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La gestión del agua en España y California

Author : Pedro Arrojo Agudo
Publisher : Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua
ISBN 13 : 848894909X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book La gestión del agua en España y California written by Pedro Arrojo Agudo and published by Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California presenta respecto a España notables paralelismos y similitudes, tanto en parámetros geoclimáticos como incluso en muchos aspectos de su historia hidráulica o en lo referente a niveles de regulación y disponibilidad de caudales. Sin embargo, el profundo giro operado desde finales de los setenta en la política hidráulica norteamericana ha generado un nuevo modelo de planificación y gestión del agua que contrasta fuertemente con las concepciones e inercias desgraciadamente vigentes todavía en nuestro país. En California prevalece el valor ambiental y ecológico del agua. De una estrategia de grandes obras para sustanciar una política de oferta, se ha pasado a una estrategia de conservación del recurso y de gestión de la demanda. En nuestro país la necesidad de un giro histórico similar que permita superar el obsoleto estructuralismo hidráulico, vigente hasta hoy, es ya inaplazable. En este sentido, la experiencia californiana puede ser de gran utilidad. En el presente libro, Pedro Arrojo, profesor hemérito del Departamento de Análisis Económico de la Universidad de Zaragoza, aprovechando los conocimientos adquiridos fundamentalmente durante su estancia en la Universidad de California-Davis como profesor invitado (curso 94-95), analiza la experiencia californiana en contraste con la realidad y las concepciones vigentes en España. Por otro lado, José Manuel Naredo, director del programa “Economía y Naturaleza” de la Fundación Argentaria, y quizás el investigador español más prestigioso en el área de la economía ecológica, valora las perspectivas de este necesario giro en la gestión y planificación hidrológica desde su innovador y sugestivo enfoque económico-ecológico.

Water Policy in Spain

Author : Alberto Garrido
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203866029
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Water Policy in Spain written by Alberto Garrido and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the modern Spanish State was formed in the mid Fifteenth Century, historical records show that water works, statues, and the utilization of water dates back to centuries BC. As a semi-arid country, the effort to control, store and assure water supplies to cities and fields is present in numerous historical and political landmarks.Water polic

Managing Water Resources in a Time of Global Change

Author : Alberto Garrido
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135968888
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Managing Water Resources in a Time of Global Change written by Alberto Garrido and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global change possesses serious challenges for water managers and scientists. In mountain areas, where water supplies for half of the world population originate, climate and hydrologic models are still subject to considerable uncertainty. And yet, critical decisions have to be taken to ensure adequate and safe water supplies to billions of people, millions of farmers and industries, without further deteriorating rivers and water bodies. While global warming is known to cause glaciers’ retreat and reduced snow packs around the world, it is not clear that mountain discharge will be lower. What is widely recognised is that water management must be adapted to accommodate significant regime changes. However, this inevitably involves managing transboundary rivers, adding further complexity to putting principles in practice. This book takes global warming and the importance of mountain areas in world water resources as the starting point. First, it provides detailed reviews of the processes going on in several rivers systems and world regions in Europe (Rhône and Ebro), North America (Canadian Rockies, Western US and Mexico), the Middle East (Jordan), Africa (Tunisia, Kenya and South Africa). These contexts provide case studies and examples that show the difficulties and potential for adaptation to global change. Land-use, economics, numerous modeling approaches are some of the cross-cutting issues covered in the chapters. The volume also includes the views of water practitioners, with two chapters authored by members of the US-Canada International Joint Commission, an industrialist from Western Canada and an environmental leader in Spain. By combining a rich set of contexts and approaches, the volume succeeds in offering a view of the global challenges faced by water agencies, international donors and researchers around the world. A case is made in some chapters to seek adaptive strategies rather than trying to reduce or control resources variability. This requires factoring in land-use, social and economic aspects, especially in developing countries. Another conclusion is that complex problems can and must be posed and negotiated with the help of models, mapping techniques and science-based facts. However complex these may be, there are ways to translate them to easily interpretable and visualisations of alternative scenarios and courses of action. This book provides numerous examples of the potential of such approaches to draft environmental programmes solve transboundary disputes and reduce the economic consequences of droughts and climate instability.

The Role of Government in Water Markets

Author : Vanessa Casado-Perez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317222709
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Role of Government in Water Markets written by Vanessa Casado-Perez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While water is an increasingly scarce resource, most existing methods to allocate it are neither economically nor environmentally efficient. In these circumstances, water markets offer developed countries a form of regulatory response capable of overcoming many of the shortcomings of current water management. The debate on water markets is, however, a polarized one. This is mostly a result of the misunderstanding of the roles played by governments in water markets. Proponents mistakenly portrayed them as leaving governments, for the most part, out of the picture. Opponents, in turn, understand commodification of water and administration by public agencies as incompatible. Casado Pérez argues that both sides of the debate overlook that water markets require a deeper and more varied governmental intervention than markets for other goods. Drawing on economic theories of regulation based on market failure, she explains the different roles governments should play to ensure a well-functioning water market, and concludes that only the visible hand of governments can ensure the success of water markets. Casado Pérez proves her case by examining case studies of California and Spain to assess the success of their water markets. She explores why water markets were more extensively institutionalized in California than in Spain in the first ten years since their introduction and how the role of governments in each case study impacted water market operation. This unique analysis of governmental roles in water markets, alongside qualitative studies of California and Spain, offers valuable guidance to understand environmental markets and to face the challenges presented by water management in regions with periodical droughts.

Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

Author : Leila M. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135125058
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South written by Leila M. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally—scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked to scarcity and crisis take hold, and become entrenched in policy and practice. The book also investigates ideas of marketization and privatization, increasingly prominent features of water governance throughout the global South, with particular attention to the varied implementation and effects of these governance practices. The final section of the volume analyzes participatory water governance, querying the disconnects between global discourses and local realities, particularly as they intersect with the other themes of interest to the volume. Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates, and policy makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world.

Water Crisis: Myth or Reality?

Author : Peter P. Rogers
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439834275
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Water Crisis: Myth or Reality? written by Peter P. Rogers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always considered a classic renewable resource, after a hundred thousand years of farming and industry, rivers in many parts of the world are running dry and the groundwater is over pumped. In addition, the rate at which water sources are becoming contaminated with waste from humans, industry, and agriculture is truly alarming. Do these factors add up to a water crisis that merits drastic, large-scale action? Not necessarily say the editors of Water Crisis: Myth or Reality. They challenge this pessimism, concluding that while there are serious global water issues to be considered, the concept of a global water crisis is largely overstated. The book examines the issues and explores which conditions are permanent and unchangeable and which are remediable and changeable. The chapters explore when and where severe regional and local water problems occur and make suggestions about how they may be solved in a deliberate, non-crisis manner. The book covers recent breakthroughs in desalination technologies, the eco-sanitation revolution, international trade in agricultural products, methods of governance and negotiation in water allocation, and pricing and devolution of property rights and the roles they play in solving water issues. The editors, along with a panel of world-renowned experts, suggest that water issues can be solved over the next few decades using new technologies and processes.

Losing Paradise

Author : Tammo Steenhuis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317103394
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Losing Paradise written by Tammo Steenhuis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a uniquely interdisciplinary view of the Eastern Mediterranean region's water problems, this book considers some of the technical and regulatory solutions being proposed or implemented to solve the difficulties of diminished or polluted water supplies. Stressing the importance of traditional and historical cultural understanding in addressing the water crisis, the authors demonstrate that what is required is an integrated legal, social and scientific management system appropriate to each country's stage of development and their cultural heritage. Using case studies from Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Egypt, Greece, Jordan and Cyprus, the authors focus on the urgency of the present crisis faced by each country and the need for cooperation. The suggested solutions also serve as a paradigm for the rest of the world as it faces similar issues of water shortage.

Liquid Power

Author : Erik Swyngedouw
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262029030
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Liquid Power written by Erik Swyngedouw and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power. In this book, Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of modernization and development. Using the experience of Spain as a lens to view the interplay of modernity and environmental transformation, Swyngedouw shows that every political project is also an environmental project. In 1898, Spain lost its last overseas colony, triggering a period of post-imperialist turmoil still referred to as El Disastre. Turning inward, the nation embarked on “regeneration” and modernization. Water played a central role in this; during a turbulent period from the twentieth century into the twenty-first—through the Franco years and into the new era of liberal democracy—Spain's waterscapes were completely transformed, with large-scale projects that ranged from dam construction to irrigation to desalinization. Swyngedouw describes the contested political-ecological process that marked this transformation, showing that the Spain's diverse and contested paths to modernization were predicated on particular trajectories of environmental transformation. After laying out his theoretical perspectives, Swyngedouw analyzes three periods of Spain's political-ecological modernization: the aspirations and stalled modernization of the early twentieth century; the accelerated efforts under the authoritarian Franco regime—which included six hundred dams, expanded hydroelectricity, and massive irrigation; and the changing hydro-social landscape under social democracy. Offering an innovative perspective on the relationship of nature and society, Liquid Power illuminates the political nature of nature.

La eficiencia del agua en las ciudades

Author : Antonio Estevan; Víctor Viñuales
Publisher : Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua/Bakeaz
ISBN 13 : 8488949421
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book La eficiencia del agua en las ciudades written by Antonio Estevan; Víctor Viñuales and published by Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua/Bakeaz. This book was released on 2000 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hace seis años en nuestro país había más de 10 millones de españoles con restricciones diarias de agua. Esta situación traumática no provocó el giro debido en la política del agua. Las leyes y decretos que se adoptaron estaban destinados en su inmensa mayoría a aumentar la oferta del agua. Se desaprovechó la oportunidad para sentar las bases de una cultura del agua basada en la gestión de la demanda. Hasta anteayer la casi única prioridad de los municipios españoles era llevar agua potable (que cumpliera la ley) a las viviendas de las ciudades y pueblos de España. Si la demanda de agua superaba la oferta, el problema consistía en buscar esa agua nueva donde la hubiera. Como sólo se pensaba en la oferta, sólo se actuaba sobre ella. Pero los tiempos están cambiando. Poco a poco ha ido agrietándose el pensamiento único hidráulico y van conformándose nuevas certezas. Actuar sobre la demanda, gestionarla, es deseable y posible. Las sequías en nuestro país no son la excepción, son la norma. Por lo tanto, tenemos que hacer una gestión del agua acorde con nuestro ambiente climático y, también, en consonancia con lo que un desarrollo sostenible comporta. La revolución de la eficiencia que pedía el Club de Roma implica, muy especialmente, realizar una gestión eficiente del agua en los municipios. A lograrlo pretende contribuir esta publicación.

La gestión institucional del agua en España 1978/2008

Author : Juan Antonio Vera Aparici
Publisher : Ediciones Liteam SL
ISBN 13 : 8492558075
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book La gestión institucional del agua en España 1978/2008 written by Juan Antonio Vera Aparici and published by Ediciones Liteam SL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems

Author : Enrique Cabrera
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401712972
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems written by Enrique Cabrera and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems. Because droughts are natural phenomena, water utilities must design and implement drought management plans. This topic was selected for the International Course on Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems, which took place in Valencia, Spain, on 9-12 December 1997, and was hosted by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo (UIMP). The contributions in this book have been carefully selected and presented in four sections: Introduction Water Supply Systems Modernization Drought Management in an Urban Context Practical Cases (Israel, USA, Italy, Spain) To achieve a well-balanced approach, authors were invited from academia as well as from consultancies and water utilities, and have wide experience in the subject. The book is mainly aimed at water supply engineers, working in utilities and consultancies.

A Bibliography of Early California and Neighboring Territory Through 1846

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Siren Song

Author : Carl J. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136527745
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Siren Song written by Carl J. Bauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing scarcity, conflict, and environmental damage are critical features of the global water crisis. As governments, international organizations, NGOs, and corporations have tried to respond, Chilean water law has seemed an attractive alternative to older legislative and regulatory approaches. Boldly introduced in 1981, the Chilean model is the worlds leading example of a free market approach to water law, water rights, and water resource management. Despite more than a decade of international debate, however, a comprehensive, balanced account of the Chilean experience has been unavailable. Siren Song is an interdisciplinary analysis combining law, political economy, and geography. Carl Bauer places the Chilean model of water law in international context by reviewing the contemporary debate about water economics and policy reform. He follows with an account of the Chilean experience, drawing on primary and secondary sources in Spanish and English, including interviews with key people in Chile. He presents the debate about reforming the law after Chile‘s 1990 return to democratic government, as well as emerging views about how water markets have worked in practice. The resulting book provides insights about law, economics, and public policy within Chile and lessons for the countries around the world that are wrestling with the challenges of water policy reform.

Water, Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle?

Author : Lucia De Stefano
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0415631521
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Water, Agriculture and the Environment in Spain: can we square the circle? written by Lucia De Stefano and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity." This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country, Spain, where climatic conditions – Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical water scarcity. The metrification of water uses and their monetary value is a first important step in understanding how reallocation of water among users could help mitigating many of current water problems in Spain. However, water reallocation among users or from users to nature is far from simple. Initiatives portrayed as the solution to the water governance ‘jigsaw’ – e.g. water trade, improved water use efficiency, users collective action, public participation – are not free of difficulties and shortcomings. The book explores the growing need for maintaining Spain’s natural capital and the human component of water governance – people’s needs, wishes, (vested) interests, aspirations – that often determine the result of decisions and, sometimes, lead water management to a deadlock. This book takes a step forward in showing a more complex - and also closer to reality - picture of water governance in Spain.

Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe

Author : Jürgen V. Vogt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401594724
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Drought and Drought Mitigation in Europe written by Jürgen V. Vogt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drought is one of the major natural hazards, resulting in significant economic, social, and environmental costs. In Europe, water shortage is an important problem in many regions. However, despite the increasing awareness of this hazard, there is no European drought policy and institutional frameworks to cope with drought situations are only weakly developed. This book is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the drought problem in Europe and to discussing policy and management options to mitigate its impacts. It covers aspects from the detection of water stress to the planning of mitigation strategies. The contributions are written by recognised experts in their field and represent a unique collection of papers on the topic. Audience: The book will be of benefit to scientists, managers, and politicians involved in problems related to water management, risk assessment, and spatial planning. Students in Earth Sciences, especially in geography, climatology, hydrology, and agriculture, will find useful material in this collection of papers.

Report - Water Resources Center, University of California

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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International Trade in Water Rights

Author : Aline Baillat
Publisher : IWA Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843393611
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book International Trade in Water Rights written by Aline Baillat and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Trade in Water Rights provides a new approach to the questions raised by international water transfer projects: To whom does water belong? More precisely, what rules should govern international water transfers from transboundary watercourses? These issues are usually studied through the lenses of international trade law. International Trade in Water Rights offers a new approach by highlighting the fundamental issue of domestic and international water property regime and introducing the difference between trade in water and trade in water rights. International Trade in Water Rights analyses the conditions under which market-based instruments could participate in the resolution of water disputes over international watercourses and recommendations are made based on the study of two cases of inter-state water trading in the Colorado River Basin and in the Murray Darling Basin. It is argued that the recognition of water as an economic good in domestic water reform will increasingly impact the management of international watercourses. The book is of key interest to water professionals, economists, lawyers, and political scientists dealing with transboundary disputes over water.