Water for the Americas (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Opportunities
Redaktion: Garrido, Alberto; Shechter, Mordechai

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The chapters in this volume are peer reviewed editions of the papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15-17, 2010. The theme for Forum VII was Water for the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317685647
• Artikelnr.: 49353576

Autorenporträt

Alberto Garrido is a Professor of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics at the Technical University of Madrid Spain. Mordechai Shechter is a Dean at the School of Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzilya, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction and Overview Part II. Water Scarcity
in the Americas 2. Water Scarcity in the Americas: Common Challenges - A
Northern Perspective 3. Water Scarcity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Myths and Reality Part III . Serving the unserved 4. Supply and sanitation:
serving the urban unserved 5. Supply and Sanitation: How Are the Unserved
to Be Served? Serving the Rural Unserved Part IV. Transboundary issues 6.
The La Plata river basin 7. Water Governance in the Mackenzie River Basin,
Canada 8. The unintentional and intentional recharge of aquifers in the
Tula and the Mexico Valleys: The Megalopolis needs Mega solutions Part V.
Indigenous cultures and rights 9. The Role of Indigenous Claims to Water
and Indigenous Knowledge 10. Northern voices, Northern waters: traditional
knowledge and water policy development in the northwest territories Part
VI. Institutional innovations: learning from Asia 11. Institutional
response as an adaptation to water scarcity 12. Innovations in Agricultural
Groundwater Management: Examples from India Part VII. Conclusions