Managing Europe's Water Resources

Twenty-first Century Challenges

Chad Staddon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

290 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
9780754673217 (ISBN)

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Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to water management issues from a European perspective. It also includes chapters that treat key water management issues such as: dams, privatization, hydropolitics, and climate change.

Illustrated with case studies which explain key concepts and provide practical examples, this book provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to water management issues from a European perspective. The book begins with a brief history of water management, followed by a consideration of the major frameworks used for managing water in its qualitative and quantitative aspects. Several chapters treat key water management issues, including; dams, privatization, hydropolitics, climate change and finally provides a synoptic treatment of major water management issues across Europe's geographical regions.

Chad Staddon is Senior Lecturer in Geography, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

1: Introduction; 2: Water Regulation at the Global Level; 3: Managing Water in Europe; 4: Managing Scarce Water Resources; 5: Managing Scarce Water Resources; 6: Issues in European Water Management 1; 7: Issues in European Water Management 2; 8: Climate Change, Social Change and Europe's Water Futures; 9: Managing Europe's Water

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-13	9780754673217 / 9780754673217
Zustand	Neuware