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The Water-Sustainable City
David L. Feldman
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water fr...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Water Allocation in Rivers under Pressure
Dustin Evan Garrick
Water trading and river basin governance have been upheld as institutional blueprints for allocating water for people, agriculture and ecosystems in a changing climate. Progress has been uneven, however, despite multiple decades of insti...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Water and the Law
Edited by Michael Kidd, Loretta Feris, Tumai Murombo, Alejandro Iza
Water and the Law examines the critical relationship between law and the management of water resources in the context of ensuring environmental sustainability. It highlights the central importance of integrated water resources management...eBook:Find out more$51.16
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Wine and Economics
Denton Marks
What is distinctive about the economics of wine? Wine’s health benefits stir debate, but many appreciate life-enhancing qualities from its production and enjoyment. Few products enjoy such wide distribution, rich history, and interest. T...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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![Social Entrepreneurship in the Water Sector]()
Social Entrepreneurship in the Water Sector
Rafael Ziegler, Lena Partzsch, Jana Gebauer, Marianne Henkel, Justus Lodemann, Franziska Mohaupt
There are few sectors where ‘getting things done sustainably’ is as important as it is for the water sector. From drinking water and sanitation to water use in agriculture, industry, and ecosystems, Rafael Ziegler and his co-authors inve...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Multilevel Environmental Governance
Edited by Inger Weibust, James Meadowcroft
The literature on Multi-level governance (MLG), an approach that explicitly looks at the system of the many interacting authority structures at work in the global political economy, has grown significantly over the last decade. The autho...eBook:Find out more$42.36
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Governing International Rivers
Tun Myint
This important book employs the theory of polycentricity, a system with several centers as an analytical concept to explain the multilayered international environmental governance of river basins. It introduces a new methodological frame...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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![The Water–Energy Nexus in the American West]()
The Water–Energy Nexus in the American West
Edited by Douglas S. Kenney, Robert Wilkinson
The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious resources are at stake. This book contributes to the body of knowledg...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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![Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries]()
Scarcity, Entitlements and the Economics of Water in Developing Countries
P. B. Anand
P.B. Anand argues that if water supply and sanitation were mainly problems of technology or financial resources, they would have been resolved long ago. While appreciating that technology and finances are important, he ascertains that th...eBook:Find out more$47.96
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![The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making]()
The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making
Edited by Clifford S. Russell, Duane D. Baumann
This broad review of the development of US water resource policy analysis and practice offers perspectives from several disciplines: law, economics, engineering, ecology and political science. The historical context provided goes back to...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Economic Valuation of River Systems
Edited by Fred J. Hitzhusen
The book applies benefit–cost analysis and a wide array of non-market and distribution economic valuation methods in ecologic context to determine the pay-off and distribution impacts of various infrastructure and water quality improveme...eBook:Find out more$59.96
