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1 1997. With rivers to the sea: Interaction of land activities, fresh water and enclosed coastal seas: Abstracts, posters. Joint Conference - 7th Stockholm Water Symposium and the 3rd International Conference on the Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS), 10-15 August 1997, Stockholm, Sweden. 119p.
Water resources ; Water management ; Water quality ; Water pollution ; Environmental effects ; Reservoirs ; Monitoring ; Watercourses ; Wastewater ; Irrigation systems ; Wetlands ; Rivers ; Computer techniques ; Education / Finland / Sweden / Germany / Poland / Latvia / Estonia / Lithuania / Nigeria / Brazil / India / South Africa / Japan / Russian Federation / Baltic sea / Black Sea / Chesapeake Bay / Gulf of Thailand / Seto Inland Sea / Neva Bay / Stockholm / Obere Leine River / Kurshiu Marios Lagoon / Gulf of Finland / Leba Basin / Gulf of Riga / Danube River / Caspian Sea / Guanabara Bay / Rio-de Janeiro / Cape Town / Lagos Lagoon / Osaka Bay
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 WIT Record No: H021084)
2 Vajpeyi, D. K. (Ed.) 1998. Water resource management: A comparative perspective. Westport, CT, USA: Praeger Publishers. xii, 177p.
Water resource management ; Decentralization ; Water policy ; Water supply ; Price policy ; Water use ; Water shortage ; Water pollution ; Flood control ; Hydroelectric schemes ; Environmental effects ; Dams ; River basins ; Arid zones ; Conflict ; International cooperation ; Wastewater ; Legislation ; Case studies / China / Brazil / India / Africa South of Sahara / Nigeria / Germany / Three Gorges Project / Narmada River Basin Project / Rhine River / Danube River / Amazon Basin / Sertao River / Sao Francisco River / Paranß River / Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 VAJ Record No: H025744)
3 Calvert, P.; Reader, M. 1998. Water resource management in Brazil. In Vajpeyi, D. K. (Ed.), Water resource management: A comparative perspective. Westport, CT, USA: Praeger Publishers. pp.71-92.
Water resource management ; Forests ; Policy ; Reservoirs ; River basins ; Wetlands ; Water pollution ; Financing / Brazil / Amazon Basin / Sertao River / Sao Francisco River / Paranß River / Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 VAJ Record No: H025748)
4 Lee, T. R. 1979. Metropolitan growth and water management in Latin America. Natural Resources Forum, 3:401-416.
Water resource management ; Urbanization / Latin America / Peru / Brazil / Lima / Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7077 Record No: H035797)
5 Filho, W. L.; Azeiteiro, U. M.; Alves, F. (Eds.) 2016. Climate change and health: improving resilience and reducing risks. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 532p. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24660-4]
Climate change mitigation ; Public health ; Health hazards ; Disaster risk reduction ; Resilience ; Extreme weather events ; Flooding ; Landslides ; Food security ; Food wastes ; Water Supply ; Water quality ; Malnutrition ; Vector-borne diseases ; Infectious diseases ; Malaria ; Dengue ; Ebolavirus ; Cardiovascular system ; Mental health ; Air quality ; Poverty ; Sustainable development ; Political aspects ; Social aspects ; Environmental sustainability ; Highlands ; Ecosystems ; Rain ; Training ; Communities ; Geographical information systems ; Case studies ; European Union countries / Sahel / Cameroon / Nigeria / Mozambique / Brazil / Bolivia / Uruguay / Paraguay / Portugal / Austria / Rio de Janeiro / Gaza Province / Vienna / Sao Paulo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H049478)
6 Coates, R. 2022. Infrastructural events? Flood disaster, narratives and framing under hazardous urbanisation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 74:102918. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102918]
Natural disasters ; Risk reduction ; Flooding ; Infrastructure ; Urbanization ; Governance ; Political ecology ; Vulnerability ; Landslides ; Landscape / Brazil / Rio de Janeiro
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051101)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420922001376/pdfft?md5=3577153312757fa150cb28c4771928c1&pid=1-s2.0-S2212420922001376-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051101.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051101.pdf
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‘The river was moved too close to my house!’ declared a soon-to-be-displaced resident following flood disaster in Brazil. Infrastructural engineering decades earlier had changed the river's course and led to the flooding of his home, yet the state now blamed a rainstorm for causing the disaster. The narrative of a natural event provided the pretext for urban governance based around evictions and further rounds of infrastructural engineering, nominally aimed at pre-empting a dangerous climate future. The paper takes the circumstances of this case to trigger a conceptual discussion on governance of the disaster event, narratives, and the promise of infrastructures to mitigate alarming urban futures. I draw on urban political ecology, the sociology of the event, and recent social studies of infrastructure, while also questioning understandings of eventful nature in the post-human turn. Tackling urban disaster risk, it is argued, depends on a political reframing of disasters as infrastructural events. This is a reflexive process that challenges how risks are produced through capitalist urbanisation, with the aim of making this longer temporality eventful for social change. A focus on politicised infrastructures reveals and disrupts dominant natural hazard narratives that remain integral to hazardous urban expansion.
7 Re, V.; Manzione, R. L.; Abiye, T. A.; Mukherji, Aditi; MacDonald, A. (Eds.) 2022. Groundwater for sustainable livelihoods and equitable growth. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press - Balkema. 367p. (IAH - International Contributions to Hydrogeology 30) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003024101]
Groundwater management ; Sustainable livelihoods ; Equity ; Water resources ; Water security ; Groundwater recharge ; Groundwater extraction ; Groundwater irrigation ; Small scale systems ; Water use ; Conjunctive use ; Surface water ; Water scarcity ; Water governance ; Water policies ; Legal frameworks ; Water supply ; Water harvesting ; River basins ; Watersheds ; Water springs ; Wells ; Alluvial aquifers ; Hydrogeology ; Climate change ; Resilience ; Adaptation ; Strategies ; Urban development ; Landscape conservation ; Periurban areas ; Rural areas ; Villages ; Coastal areas ; Stubble burning ; Rice ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Households ; Socioeconomic development ; Case studies / Africa / South America / Asia / Sahel / Niger / Ghana / Togo / Ethiopia / Zimbabwe / Chad / Malawi / United Republic of Tanzania / Libya / India / Indonesia / Myanmar / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Brazil / West Bengal / Haryana / Gunungsewu Karst Area / Vientiane Plain / Shan State / Techiman Municipality / Rio de Janeiro / Lome / Harare / Tigray / Al Jabal Al Akhdar / Kachchh / Mato Grosso do Sul / Taunggyi / Ekxang / Sume Alluvial Aquifer / Tekeze River Basin / Lake Chad Basin / Great Ruaha River Catchment / Guandu River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H051156)
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Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth explores how groundwater, often invisibly, improves peoples’ lives and livelihoods. This unique collection of 19 studies captures experiences of groundwater making a difference in 16 countries in Africa, South America and Asia. Such studies are rarely documented and this book provides a rich new collection of interdisciplinary analysis. The book is published in colour and includes many original diagrams and photographs.
Spring water, wells or boreholes have provided safe drinking water and reliable water for irrigation or industry for millennia. However, the hidden nature of groundwater often means that it’s important role both historically and in the present is overlooked. This collection helps fill this knowledge gap, providing a diverse set of new studies encompassing different perspectives and geographies. Different interdisciplinary methodologies are described that can help understand linkages between groundwater, livelihoods and growth, and how these links can be threatened by over-use, contamination, and ignorance.
Written for a worldwide audience of practitioners, academics and students with backgrounds in geology, engineering or environmental sciences; Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth is essential reading for those involved in groundwater and international development.
Spring water, wells or boreholes have provided safe drinking water and reliable water for irrigation or industry for millennia. However, the hidden nature of groundwater often means that it’s important role both historically and in the present is overlooked. This collection helps fill this knowledge gap, providing a diverse set of new studies encompassing different perspectives and geographies. Different interdisciplinary methodologies are described that can help understand linkages between groundwater, livelihoods and growth, and how these links can be threatened by over-use, contamination, and ignorance.
Written for a worldwide audience of practitioners, academics and students with backgrounds in geology, engineering or environmental sciences; Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth is essential reading for those involved in groundwater and international development.
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