Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands (eBook, ePUB)

Challenge and Response
Redaktion: Schmandt, Jurgen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limari, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, Sao Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations. The authors suggest how to respond to these challenges without loss of food production, drinking water, or environmental health. The analysis of the political, hydrological, and environmental conditions within each basin gives policymakers, engineers, and researchers interested in the water/sustainability nexus a better understanding of engineered rivers in arid lands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108266253
• Artikelnr.: 66177815

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Introduction: Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid
Lands Jurgen Schmandt; Part I. Challenge: 2. Global Climate Change and the
Rivers Gerald R. North; 3. Reservoirs: Design, Functions, Challenges George
H. Ward; 4. Depletion of Groundwater: the Surface-Groundwater Connection
Stephanie Glenn; 5. Endangered Food Security Olcay Unver, Eduardo Mansur
and Melvyn Kay; 6. Declining Environmental Flows Stephanie Glenn and R.
James Lester; Part II. Engineered Rivers: Past, Present and Future: 7. The
Nile River Basin Muhammad Khalifa, Sephra Thomas and Lars Ribbe; 8. The
Euphrates-Tigris River Basin Aysegül Kibaroglu; 9. The Yellow River Basin
James E. Nickum and Jia Shaofeng; 10. The Murray-Darling River Basin Daniel
Connell; 11. The São Francisco River Basin Antonio R. Magalhães, Eduardo
Sávio and P. R. Martins; 12. The Limarí River Basin Alexandra Nauditt,
Justyna Sycz and Lars Ribbe; 13. The Colorado River Basin Douglas S.
Kenney, Michael Cohen, John Berggren and Regina M. Buono; 14. The Rio
Grande/Río Bravo River Basin George H. Ward and Jurgen Schmandt; 15. The
Jucar River Basin Jose Albiac, M. T. Kahil and Encarna Esteban; Part IV.
Response: 16. River Basin Management and Irrigation François Molle; 17.
'Intelligent' Water Transfers Eduardo Sávio, P. R. Martins, Antonio
Magalhães and James E. Nickum; 18. Better Basin Management with Stakeholder
Participation Jurgen Schmandt and Aysegül Kibaroglu; Part V. Conclusion:
19. Conclusion: What We Found and What We Recommend Aysegül Kibaroglu,
Jurgen Schmandt and George H. Ward; Index.