Australia S Water Resources

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Australia’s Water Resources seeks to explore the circumstances underpinning the profound reorientation of attitudes and relationships to water that has taken place in Australia in recent decades. The changing emphasis from development to management of water resources continues to evolve and is reflected in a series of public policy initiatives directed towards rational, efficient and sustainable use of the nation's water. Australia is now recognised as a pacesetter in water reform. Administrative restructuring, water pricing, water markets and trade, integrated water resources management, and the emergence of the private sector, are features of a more economically sound and environmentally compatible water industry. It is important that these changes are documented and their rationale and effectiveness explained. This timely work provides an important synthesis of these issues. This revised paperback edition is a fully corrected reprint of the hardback edition.

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Genre : Science
Author : John Pigram
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release : 2007-05-25
File : 239 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780643098626


Selected Water Resources Abstracts

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Genre : Water
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Release : 1990
File : 638 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000068689193


Policy And Strategic Behaviour In Water Resource Management

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Water resource management throughout the world is a very complicated issue, involving various aspects and dimensions and a well-coordinated set of policies. A well-designed water policy is a multi-faceted concerted intervention, which could be specific to just one set of political and physical socio-economic conditions. A framework to analyse the interaction between policy design and implementation can assist in improving both of these in various physical, economic and political situations. This book focuses on the interaction between policy making and strategic behaviour of policy makers, water users and other stakeholders, and how policy analysis and other analytical tools from the field of game theory and negotiation can improve policy design. The book presents analysis by high-level policy makers and policy analysts from various countries, to share experience regarding specific policy issues that are relevant to almost any country in the world, but may have been addressed differently in each country.

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-05-16
File : 365 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136559594


Australian National Bibliography 1992

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Genre : Australia
Author : National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Release : 1988
File : 1976 Pages
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Science And Policy In Natural Resource Management

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This book was first published in 2006. Despite many well-intentioned policies and changes to management practices, the world's natural resources continue to decline. The roles and interplay between science and policy in the regional broadacre agriculture landscape are examined here, offering readers a thorough understanding of the complex interactions that occur across spatial scales to produce the regional-scale impacts. The fundamental causes of resource degradation, social decline and environmental pollution are addressed, examining the cross-scale drivers from the individual farm level to the global level of commodity systems. Broadacre agriculture is a common land use throughout all continents of the world and is driven by the same type of dynamics, and this case study of the Western Australia agricultural region can be used to clearly demonstrate the principles for other agricultural systems. Aimed at academics, ranging from researchers through to policy analysts, this book will inspire innovation and action in sustainable natural resource management.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Helen E. Allison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2006-08-31
File : 202 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781139458603


Mineral And Water Resources Of Idaho

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Genre : Groundwater
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Release : 1964
File : 356 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105032240512


Earth Observation For Water Resources Management

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Water systems are building blocks for poverty alleviation, shared growth, sustainable development, and green growth strategies. They require data from in-situ observation networks. Budgetary and other constraints have taken a toll on their operation and there are many regions in the world where the data are scarce or unreliable. Increasingly, remote sensing satellite-based earth observation is becoming an alternative. This book briefly describes some key global water challenges, perspectives for remote sensing approaches, and their importance for water resources-related activities. It describes eight key types of water resources management variables, a list of sensors that can produce such information, and a description of existing data products with examples. Earth Observation for Water Resources Management provides a series of practical guidelines that can be used by project leaders to decide whether remote sensing may be useful for the problem at hand and suitable data sources to consider if so. The book concludes with a review of the literature on reliability statistics of remote-sensed estimations.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Luis García
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Release : 2016-04-14
File : 267 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781464804762


Problems Perspectives And Challenges Of Agricultural Water Management

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Food security emerged as an issue in the first decade of the 21st Century, questioning the sustainability of the human race, which is inevitably related directly to the agricultural water management that has multifaceted dimensions and requires interdisciplinary expertise in order to be dealt with. The purpose of this book is to bring together and integrate the subject matter that deals with the equity, profitability and irrigation water pricing; modelling, monitoring and assessment techniques; sustainable irrigation development and management, and strategies for irrigation water supply and conservation in a single text. The book is divided into four sections and is intended to be a comprehensive reference for students, professionals and researchers working on various aspects of agricultural water management. The book seeks its impact from the diverse nature of content revealing situations from different continents (Australia, USA, Asia, Europe and Africa). Various case studies have been discussed in the chapters to present a general scenario of the problem, perspective and challenges of irrigation water use.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Manish Kumar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release : 2012-03-09
File : 471 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789535101178


Water Resources In Jordan

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This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary book to address water policy in Jordan. Edited by the former Minister of Water and Irrigation of Jordan, with contributions by other prominent Jordanian and international water professionals, this volume covers such areas as the population-water resources equation in Jordan; institutional and legal frameworks; the data systems used for the assessment and formulation of water policy; water allocations and uses in municipal, industrial, and agricultural sectors; social and environmental issues; and water conflict with Jordan's neighbors. The book is a must for readers interested in Middle East politics and the critical nature of water issues in the region. The book notes the importance of interaction with the outside world to augment water resources through trade, making the experience of Jordan relevant to other developing regions where water is scarce. It introduces the term 'shadow water' to mean the scarce indigenous water resources that the import of agricultural and industrial commodities saves or replaces. The book shows how financially profitable it can be to treat water as a tradable commodity, to be exchanged peaceably across international borders. Haddadin and his distinguished contributors bring the water conflicts between Jordan and its neighbors, Israel and Syria, into sharp focus. The book includes a historical perspective on the development of water policies in Jordan and explores the significance of water in the religious, social, and political life of the country.

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Genre : Nature
Author : Munther J. Professor Haddadin
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2010-09-30
File : 365 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781136523953


Forest Management And Water Resources In The Anthropocene

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Forest Management and Water Resources in the Anthropocene" that was published in Forests

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Genre : Nature
Author : Ge Sun
Publisher : MDPI
Release : 2018-04-13
File : 221 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783038425755