Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands: Challenge and Response - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108417035 ISBN 13 : 9781108417037

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jurgen Schmandt is Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Distinguished Fellowat the Houston Advanced Research Center where he developed their sustainability program. He specializes in water policy and sustainable development. He previously worked at the German Academic Exchange Service, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Harvard University. He used his work on water and drought in the Rio Grande basin and Northeast Brazil to start the SERIDAS project in 2013. He has published books and articles on technology and society, environmental regulation, climate change, water policy and sustainable development.

Aysegül Kibaroglu is Professor of International Relations at MEF University, Istanbul. She was a visiting professor at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Building a Regime for the Waters of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin (Brill, 2002) and co-editor of Turkey's Water Policy (Springer, 2011). She has published in International Negotiation, Water International, Water Policy, International Journal of Water Resources Development and Global Governance. She is a founding member of the Euphrates Tigris Initiative for Cooperation (ETIC).

Regina M. Buono is a nonresident scholar at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and a doctoral candidate in public policy at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. She is a co-editor of Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Gas and Oil (Springer, 2019) and has published in Water International, Water Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, and Environmental Science and Technology.

Sephra Thomas is a recent graduate from the University of Texas, Austin. She completed her Master of Public Affairs and Master of Science in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering. Through her graduate career, she has edited and published a report on the sustainability of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, developed a MOOC for the NAIAD2020 project at IHE Delft, and researched the intersectionality of water management in Mexico City, Chicago, and the Nile Basin. She hopes to continue her career in water resources management in the intersection between policy and engineering.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108417035
• ISBN 13: 9781108417037
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 500
• Éditeur: Schmandt Jurgen, Kibaroglu Aysegül
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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