Water Risk Hotspots for Agriculture
Agriculture is expected to face increasing water risks that will impact production, markets, trade and food security - risks that can be mitigated with targeted policy actions on water hotspots....
The Land-Water-Energy Nexus: Biophysical and Economic Consequences
This report contributes to the discussion of interconnections between scarce resources by highlighting the nexus between land, water and energy (the LWE nexus). It focuses on a dynamic, integrated...
Wealth Creation without Pollution - Designing for Industry, Ecobusiness Parks and Industrial Estates
The development of eco-industrial parks and associated ‘ecological industry’ concepts offer progressive integrated approaches to resolve pollution problems from effluents and wastes of all kinds...
Customer Experience Management for Water Utilities: Marketing urban water supply
Customer Experience Management for Water Utilities presents a practical framework for water utilities to become more focussed on their customers. This framework is founded on Service-...
Manual Sobre os Direitos Humanos à Água Potável e Saneamento para Profissionais
This is the Portuguese translation of Manual on the Human...
Large Risks with Low Probabilities: Perceptions and willingness to take preventive measures against flooding
This volume contains studies of one particular category of risky situations, namely, those involving highly negative consequences with low probabilities. Situations of this type involve both...
Dealing with the Complex Interrelation of Intermittent Supply and Water Losses
The book provides a scientific approach into appraising Intermittent Water Supply (IWS) on a global scale through the analysis of available information and data based on a structured methodology...
Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective
Finnish Water Services: Experiences in Global Perspective, the latest book by UNESCO Chair holder Tapio S. Katko, challenges the reader to assess critical sector issues:
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Organic Waste Recycling: Technology, Management and Sustainability - 4th edition
This fourth edition of Organic Waste Recycling is fully updated with new material to create a comprehensive and accessible textbook:
- New chapter on constructed wetlands for...
Environmental Conservation, Clean Water, Air & Soil (CleanWAS): International Conference Proceedings 26 -28 August, 2016, China
As we embark into the 21st century, we need to address new challenges ranging from population growth, climate change, and depletion of natural resources to providing better health care, food...