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Author | : Vladimir Arana |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2016-05-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319303430 |
This book focuses in the current situation of water resources, water supply and sanitation, and population movement in Latin America. It identifies new phenomena and challenges that will put more pressure on water resources in the near future and that will create important socioeconomic constraints in population and their governments. This volume offers an evaluation of water resources availability and consumption, water supply and sanitation shortages, management models and population growth and territory occupation trends in eighteen Latin American countries. Also a set of recommendations, policy proposals and projects is outlined.
Author | : United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean |
Publisher | : United Nations |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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This publication gives insight into the economic trends, the international economy and the role of exchange rate policy in the region. It also explores the economic developments by country. Included also is a statistical annex on diskette.
Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789250044590 |
This survey, presented in English and Spanish, covers 32 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of the survey is to: provide a clear picture of rural water resources management on a country basis with emphasis on irrigation, and featuring major characteristics, trends, constraints and perspectives; help support continental and regional analyses by providing reliable information and to serve as a tool for large scale planning and forecasting. The survey was done by means of: literature review; data collection using a questionnaire; data processing and critical analysis of the information; preparation of a country profile.
Author | : Ismael Aguilar-Barajas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-05-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1317906896 |
Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Caribbean Area |
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Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Caribbean Area |
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Author | : Arnold Ivan Johnson |
Publisher | : IAHS Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Hydrology |
ISBN | : 9781901502701 |
Author | : United Nations Environment Programme |
Publisher | : UNEP/Earthprint |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9789280722949 |
Author | : Bárbara A. Willaarts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1134682808 |
This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Although the book takes a regional approach, covering a vast of data pertaining to most of the LAC region, some chapters focus on seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru). A full understanding of LAC’s trends progress requires framing this region in the global context: an ever more globalized world where LAC has an increasing geopolitical power and a growing presence in international food markets. The book’s specific objectives are: (1) exploring the improvements and links between water and food security in LAC countries; (2) assessing the role of the socio-economic ‘megatrends’ in LAC, identifying feedback processes between the region’s observed pattern of changes regarding key biophysical, economic and social variables linked to water and food security; and (3) reviewing the critical changes that are taking place in the institutional and governance water spheres, including the role of civil society, which may represent a promising means to advancing towards the goal of improving water security in LAC. The resulting picture shows a region where recent socioeconomic development has led to important advances in the domains of food and water security. Economic growth in LAC and its increasingly important role in international trade are intense in terms of use of natural resources such as land, water and energy. This poses new and important challenges for sustainable development. The reinforcement of national and global governance schemes and their alignment on the improvement of human well-being is and will remain an inescapable prerequisite to the achievement of long-lasting security. Supporting this bold idea with facts and science-based conclusions is the ultimate goal of the book.
Author | : Seth Appiah-Opoku |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-11-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9535108328 |
Environmental Land Use Planning brings together leading scholars in the field of environmental problem solving to examine environmental problems and effects on land uses; analytical methods and tools in the field; and the role of governments, community grants and tradable permits in environmental planning. The chapters are based on empirical research from countries around the globe including Canada, USA, China, Nigeria, Germany, Serbia, Venezuela, and Brazil. The book discusses such issues as predicting changes in land use pattern, ecological footprint analysis, socioeconomic and behavioral modeling, and flood control approaches. It is insightful and serves as an important resource and reference material on environmental management.