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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Freshwater management"”.
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How has contamination to water supply altered Havelock North business owners’ perspectives on water? : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master Water Resource Management at Lincoln University and Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management
Safe drinking water is essential to public health. In August 2016 an outbreak of gastroenteritis in Havelock North, New Zealand, shook the public’s trust in the water supply service. Over 5,500 of the town’s 14,000 residents were estimated to have fallen ill with campylobacteriosis, and 45 people …
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Water resources management in the eastern Caribbean : a study of the two small island developing states, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados
Water resource management is currently an issue of major significance at a global level both in terms of policy-making and academia. Small island states represent a special group, with Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, even more particular cases. Development, industrialisation, tourism and resource …
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Evaluación integradora de políticas de agua: modelado y simulación con sociedades artificiales de agentes
… dealing with the multidimensional complexity of freshwater management in emergent metropolitan areas. In particular, we integrate and adapt different social submodels –models of urban dynamics, water consumption, and technological and opinion diffusion– in an agent based model that is, in turn, …
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International water law and the quest for common security
The world’s freshwater supplies are squeezed by rapidly increasing demand, the impacts of global climate change and unsustainable management. Given the fact that water is the gossamer linking various other security issues – e.g., energy, food and environment – it seems obvious that ‘business as …
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Predicting phytoplankton community dynamics: understanding water quality responses to global change
… due to global change. In particular, many freshwater phytoplankton communities are experiencing multiple global change stressors, altering phytoplankton community composition, biomass, and spatial distribution. I used multiple approaches to characterize the interactions between spatial …
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The Value of Irrigation Water in New Zealand
… this thesis is to examine issues pertaining to freshwater quantity in New Zealand agriculture. Currently, freshwater is managed under the Resource Management Act (1991) and the allocation system is essentially on a “first-come first-served” basis – whoever gains access to water rights first …
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Eco-hydro-morphodynamics and ecosystem services of near-natural river corridors
… fundamental references for river conservation, management, and restration, offering the opportunity to investigate processes under minimal anthropic disturbances. However, in the Anthropocene large near-natural rivers are rare gems in Europe an worldwide, and knowledge of their dynamics and …
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IoT and machine learning approach for the determination of optimal freshwater exchange rate in aquaponics
… timing, demonstrating how optimised water management and environmental monitoring can directly influence plant productivity in aquaponics systems. While standard coupled aquaponics management relies on manual monitoring and empirical adjustments of water exchange, these approaches are often …
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Assessing values for multiple and conflicting uses of freshwater in the Canterbury region
Freshwater resource management can be challenging as policy makers need to consider the well-being from many uses that includes environmental, social, financial and cultural elements. Generally, there is a lack of information of how to balance these different well-being and what is the related …
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Nature, Nurture and Values in Development: Water as a Resource in Kazakhstan
… used concepts – the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the Water-Food-Energy and Ecosystem Nexus), they are designed for policy makers to select relevant elements in keeping with the models, thereby relegating the local understanding of the key concept to the background. This way …
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Restoring freshwater quality: an integrated environmental, economic and ecosystem services assessment of reducing nutrient loads to Lake Rotorua
The management of freshwater resources is a global concern as anthropogenic pressures on these resources have intensified. A decline in the quantity and quality of freshwater urgently requires concerted restoration actions to reverse the decline. Restoration of lakes is impacted by complex …