The Rehabilitation of the Delta of the Senegal River in Mauritania

The Rehabilitation of the Delta of the Senegal River in Mauritania

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  • Author: Olivier Hamerlynck
  • Publisher: IUCN
  • ISBN: 9782831707518
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : fr
  • Pages : 98


Handbook of Catchment Management

Handbook of Catchment Management

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  • Author: Robert C. Ferrier
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 9781444307689
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 560

This book addresses the fundamental requirement for aninterdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing andprotecting water resources that crucially includes anunderstanding of land use and its management. In thisapproach the hydrological cycle links mountains to the sea, andecosystems in rivers, groundwaters, lakes, wetlands, estuaries andcoasts forming an essential continuum directly influenced by humanactivity. The book provides a synthesis of current and future thinking incatchment management, and shows how the specific problems thatarise in water use policy can be addressed within the context of anintegrated approach to management. The book is written for advancedstudents, researchers, fellow academics and water sectorprofessionals such as planners and regulators. The intention is tohighlight examples and case studies that have resonance not onlywithin natural sciences and engineering but with academicsin other fields such as socio-economics, law and policy.


River Culture

River Culture

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  • Author: UNESCO
  • Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
  • ISBN: 9231005405
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 893


Ecological restoration for protected areas: principles, guidelines and best practices

Ecological restoration for protected areas: principles, guidelines and best practices

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  • Author:
  • Publisher: IUCN
  • ISBN: 2831715334
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 133


The Hydropolitics of Africa

The Hydropolitics of Africa

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  • Author: Raj Bardouille
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443802271
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

Water is both an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in contemporary Africa. And we begin to learn that far distant processes of consumption and pollution can have their impact on the water systems of Africa: global warming produced by the material culture of the first world threatens the weather systems and very survival of developing countries. In this context, this volume – the product of an expert meeting at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development – traces and tracks the dynamics of the contemporary hydropolitics of Africa. The volume contains a variety of approaches to the study of the organisation of water within Africa ranging from technical essays on water borne diseases, through institutional analyses of the legal and political arrangements around the distribution of water to social policy analyses of the unmet demand for water amongst Africa’s poor. Taken as a whole, the volume provides the reader with a useful reference work on the contemporary hydropolitics of Africa whilst simultaneously providing a lively introduction to a critical and much neglected area of African development policy.


The Future of Large Dams

The Future of Large Dams

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  • Author: Thayer Ted Scudder
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1136547754
  • Category : Law
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 408

Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority. Employing the Commission's Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts the 'middle way' forward by examining the impacts of large dams on ecosystems, societies and political economies. He also analyses the structure of the decision-making process for water resource development and tackles the highly contentious issue of dam-induced resettlement, illuminated by a statistical analysis of 50 cases.


Ecohydrology

Ecohydrology

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  • Author: David M. Harper
  • Publisher: CABI
  • ISBN: 1845933702
  • Category : Eavesdropping
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 401

Ecohydrology is a sub-discipline which links elements of ecology with hydrology at various points in the water cycle. This book focuses on larger scales of ecohydrology, emphasising the use of this tool in striving towards the goal of sustainable water management.


Living on the Edge

Living on the Edge

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  • Author: Le Zwarts
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004278133
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 564

'Living on the Edge' examines the function of the Sahel region of Africa as an important wintering area for long-distance migrant birds. It describes the challenges the birds have to cope with – climate change, of course, and rapid man-made habitat changes related to deforestation, irrigation and reclamation of wetlands. How have all these changes affected the birds, and have birds adapted to these changes? Can we explain the changing numbers of breeding birds in Europe by changes in the Sahel, or vice versa?


Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

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  • Author: Robert Fisher
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136562184
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 161

Offers an overview of the issues and a conceptual framework for addressing poverty reduction in the context of conservation, and conservation in the context of poverty reduction. This book is suitable for professionals working in the field as well as to students across the fields of conservation, development and sustainability.


Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

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  • Publisher: Earthscan
  • ISBN: 1844076350
  • Category : Conservation of natural resources
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 161

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.