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Watershed hydrology, management and modeling
\"The book will provide the comprehensive insight of the watersheds and modeling of the hydrological processes in the watersheds. This book will cover the detailed concepts of watershed hydrology and watershed management. The basic concepts of soil erosion and its types, measurement and estimation of runoff and soil loss from the small and large watersheds will be discussed. Recent advances in the watershed management like application of remote sensing and GIS and hydrological models will be included in the book. The insight to the various important hydrological models will also be given in the book. The book will be a guide for professional and competitive examinations to Under Graduate students of Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering and Master students of Soil Science/ Soil and Water Engineering/Agricultural Physics/ Hydrology/Watershed Management\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Catchment and river basin management : integrating science and governance
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. The authors present a systematic analysis of case study river systems drawn from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, UK and USA to provide an integrated global assessment of the scale and key features of catchment management.
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Governing the Nile River Basin
The effective and efficient management of water is a major problem, not just for economic growth and development in the Nile River basin, but also for the peaceful coexistence of the millions of people who live in the region. Of critical importance to the people of this part of Africa is the reasonable, equitable and sustainable management of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries.
Written by scholars trained in economics and law, and with significant experience in African political economy, this book explores new ways to deal with conflict over the allocation of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. The monograph provides policymakers in the Nile River riparian states and other stakeholders with practical and effective policy options for dealing with what has become a very contentious problem-the effective management of the waters of the Nile River. The analysis is quite rigorous but also extremely accessible.
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Cooperation in the Law of Transboundary Water Resources
Climate change, population growth and the increasing demand for water are all capable of leading to disputes over transboundary water systems. Dealing with these challenges will require the enhancing of adaptive capacity, the improving of the quality of water-resources management and a reduction in the risk of conflict between riparian states. Such changes can only be brought about through significant international cooperation. Christina Leb's analysis of the duty to cooperate and the related rights and obligations highlights the interlinkages between this duty and the principles of equitable and reasonable utilisation and the prevention of transboundary harm. In doing so, she considers the law applicable to both international watercourses and transboundary aquifers, and explores the complementarities and interaction between the rules of international water law and the related obligations of climate change and human rights law.
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Correction: A sustainability framework based on threats, consequences, and solutions (TCS) for managing watershed commons
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295228.].
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Governing the Nile River basin : the search for a new legal regime
\"Written by scholars trained in economics and law, and with significant experience in African political economy, this book explores new ways to deal with conflict over the allocation of the waters of the Nile River and its tributaries. The monograph provides policymakers in the Nile River riparian states and other stakeholders with practical and effective policy options for dealing with what has become a very contentious problem--the effective management of the waters of the Nile River. The analysis is quite rigorous but also extremely accessible\"--Publisher's website.
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Prioritization-based management of the watershed using health assessment analysis at sub-watershed scale
Examining the problems and prioritization of various parts of the watershed is one of the essential factors for presenting programs and action plans for the adaptive management of the watershed. In other words, presenting executive measures should be based on specific problem-dependent variables, determinant criteria, and effective indicators in the watershed. However, the spatial prioritization of watersheds using a problem-based health assessment approach has yet to be described. Understanding the challenges of the watershed is thus an inescapable requirement for good planning and implementation of natural resource projects, which leads to the prevention of degradation in constantly changing ecosystems and, ultimately, successful natural resource management. The health assessment of the watershed would be the best framework to identify problems and effective variables leading to sustainable watershed management, so that, at the watershed scale, a health assessment is a valuable method for assessing and identifying effective human, ecological, and environmental resource management strategies. It leads to a proper classification of effective elements and the assessment of degrees of controllability, allowing watershed managers to focus their efforts on priority sub-watersheds to efficiently address current challenges. However, such a comprehensive approach has seldom been considered. The current study, therefore, employed the health analysis initiative for the prioritization of sub-watersheds of the Mikhsaz Watershed, Mazandaran Province, Iran. The watershed health was conceptualized and consequently outlined based on various effective and problem-oriented criteria using the pressure–state–response (PSR) framework. Toward that, the PSR framework was customized and corresponding watershed indicators of pressure (P), state (S), and response (R) were conceptualized according to 17 climatic, hydrologic, physical, and anthropogenic factors. The results showed that biologic density and ratio of the number of permitted to unauthorized livestock contributed to pressure indicator at the tune of 36.54%. Hydrologic factors controlled state and response statuses at a contribution rate of 56.07 and 80.11%, respectively. Accordingly, pressure, state, and response indices were found to be 0.68, 0.61, and 0.75 leading to a dominant relatively healthy status of the watershed health (i.e., 46%) with an overall index of 0.68. Besides, pressure, state, response indices were calculated, and associated effective variables were recognized for each sub-watershed led to a prioritization zoning map. The sub-watershed prioritization map can be utilized for designating optimal strategy for the sustainable and of course problem-oriented management of the study watershed.
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