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Author : S. de Boer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Participatory Watershed Management and Development in Latin America written by S. de Boer and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asit K. Biswas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317989856
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America written by Asit K. Biswas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been assumed explicitly to be "the" solution for managing the limited water resources of the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in promoting IWRM in developing countries. However, no serious and objective analysis has ever been undertaken as to whether IWRM has made water management more efficient and equitable in any region of the world than otherwise may have been the case. This pioneering analysis indicates that IWRM has not only been unsuccessful in Latin America, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. The reasons and constraints for this failure are outlined. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Author : Ismael Aguilar-Barajas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317906888
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Water and Cities in Latin America written by Ismael Aguilar-Barajas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.
Author : Patrizio Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Developing Participatory and Integrated Watershed Management written by Patrizio Warren and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terence R Lee
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Water Resources Management In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Terence R Lee and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1990-09-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women and Water Management written by Cecilia Tortajada and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Argues That The Active Participation Of Women Is Critical For Ensuring Sustainable Use Of Water Resources. Women`S Role In Water Management Has Hitherto Been Seen Only In The Context Of The Privision Or Use Of Water In Households And Communities.
Author : Vivienne Bennett
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972654
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Opposing Currents written by Vivienne Bennett and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every part of the world, looming or full-blown water crises threaten communities from the largest cities to the smallest rural towns. Over the past two decades, there has been increased attention at the global level to the devastating effects of water shortages and pollution, and policies and principles for implementing the sustainable management of water resources have proliferated. But scholars and activists are beginning to understand that top-down environmental policies are doomed to fail if they do not address local cultures and customary uses. As the contributors to Opposing Currents illustrate, that failure is most evident in the inability to recognize that women not only should become central to water management at the local level, but that, in fact, they already are.This volume focuses on women in Latin America as stakeholders in water resources management. It makes their contributions to grassroots efforts more visible, explains why doing so is essential for effective public policy and planning in the water sector, and provides guidelines for future planning and project implementation. After an in-depth review of gender and water management policies and issues in relation to domestic usage, irrigation, and sustainable development, the book provides a series of case studies prepared by an interdisciplinary group of scholars and activists. Covering countries throughout the hemisphere, and moving freely from impoverished neighborhoods to the conference rooms of international agencies, the book explores the various ways in which women are-and are not-involved in local water initiatives across Latin America. Insightful analyses reveal what these case studies imply for the success or failure of various regional efforts to improve water accessibility and usability, and suggest new ways of thinking about gender and the environment in the context of specific policies and practices.
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Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251055519
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The New Generation of Watershed Management Programmes and Projects written by and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the International Year of Mountains-2002, FAO and its partners undertook a large-scale assessment and global review of the current status and future trends of integrated and participatory watershed management. The overall objectives were to promote the exchange and dissemination of experiences in implementing watershed management projects in the decade from 1990 to 2000 and to identify the vision for a new generation of watershed management programmes and projects. This resource book represents a summary and critical analysis of the rich discussions and vast materials that emerged during the review, as well as the review's findings and recommendations. It presents the state of the art in watershed management, promotes further reflection and creative thinking and proposes new ideas and approaches for future watershed management programmes and projects. This publication has been written primarily for field-level watershed management practitioners and local decision-makers involved in watershed management at the district or municipality level. It will also be a useful source of information for other readers such as senior officers and consultants specialized in other areas, evaluators, policy-makers and students of watershed management
Author : Bárbara A. Willaarts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134682808
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Bárbara A. Willaarts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Although the book takes a regional approach, covering a vast of data pertaining to most of the LAC region, some chapters focus on seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru). A full understanding of LAC’s trends progress requires framing this region in the global context: an ever more globalized world where LAC has an increasing geopolitical power and a growing presence in international food markets. The book’s specific objectives are: (1) exploring the improvements and links between water and food security in LAC countries; (2) assessing the role of the socio-economic ‘megatrends’ in LAC, identifying feedback processes between the region’s observed pattern of changes regarding key biophysical, economic and social variables linked to water and food security; and (3) reviewing the critical changes that are taking place in the institutional and governance water spheres, including the role of civil society, which may represent a promising means to advancing towards the goal of improving water security in LAC. The resulting picture shows a region where recent socioeconomic development has led to important advances in the domains of food and water security. Economic growth in LAC and its increasingly important role in international trade are intense in terms of use of natural resources such as land, water and energy. This poses new and important challenges for sustainable development. The reinforcement of national and global governance schemes and their alignment on the improvement of human well-being is and will remain an inescapable prerequisite to the achievement of long-lasting security. Supporting this bold idea with facts and science-based conclusions is the ultimate goal of the book.
Author : Terence R Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000008991
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Water Resources Management In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Terence R Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the latest in a long line of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean studies on water resources in Latin America and the Caribbean which focus on questions relating to the management of water resource systems.
Author : John Farrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Participatory Watershed Development written by John Farrington and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts have long been made in India to improve the management of major watersheds for ecological reasons - such as reducing the siltation of reservoirs. The management of micro-watersheds (of around 500 hectares) is a more recent focus of policy and has both ecology and livelihoods as itsobjectives. Experiments have shown that, in some areas, more than a doubling of resource productivity can be achieved by careful rehablitation. Many watersheds contain both private and common land. It is already clear from a number a efforts led by NGOs that, to be equitable and institutionally sustainable, the rehabilitation of both common and private lands needs action rooted in strong resource user-groups capable of taking decisions ina participatory way and resolving conflict. To build up groups in this way requires both time and skills, both of which have proved elusive in government projects and programmes. The key question addressed in this book is how far the approaches developed by NGOs can be adopted (or adapted) by the public sector and applied on a wide scale,for, without such approaches, neither the ecological nor the livelihood benefits of watershed rehabilitation will be achieved.
Author : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037334
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Barrio Democracy in Latin America written by Eduardo Canel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.
Author : Juan Alfaro
Publisher : Drylongso Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Water for All in Latin America written by Juan Alfaro and published by Drylongso Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Water for All in Latin America: A Daunting Task presents the outline of all the components related to design, evaluation, implementation and sustainability of investment projects in the water and wastewater field in Latin America. Environmental quality, institutional models, private sector participation, financial, economic and political factors, in addition to technical issues, are also discussed."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T.
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290906006
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book How pro-poor are participatory watershed management projects?: An Indian case study written by Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T. and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report draws on a survey and case study evidence from 28 watershed management groups in Haryana to argue that participatory watershed management projects need not necessarily safeguard the interests of poorer rural households.
Author : International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and Participatory Watershed Management Training in Asia and Department of soil Conservation and Watershed Management, Nepal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Recent Concepts, Knowledge, Practices, and New Skills in Participatory Integrated Watershed Management written by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and Participatory Watershed Management Training in Asia and Department of soil Conservation and Watershed Management, Nepal and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Goodman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Environment and Development in Latin America written by David Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how political, social, and economic factors have turned one of the richest continents in terms of natural resources into one of the poorest environments, and moves beyond models of conventional development to point toward a new political economy for Latin America, centered on sustainable environmental management. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Water Management and Environment in Latin America written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1979 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
