Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands write by Jurgen Schmandt. This book was released on 2021-09-16. Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations. The authors suggest how to respond to these challenges without loss of food production, drinking water, or environmental health. The analysis of the political, hydrological, and environmental conditions within each basin gives policymakers, engineers, and researchers interested in the water/sustainability nexus a better understanding of engineered rivers in arid lands.
Land, Water and Development
Land, Water and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land, Water and Development write by Malcolm Newson. This book was released on 2002-09-11. Land, Water and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a fully revised and expanded second edition of Malcolm Newson's acclaimed book. Exploring in greater depth the meaning of sustainability in river basin development this new edition: * highlights the rapid evolution of practical concepts since the Rio Earth Summit * features new illustrations and case studies from Australia, South Africa and Israel * makes the ecosystem model more explicit throughout * strengthens coverage of the linkages between land and water management.
Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands
Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands write by Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, Academia de Ingeniería de México y Academia Nacional de Medicina de México. This book was released on 2019-01-27. Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and natural systems. Warming and drying conditions threaten surface water and groundwater availability, disrupt land- and marine-based livelihood systems, and challenge the sustainability of human settlements. These biophysical challenges are exacerbated by a highly mobile and dynamic population, volatile economic and policy conditions, increased exposure to extreme events, and urbanization on marginal, vulnerable lands. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine collaborated with the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine to plan a 2-day binational workshop, Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands. The workshop goals were to highlight the challenges facing the region, assess the scientific and technical capacity that each nation can bring to bear in addressing these challenges, and identify new opportunities for binational research collaboration and coordinated management approaches in the advancement of sustainability science and development. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth write by Laith A. Jawad. This book was released on 2021-09-12. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The system of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers is one of the great river systems of southwestern Asia. It comprises the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of the Middle East. The lower portion of the region that they run through is known as Mesopotamia, was one of the cradles of civilisation. There are several environmental factors that govern the nature of the two rivers and shape the landscape the two rivers running through. Geological events create rivers, climate monitor the water supply, the surrounding land influences the vegetation and the physical and chemical features of water. The Tigris-Euphrates system runs through the territory of four countries, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Therefore, any scientific approach to the environment of these two rivers should include the natural history events in these countries. The book "Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth" will be divided into nine parts. These parts deal with the issues of the environment, the status of the flora and fauna, the abiotic aspects, ecology, hydrological regime of the two rivers, the biotic aspects. Water resources, stress of the environment, conservation issues. Since the book of Julian Rzoska "Euphrates and Tigris Mesopotamian Ecology and Destiny" in 1980, no book or major reference has been published that includes between its cover the facts and information that the present book will present. Therefore, the importance of the present book falls in stating the present status of the environment of the two rivers and the comparison of their environment between now and that of 37 years ago as given by J. Rzoska (1980). The recent studies showed that there are a large number of natural and political events that happened within the last three decades in the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system that for sure have done a great change to the environment of the two rivers and consequently changing the biological and non-biological resources of the two rivers. This book will be a reference book to both Academic and students across the Middle East in different disciplines of knowledge to use in their researches on Tigris-Euphrates river system. The scholars interested in this area will use this book as a guide to compare this freshwater system with other areas in Asia and the world.
Recent Researches in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Recent Researches in Earth and Environmental Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recent Researches in Earth and Environmental Sciences write by Yaseen T. Mustafa. This book was released on 2019-06-21. Recent Researches in Earth and Environmental Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book includes the papers presented in International Conference on Advanced Science and Engineering 2019 (ICOASE2019), which held in Duhok, Kurdistan Region-Iraq, on April 2-4, 2019. The conference is organized by both the University of Zakho and Duhok Polytechnic University. The conference, and consequently these proceedings, aimed to give more concrete expression to the natural sciences and engineering applications with a new multilateral scientific forum that emphasizes the vulnerability and proactive remediation from an Earth and Environmental point of view. This book covers a wide range of questions and gives advanced themes on current research focusing on emerging environmental issues and challenges in chemistry, biology, physics, and related areas in geoscience with their applications.
