Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368045237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Author: Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368045237
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Sticks and carrots
Author: Closas, AlvarPublisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN: 9290908599
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Project Management and Engineering Research
Author: José Luis Ayuso MuñozPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319518593
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book gathers the best papers presented at the 19th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, which was held in Granada, Spain in July 2015. It covers a range of project management and engineering contexts, including: civil engineering and urban planning, product and process engineering, environmental engineering, energy efficiency and renewable energies, rural development, information and communication technologies, safety, labour risks and ergonomics, and training in project engineering. Project management and engineering is taking on increasing importance as projects continue to grow in size, more stakeholders become involved, and environmental, organisational and technological issues become more complex. As such, this book offers a valuable resource for all professionals seeking the latest material on the changing face of project management.
Networks and Institutions in Natural Resource Management
Author: Y. RydinPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1847200184
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Managing natural resources sustainably is a complex task that demands the involvement of many different stakeholders. Network arrangements are used to try and achieve such sustainable management. This book assesses the practice of such networks using case studies of landscape, habitat and water management from England, Sweden, Spain and Zimbabwe.
Groundwater Intensive Use
Author: Andrés SahuquilloPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780415364447
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Intensive use of groundwater has resolved the demand for drinking water and, through irrigation, has contributed to the eradication of malnourishment in many developing countries. The spectacular worldwide increase in groundwater use in the last decades, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, has been a silent revolution carried out by millions of small farmers. In some instances, groundwater abstraction has caused problems of quality degradation, excessive drawdown of groundwater levels, land subsidence, reduction of spring and baseflows or degradation of groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Most of these problems could be anticipated, mitigated, or even avoided with more active water agencies, adequate regulations and users’ participation in management. Groundwater Intensive Use contains a selection of papers presented at a symposium held in December 2002 in Valencia, Spain. It constitutes a step forward in creating a greater worldwide awareness of the relevance of groundwater in water resources policy. The book presents new ideas and accounts of recent advances in technical, economic, legal, administrative and political issues. It addresses groundwater development to ecosystems sustainability, through different or complementary approaches. A wide series of case studies from North and South America, Europe, South Asia and North and Sub-Saharan Africa cover the various issues. These case studies represent countries with a wide diversity of social circumstances, from areas in which development is emerging, to communities with a long history of successful groundwater use.
Intensive Use of Groundwater:
Author: M. Ramon LlamasPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9789058093905
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This text is written by a number of authors from different countries and disciplines, affording the reader an invaluable and unbiased perspective on the subject of intensive groundwater development. Based on information gathered from the experience of many countries over the last decades, the text aims to present a clear discussion on the conventional hydrogeological aspects of intensive groundwater use, along with the ecological, legal, institutional, economic and social challenges. Divided into two main sections, the first group of authors put forward the positive and negative aspects of intensive groundwater use, whilst a second group provide an overview of the situation specific countries face as a consequence of this phenomenon. Fully revised and up-to-date, Groundwater Intensive Use makes a significant number of discoveries in a subject area that is topical in today's climate.
Agricultural Use of Groundwater
Author: Cesare DosiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401597812
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways. Conservation and better management of this invisible resource should be a key ingredient of sustainable water policies. This is especially true in areas, such as many Mediterranean regions, which are already exposed to scarcity problems and which are likely to experience increasing competition between freshwater uses and users. Agriculture is an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstractions, but also in terms of generation and release of pollutants. Agricultural policies, traditionally directed towards other objectives, are beginning to pay more attention to environmental considerations. However more effective initiatives are required to reduce the pressure upon groundwater resources and to achieve a better integration between agricultural and environmental policies. This book has been developed from three workshops held as part of the EU Concerted Action SAGA, "Sustainable Agricultural Use of Aquifers in Southern Europe: Integration between Agricultural and Water Management Policies" (FAIR5-CT97-3673). The Concerted Action and the workshops brought together researchers working in different but complementary fields, in order to get a picture of the state-of-the art about interlinkages between agriculture and groundwater, as well a critical review of alternative regulatory approaches and policy instruments aimed at improving groundwater management.
CAP Regimes and the European Countryside
Author: Floor BrouwerPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851999586
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book reviews assessments on the environmental effects of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and assesses the contribution of agricultural policy to environmental quality in the EU. It focuses on the role of agricultural policy in reducing harmful effects and/or creating benefits to the physical environment, landscape and nature. Emphasis is given to comparative studies, rather than any limited to one country. The commodity regimes of the CAP ' e.g. the beef, wine and olive oil regimes ' are considered in detail.
ABISMOS
Author: Maria Martha CalvoPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493176536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Resumen de la novela «Abismos». María Martha Calvo Parecería que la vida se ha empeñado en empujarlas hasta el mismo borde, pero su inquebrantable unión salva, en múltiples ocasiones, de caer en las profundidades del abismo a las hermanas Queta y Tula. El hábito de tomarse de las manos —desarrollado desde el vientre materno— y comunicarse con palabras solo conocidas por ellas les proporciona la fuerza necesaria para enfrentar las situaciones angustiosas, poniendo una vez más en evidencia el conocido vínculo que une a los mellizos. Las aventuras —y desventuras— de Queta y Tula ofrecen al lector una gira turística por diferentes localidades del Perú, España y Argentina, logrando esta novela su propósito de entretener al mismo tiempo que proporcionar información.
Revista de estudios hispánicos
Author: University of Alabama. Department of Romance LanguagesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Hispanic
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
