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Book Synopsis Berg Water Project by : Lawrence J.M. Haas
Download or read book Berg Water Project written by Lawrence J.M. Haas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade has witnessed a major global shift in thinking about water, including the role that water infrastructure plays in sustainable development. This rethinking aims to balance better the social, economic, and environmental performance aspects in the development and management of large dams. Infrastructure strategies must complement strategies for water, environment, and energy security and for emerging concerns to reduce vulnerability in water resource systems to climate change on the horizon. Communication is central to multi-stakeholder dialogue and partnerships at all levels needed to achieve sustainability and governance reform in water resource management and infrastructure provision. At the same time, communication drives the advocacy to mobilize political will and public support for beneficial change and continuous improvement in practices. This case study emphasizes that is not only important to mobilize all opportunities to reconcile water demand and supply in river basins that are coming under increasing levels of water stress, but also to integrate effectively governance and anti-corruption reforms and sustainability improvements into all stages of the planning and project cycle adding value for stakeholders.
Book Synopsis Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management by : Leonardo Mazzei
Download or read book Opportunities in Dam Planning and Management written by Leonardo Mazzei and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers 'how to' ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World Bank?s own expanding portfolio of dam projects.
Book Synopsis Environmental Flows in Water Resources Policies, Plans, and Projects by : Rafik Hirji
Download or read book Environmental Flows in Water Resources Policies, Plans, and Projects written by Rafik Hirji and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the understanding and integration in operational terms of environmental flows (water allocation) into integrated water resources management (IWRM). Based on an in-depth analysis of 17 global water policy, plan, and project case studies, it addresses the highly contested complexities of environmentally responsible water resources development, broadens the global perspectives on "equitable sharing" and "sustainable use" of water resources, and expands the definitions of "benefits sharing" in high-risk water resources development. The book fills a major gap in knowledge on IWRM and forms an important contribution to the ongoing discourse on climate change adaptation in the water sector.
Book Synopsis Setting Standards for Communication and Governance by : Lawrence J. M. Haas
Download or read book Setting Standards for Communication and Governance written by Lawrence J. M. Haas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title outlines a number of practical initiatives to strengthen the role of development communication in infrastructure projects. The authors aim to facilitate better quality projects and to build consensus on the type of governance reforms needed to fight corruption, drawing on the experience of development agencies like the World Bank and Transparency International. It starts by characterizing corruption vulnerabilities in infrastructure and proceeds to illustrate where communication has added value on a number of recent projects, both in regard to making the projects more sustainable and by incorporating anti-corruption measures into the project preparation and implementation. It draws on examples of mainly World Bank-supported projects from the road, transport, power, and water sectors in different governance contexts. Five standard-setting initiatives are then outlined, which focus on promoting best practice to better integrate development communication into the project cycles of World Bank-supported infrastructure projects.
Author :United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Environmental Policy Implementation. Dams and Development Project Publisher :UNEP/Earthprint ISBN 13 :9789280728163 Total Pages :196 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (281 download)
Book Synopsis Dams and Development by : United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Environmental Policy Implementation. Dams and Development Project
Download or read book Dams and Development written by United Nations Environment Programme. Division of Environmental Policy Implementation. Dams and Development Project and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of relevant practices of dealing with environmental and social issues during the planning, design and management of dams. The Compendium covers 9 topics selected by the multistakeholder Dams and Development Forum. It discusses the state of the art regarding dealing with the topics around the world. It shows how they are captured by regulatory frameworks and provides a number of examples illustrating how they have been implemented on the ground.--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story by : Gisela Kaiser
Download or read book Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story written by Gisela Kaiser and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy. Regions reliant on water supply from rainfed dams have always been vulnerable to the impact of drought. This is exacerbated by the uncertainty of future rainfall, which is never guaranteed, and reliance is placed on modelling using historic data. While weather has always been variable, climate has been generally reliable. With anthropogenic activity causing changes in climate, the validity of modelling based on history is currently not fully trusted. Unless the storage capacity is sufficient to carry through numerous seasons of poor rainfall, even with water restrictions to match demand and supply in times of depleted rainfall, the risk of reservoirs running dry remains a threat.
Book Synopsis The Hydropolitics of Dams by : Mark Everard
Download or read book The Hydropolitics of Dams written by Mark Everard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a synthesis of approaches is needed in future. The book also addresses political, economic and legal dimensions of water management. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa, this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate physical and social technologies that can help to sustainably provide access to clean water for all.
Book Synopsis South Africa’s water governance hydraulic mission (1912–2008) in a WEF-Nexus context by : Johann W.N. Tempelhoff
Download or read book South Africa’s water governance hydraulic mission (1912–2008) in a WEF-Nexus context written by Johann W.N. Tempelhoff and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologists, physicists and ecologists currently promote the idea of a post-Holocene epoch – the Anthropocene. As a result of constant innovation and modernisation in the fields of engineering, natural science, management studies and environmental studies there has been a growing awareness of the intrinsic interaction between humankind and the environment. Humankind has become part of the environmental dynamics, to the extent that they are literally able to change ecosystems. Nowhere is the impact more evident than in the anthropogenic engagement with the hydrosphere – from the smallest pool of water to the earth’s atmosphere. Comprehensive infrastructure development in water and sanitation, the growing trend to seek additional resources in the form of groundwater, desalinated seawater, and recycled wastewater, as well as special attention being given to capturing and preserving rainwater, bear evidence of a timely response to climate change, population growth and rapid development in many water-stressed regions of the world. The purpose of the book is to provide a historical overview of the manner in which South Africa’s water resources have been governed from a time when the Union of South Africa was formed, in 1910, up to 2008, a time of a growing global awareness of the potential impact that climate change may have on water resources in a key region of southern Africa, notable for increasing levels of aridity and more erratic rainfall patterns. This focus on the history of water affairs in South Africa makes it possible for scholars to comprehend the contemporary transitions made in the country’s water governance system since the establishment in 2014 of the Department of Water and Sanitation. The focus is on the Water–Energy–Food nexus, a strategy which holistically contemplates the governance and use of water from the perspective of the interconnection between water, energy and food as resources.
Book Synopsis Reading for Water by : Isabel Hofmeyr
Download or read book Reading for Water written by Isabel Hofmeyr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Book Synopsis Adapting Cities to Climate Change by : David Dodman
Download or read book Adapting Cities to Climate Change written by David Dodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability and adaptation in urban centres throughout the global South. Published with E&U and International Institute for Environment and Development
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Book Synopsis Fair Deals for Watershed Services in South Africa by : Nicola King
Download or read book Fair Deals for Watershed Services in South Africa written by Nicola King and published by IIED. This book was released on 2008 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assembly Bills, Original and Amended by : California. Legislature. Assembly
Download or read book Assembly Bills, Original and Amended written by California. Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Social Impact Assessment and Management by : Frank Vanclay
Download or read book Handbook of Social Impact Assessment and Management written by Frank Vanclay and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This carefully conceived Handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the field of social impact assessment (SIA), highlighting contemporary understandings and emerging issues in this continually evolving area of research and practice. Experienced SIA practitioners from around the world share their learnings and advice on a comprehensive range of issues faced in social performance practice.
Book Synopsis Annual report by : South Africa. Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Download or read book Annual report written by South Africa. Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Appropriations by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Appropriations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1198 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations for 1982 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations for 1982 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
