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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"water resources management"”.
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The Feasibility of Integrated Water Resources Management in Pakistan
… demographic pressures and widespread mismanagement, Pakistan is experiencing a severe water crisis. The mismanagement of Pakistan’s resources is linked to its legacy of colonialism. Failures to reign in the stranglehold of the rural elite or invest in transformative policies is leading to …
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Drought and climate change impacts on water resources: management alternatives
During the last decades water resources are facing severe challenges all over the world and the trends of decreasing precipitations and increasing temperatures in the Mediterranean region intensify this situation. The large climate variability of the region‐ makes drought events appear as a …
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Integrated Water Resources Management and Adaptive Management: Shaping Science and Practice
Complexity of challenges associated with water resources management is increasing due to factors such as climate variability and uncertainty, increased regulatory requirements, changes in planning horizons, and trans-boundary considerations. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Adaptive …
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Marginal and Virtual Water for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Syria
… generally, and Syria in particular, face serious water shortage problems and challenges with water sustainability. Climate change, population growth, and economic development play a major role in decreasing available water resources per capita. This, in turn, has great impact on domestic, …
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Ecologically Based Methods for Multi-Objective Water Resources Management in Taiwan
… physical habitat, spawning, ecological issues, water quality issues, and human values for Northern Taiwan. By using the matrix analysis method, fish community habitat requirements can be identified. The Taiwan Ecohydrology Index System (TEIS) has been developed by adding species habitat and …
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Integrated water resources management in the Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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The Hydroclimatic Characteristics of Nacogdoches, Texas with Implications for Water Resources Management
… third mesothermal, with moderate summer water deficiency, and a temperature effIciency regime equal to a fourth mesothermal climate. There are certain non-random processes contained in the 90-year record of annual precipitation, total number of raindays, maximum and minimum air …
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Critical analysis of the Integrated Water Resources Management legal framework in India
Water security is critical not only for achieving economic growth, social development, and maintaining the ecosystem but also for ensuring political stability in any country. Since declining water security will ultimately constrain economic growth, slow poverty alleviation, and leave many exposed …
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Integrated water resources management under uncertainty: exploring interconnected technological, infrastructural and institutional solutions
… competition for increasingly scarce freshwater resources. Growing urban demands, land-use change, and a changing climate will further exacerbate regional vulnerability to water scarcity. The intensification of these trends creates several challenges for the future planning and management …
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Expert systems for disaster forecasting warning recovery and response in water resources management
… forecasting, warning, recovery, and response in water resources management require the application of knowledge from a diverse range of domains. Identifying the appropriate approach necessitates integrating rules and requirements from these knowledge domains in such a way that the operational …
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Integrating water resources management : analysis of the St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, water market
… is to contribute to the understanding of the water resources management of the St. Thomas water market. By applying the framework for Integrated Water Resources Management, the actual water resources situation in the island was analyzed. This framework requires meeting three criteria: economic …
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Modeling lake ecosystem change within coupled human-natural systems to improve water resources management
… the effects of climate and land use on freshwater-human interactions. I first conducted a literature synthesis and found that slow processes (e.g., cultural change) are underrepresented in CNH-freshwater models relative to fast processes (e.g., daily decision-making), though both fast and …
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Developing A GIS And Hydrological Modeling Approach For Sustainable Water Resources Management In The West Bank -- Palestine
… modeling based approach for sustainable water resources management in the West Bank of Palestine. This water sustainability approach took into consideration the water balance, the social, the economic, the demographic, the environmental, and the institutional components in order to …
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Framework for Assessing Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America: Case Studies of Buenos Aires and São Paulo
… World Banks Latin America and the Caribbean Blue Water Green Cities (BWGC) urban water development initiative that began in 2009. This program attempts to create a comprehensive Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach for policymakers at both local and national levels, improving …
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Participation in policy and practice : conventional and deliberative roles for the public in water resources management and environmental decision-making
… to address the pressing environmental and water management problems in the San Francisco/San Joaquin Bay-Delta, espoused the virtues of new and alternative approaches to dealing with decades-old controversies and conflicting interests. In this thesis, I have compared CALFED's policies and …
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Water resources management & hydroclimatic data analysis in transboundary river basins under the influence of climate variability & water abstraction : Nile river basin
Water is a vital component for developing nations, as it is important for humanconsumption and domestic use, irrigation, and industry. The freshwater availability foreach country should be known or estimated to sustainably manage its available supply,or its share of available water in case of …
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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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Exploring adaptive policy management and evaluation for improved water resources management in the face of uncertainty and complexity in South Africa
Evidence-based water resources policy management is bedevilled by the challenge of uncertainty, with increased risk of policy failure and/or unintended or negative policy outcomes. Moreover, there is increased policy management complexity emerging from related systems' interdependencies …
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Water resources management in Zambia: a case of cumulative impacts associated with copper mining in the Upper Kafue Catchment, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
Water resources management is high on the agenda both locally and globally because of its important role in social, economic and environmental development. For example, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, all United Nations Member States adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals …
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