Water resources planning and management/ edited by R. Quentin Grafton, Karen Hussey. - Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Part I Understanding 'water'; 1 Climate change and the global water cycle; 2 Understanding global hydrology; 3 Groundwater and surface water connectivity; 4 Understanding the basics of water quality; 5 Inland water ecosystems; 6 Water, biodiversity and ecosystems: reducing our impact; 7 Global food production in a water-constrained world: exploring 'green' and 'blue' challenges and solutions; Part II Water resources planning and management 8 Water law and the search for sustainability: a comparative analysis9 Tackling the global water crisis: unlocking international law as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world's shared transboundary waters --
introducing the H2O paradigm; 10 Risk and uncertainty in water resources planning and management: a basic introduction; 11 Collaboration and stakeholder engagement; 12 Capacity building and knowledge sharing; 13 Adaptive and integrated management of water resources; 14 Gender and integrated water resource management 15 Environmental flows: achieving ecological outcomes in variable environmentsPart III Water resources planning and management: case studies; III. 1 Water and waste water treatment; III. 2 Agricultural water use; III. 3 Urban water supply and management; III. 4 Aquatic ecosystems; III. 5 Industrial and mining water use; III. 6 Rural and remote communities; III. 7 Water infrastructure design and operation; III. 8 Managing water across borders; III. 9 Market mechanisms in water management; Contributors; Index

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