Drought & Water Supply

Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their combined effects ...

Drought is a slow-onset disaster. The impacts are invisible and are often reflected as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. Due to changes in the c...

Financing Water Security and Green Growth offers a comprehensive overview of the innovative financial instruments and approaches available to imple...

Following Russia's aggressive war in Ukraine, the world is suddenly gripped by concerns over energy security. And yet, there is an even greater thr...

This book investigates water issues in the Euphrates-Tigris basin between Turkey, Syria and Iraq (Iran). It presents the importance of water in the...

This book addresses water privatization from a historical-sociological perspective and argues against the unrelenting imposition of neoprivatist wa...

A volume in the three-volume Remote Sensing Handbook series, Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies documents the scientif...

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe....

Availability of and adequate accessibility to freshwater and energy are two key technological and scientific problems of global significance. At th...

The Times Book of the Year pickSmart, sobering, and scholarly. Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosa...

Water is a major global issue that will shape our future. Rarely, however, has water been the subject of literary critical attention. This book ide...

A holistic approach to humanitys global use and management of water resources In Water: Our Sustainable and Unsustainable Use, distinguished enviro...

This book discusses resilient urban water resources management in the context of climate change and ongoing urbanization. Twelve cities worldwide r...

Water is life. Managing water quantity and quality is a big part of human responsibility. Water Management and Sustainability in Asia covers topics...

The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be...

Complex water problems cannot be resolved by numbers or narratives. Contingent and negotiated approaches are necessary for actionable outcome. In t...

This open access book considers that the Central and South Asian region sits at the middle of geographical, geopolitical, economic and historical c...

This open access book considers that the Central and South Asian region sits at the middle of geographical, geopolitical, economic and historical c...

Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political eco...

It has been estimated that globally, 1.2 billion people live with acute shortage of water. Water scarcity, particularly in south and south-east Asi...

An essential book for everyone who seeks to reclaim the commons and build a just and equitable society.John Nichols, The NationAn exploration of bo...

Water is central to all life, but we use it to destroy. Water can nourish, but we use it to starve. It can cleanse and unify, but we ensure it cont...

The worlds water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-bas...

Sets out a rich and complex topic in ways that are both accessible and sufficiently nuanced. There is probably no more urgent issue than the questi...

This open access book considers the water, energy, food (WEF) nexus in the Pacific region. The region comprises seventeen sovereign countries and s...

Complex water problems cannot be resolved by numbers or narratives. Contingent and negotiated approaches are necessary for actionable outcome. In t...

Semi-arid regions are ecological security barriers that prevent arid regions from expanding and turning into deserts. The expansion of arid regions...

This book addresses groundwater governance, a subject internationally recognized as crucial and topical for enhancing and safeguarding the benefits...

Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in th...

As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire...

As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire...