try 10. Global Potential for Waste Water 11. Nature-based solutions for water resource management in the urban fringe 12.Sustainable Water Management with a focus on climate change 13. Water Purification for developing countries 14. Sea water and reverse osmosis 15. The Food-Energy-Water Nexus in times of climate change 16.Ground water salinity 17.Urban water supplies in developed countries with a focus on climate change 18.Urban water supplies in developing countries, with a focus on climate change

SOCIAL ISSUES 19. Ground water, drought and human activities related to water usage, with a focus on climate change 20.  Environmental impact on global water resources and poverty, with a focus on climate change 21. Dams and Social development 22. Water wars with a focus on climate change 23.  Urban water supplies in developed and undeveloped countries, with a focus on climate change 24.Inequality in access to water sanitation and hygiene: WHO/UNICEF project 25. Water pollution and disease, with a focus on climate change 26.  Agricultural water pollution by farmers with a focus on climate change 27.  Gender Perspective of water use in the context of Climate Change 28.  Global Water, Sanitation and hygiene priorities, with a focus on climate change 29. Waste pollution in oceans and waterways as a result of poor waste disposal

POLITICAL ISSUES 29. The politics of water with a focus on climate change 30.Water - conflict to cooperation 31. Planning water resources for agriculture in developing counties with a focus on climate change 32. Water Diplomacy, with a focus on climate change 33. Human Rights and water with a focus on climate change