The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variations in river flow, increased occurrence of droughts and floods, and sea level rise in densely populated coastal areas. Such phenomena impact both urban and rural communities in developed, emerging, and developing countries.
Taking a systems approach, this book analyzes evidence from 26 countries and identifies common barriers and bridges for local adaptation to climate change through water resources management. It includes a global set of case...
The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variatio...
This book captures the complex dimensions of groundwater governance, and is written by a team of leading experts worldwide with diverging backgrounds. It provides crucial and topical information for enhancing and safeguarding the huge benefits accruing from groundwater to humanity, and for preventing degradation of groundwater resources and of the interconnected ecosystems and environment. It also focuses on the increasingly important linkages between groundwater and other resources and sectors, and between local groundwater systems and phenomena or action at the international or even global...
This book captures the complex dimensions of groundwater governance, and is written by a team of leading experts worldwide with diverging backgrounds....
