Water Resources : Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts and Necessities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borzog-Haddad, Omid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development.

Water-supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.) ill

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : IWA Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Nowadays, novel water resources management strategies have been developed and applied by borrowing new concepts to overcome the water shortage crisis and balance the distribution of water resources. Therefore, this book has been categorized in four main sections as follows. 1- Perspective, which consists of Climate change, New water resources, Inter-basin water transfer, Nanotechnology, Best management practices by low impact development strategies, Land use, Land planning, and Overland production chapters. 2- Challenges, which consists of Water and sustainable development and Comprehensive and integrated water management chapters. 3- Concepts, which consists of Virtual water, Water footprint, and Water-Food-Energy-Environment nexus chapters, and 4- Necessities which consists of Water security, Food security, Inactive (passive) defense, Water conflicts and water war, Forensic engineering, and Citizen sciences chapters. It should be added that all of these concepts have been integrated into this unique reference, which can help students, academics and practitioners professors who are interested to know more about the new concepts in water resources.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: New water resources technologies

Chapter 2: Inter-basin water transfer

Chapter 3: Nanotechnology application in water resource management

Chapter 4: Stormwater management by low impact development practices

Chapter 5: Land use planning and overseas production

Chapter 6: Water and sustainable development

Chapter 7: Comprehensive integrated water management

Chapter 8: Virtual water

Chapter 9: Water footprint

Chapter 10: The water, food and energy nexus

Chapter 11: Water security

Chapter 12: Food security from a water perspective

Chapter 13: Passive defense in water resources

Chapter 14: Forensic engineering

Chapter 15: Citizen science

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

1499391857