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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of the United Nations Water Conference, Mar Del Plata, 14-25 March, 1977 written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyne Fiechter-Widemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498294073
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Human Right to Water: Justice . . . or Sham? written by Evelyne Fiechter-Widemann and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water is a matter of life and death. Advanced technology and engineering enable humans to gain better access to it. Nonetheless, the conditions and effort required to reach this goal remain colossal in many countries. Building a lasting infrastructure for adequate treatment before and after use is costly. Therefore, the author believes that a radical change of thinking among people around the world, from the domestic to the large-scale users, becomes a priority. Even if the United Nations entitles all people to justice for water, more responsible and ethical use of it by all interested parties is more important than the spreading of promises, which, in practice, may turn out to be a sham. Only a better understanding that access to water rests on the efforts of everyone, without exception, will reduce overuse, waste, and pollution of the indispensable resource. This volume, while written from a theological, philosophical, and legal perspective (focusing on John Calvin, John Rawls, and Paul Ricoeur), demonstrates that water cannot be merely understood as a human right, but also has to be dealt with from an economic point of view as well as under the authority of the Golden Rule.
Author : Michael G. Schechter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135282757
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book United Nations Global Conferences written by Michael G. Schechter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book covers the origins purposes, trends and controversies of the United Nations' global conferences. There are 30 such conferences to compare, and many argue that they have not been worth the money spent on them. Others, however, suggest that they offer the only effective way to address global problems, like racism, sexism, overpopulation, environmental degradation, overfishing, urbanization, and the proliferation of small arms. This is the first comprehensive study of this key topic, delivering information essential to the ongoing debate on multilateralism, with examinations of: * the typical structure of a conference * description of the Global Conferences * substantive and institutional outcomes of the conferences * changes resulting from the conferences * UN Conferences as mechanisms for coping with the problems of the 21st Century This book is essential reading for students of the United Nations, international organisation and global governance, as well as practitioners from non-governmental organizations.
Author : Alfredo Sfeir-Younis
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429723229
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Land And Soil Management written by Alfredo Sfeir-Younis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil erosion has become a problem of crisis proportions in developing countries around the globe, and better approaches to land management are desperately needed. This book provides analytical frameworks to guide the creation and appraisal of soil erosion control programs. The authors discuss a broad range of important issues involved in designing and implementing more effective soil conservation programs. The book begins with a discussion of the physical and economic dimensions of soil erosion and an estimation of the extent of the problem. It then explains how to improve the evaluation of soil conservation programs by integrating scientific knowledge with economic methods and procedures. A series of practical illustrations graphically demonstrates the application of the concepts derived from the theory. The most important organizational, institutional, technical, and macroeconomic aspects of soil and land management appraisal are outlined, and the major elements of project or program design are also pinpointed and illustrated. Finally, the book suggests areas most in need of future research.
Author : J. G. Lammers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789024729555
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Pollution of International Watercourses written by J. G. Lammers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1984 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Utton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000009823
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Water In A Developing World written by Albert Utton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the questions of how best to manage water resources in the face of growing demand. It explores various water management problems encountered by developing countries, with an emphasis on institutional and human factors that affect economic growth.
Author : Inga Winkler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847319637
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Human Right to Water written by Inga Winkler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State obligations. The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the most basic needs of all people. The human right to water has the potential to address these underlying structural causes of the lack of access to water rooted in inequalities and poverty by empowering people to hold the State accountable to live up to its human rights obligations and to demand that their basic needs are met with priority.
Author : Gordon J. Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521467124
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Global Water Resource Issues written by Gordon J. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's water resources are coming under increasing stress, a stress that will become critical globally sometime during the next century. This is due to the rapidly rising population demanding more and more water and an increasing level of affluence. The book discusses the background to this issue and the measures to be taken over the next 20-30 years to overcome some of the difficulties that can be foreseen, and the means of avoiding others, such as the hazard of floods. It looks at the water resource and its assessment and management in an integrated fashion. It deals with the requirements of agriculture and of rural and urban societies and to a lesser extent with those of industry and power, against the background of the needs of the natural environment. It presents a number of ways and means of improving the management of national and international affairs involving fresh water. It highlights the importance of fresh water as a major issue for the environment and for development.
Author : Inga M. Jacobs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441149686
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Water in Africa written by Inga M. Jacobs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels. To investigate water politics, this unique work focuses on the issue transboundary water governance in Southern and Eastern Africa. Based on extensive field research, it offers a comparative study of the Orange Senqu and Nile basins in Africa, arguing that both causal and behavioral factors (such as localization and trust building) drive the multi-leveled development of cooperative management norms and foster the creation of regional communities of interest. The book combines theory, analysis, and fieldwork within the framework of Constructivism as well as a wide range of examples to identify and analyze the nature of norms in hydropolitics. By doing so, it will help shape the debate on how water conflict and cooperative governance should evolve and will interest anyone studying African politics, hydropolitics, and issues of development.
Author : Joseph Cotruvo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351420976
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Providing Safe Drinking Water in Small Systems written by Joseph Cotruvo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued lack of access to adequate amounts of safe drinking water is one of the primary causes of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide and a serious situation which governments, international agencies and private organizations are striving to alleviate. Barriers to providing safe drinking water for rural areas and small communities that must be overcome include the financing and stability of small systems, their operation, and appropriate, cost-effective technologies to treat and deliver water to consumers. While we know how to technically produce safe drinking water, we are not always able to achieve sustainable safe water supplies for small systems in developed and developing countries. Everyone wants to move rapidly to reach the goal of universal safe drinking water, because safe water is the most fundamental essential element for personal and social health and welfare. Without safe water and a safe environment, sustained personal economic and cultural development is impossible. Often small rural systems are the last in the opportunity line. Safe Drinking Water in Small Systems describes feasible technologies, operating procedures, management, and financing opportunities to alleviate problems faced by small water systems in both developed and developing countries. In addition to widely used traditional technologies this reference presents emerging technologies and non-traditional approaches to water treatment, management, sources of energy, and the delivery of safe water.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Foreign Assistance Legislation for Fiscal Year 1979 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United Nations. Economic and Social Council
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Documents written by United Nations. Economic and Social Council and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : Oxford Commentaries on Interna
ISBN 13 : 0199686777
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development written by Jorge E. Viñuales and published by Oxford Commentaries on Interna. This book was released on 2015 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international community has long grappled with the issue of protecting the environment while encouraging social and economic development, often with limited results. The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was an emphatic attempt to address this issue, setting down 27 key principles for the international community to follow. This work provides a comprehensive examination of these principles and their subsequent implementation.
Author : Jamie Bartram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317436989
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Water and Health written by Jamie Bartram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook provides an authoritative source of information on global water and health, suitable for interdisciplinary teaching for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. It covers both developing and developed country concerns. It is organized into sections covering: hazards (including disease, chemicals and other contaminants); exposure; interventions; intervention implementation; distal influences; policies and their implementation; investigative tools; and historic cases. It offers 71 analytical and engaging chapters, each representing a session of teaching or graduate seminar. Written by a team of expert authors from around the world, many of whom are actively teaching the subject, the book provides a thorough and balanced overview of current knowledge, issues and relevant debates, integrating information from the environmental, health and social sciences.
Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136559027
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity written by Laura Westra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The ecological challenge demands a paradigm shift in our thinking about the human-environment relation. Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity provides a ‘state of the art account of work on ecological integrity - and offers a compelling vision for the future. Derek Bell, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle A book of vast scope and richness ... If policymakers around the world took notice of this insightful set of messages, we would all live with greater happiness, health, and wellbeing, with a brighter future for our children and grandchildren. Lawrence O. Gostin, O‘Neill Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center This book attempts to do in theory what the world needs to do in practice. It is an ecological master plan that shows how we can not only survive but also flourish. James P. Sterba, President of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Ecosystems have been compared to a house of cards: remove or damage a part and you risk destroying or fundamentally and irreversibly altering the whole. Protecting ecological integrity means maintaining that whole - an aim which is increasingly difficult to achieve given the ever-growing dominance of humanity. This book is the definitive examination of the state of the field now, and the way things may (and must) develop in the future. Written and edited by members of the Global Ecological Integrity Group - an international collection of the worlds most respected authorities in the area - the book considers the extent to which human rights (such as the rights to food, energy, health, clean air or water) can be reconciled with the principles of ecological integrity. The issue is approached from a variety of economic, legal, ethical and ecological standpoints, providing an essential resource for researchers, students and those in government or business in a wide range of disciplines.
Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802207147
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent Era written by Peter Dauvergne and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rapid destabilization, escalation and convergence of various environmental crises, global environmental politics is facing extreme turbulence. Tracing the causes, consequences and dangers of planetary turbulence, this essential book identifies the emerging opportunities to improve governance in environmental politics and transition the world order toward greater equity, justice and sustainability.
Author : Inter-parliamentary Union. Conference
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
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