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Product Description: Water, air and sun light are the three most important resources for the sustenance of life on the planet earth. While human race has hardly any control on air and sun light, water from time immemorial has always been used by various kingdoms/ states/ groups of people as an important aspect of their respective security policy to exercise their influence over their adversaries through a control/ denial of common water resources...read more
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9789382652069 | Natl Book Network, June 1, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Water, air and sun light are the three most important resources for the sustenance of life on the planet earth.
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9789384464097 | Reprint edition (Vij Books, April 7, 2015), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Water, air and sun light are the three most important resources for the sustenance of life on the planet earth.
Product Description: Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national level, which on their own have proved insufficient to arrest water scarcity...read more
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9781610915366 | Island Pr, June 3, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems.
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9781610915380 | Island Pr, June 3, 2014, cover price $25.00
Product Description: This book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are being acted out in water policies is fundamental to an understanding of water resource management...read more
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9780415626446 | Routledge, September 17, 2013, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: This book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are being acted out in water policies is fundamental to an understanding of water resource management.
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9780415626453 | Routledge, October 16, 2013, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: This book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are being acted out in water policies is fundamental to an understanding of water resource management.
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9780415534703, titled "Water Security: Principles, Perspectives, and Practices" | Routledge, November 7, 2013, cover price $160.00
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9780415534710, titled "Water Security: Principles, Perspectives, and Practices" | Routledge, December 2, 2013, cover price $59.95
Product Description: Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to human and animal life. Itâs equally important to the world economy: it functions as a universal solvent, makes possible industrial cooling and transportation, and is necessary for all kinds of agriculture...read more
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9781584659877 | Univ of New Hampshire, April 12, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Clean, fresh drinking water is essential to human and animal life.
Product Description: Water policy initiatives often run into difficulties when they encounter the realities of really existing societies. Policies may not get implemented as planned, and may not achieve their stated objectives. Many things happen when policy initiatives travel from formulation to implementation...read more
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9783643106728 | Lit Verlag, June 17, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Water policy initiatives often run into difficulties when they encounter the realities of really existing societies.
Product Description: Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search for improved organization and delivery of these essential services...read more
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9781844076567 | Routledge, May 31, 2009, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals.
Product Description: Part of OECD Water Resources and Sanitation Set - Buy all four reports and save over 30% on buying separately! Water is a key prerequisite for human and economic development, and for maintaining ecosystems. However, billions of people lack access to water and sanitation services, mainly due to poor governance and inadequate investment and maintenance...read more
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9781843392798 | Intl Water Assn, March 20, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Part of OECD Water Resources and Sanitation Set - Buy all four reports and save over 30% on buying separately!
Product Description: This volume describes various scenarios of conflict and cooperation over water resources among stakeholders in a variety of settings. It discusses treaty making over international rivers, bilateral cooperation on river development between South Africa and Lesotho, the political economy of water supply in the Pacific Island region, the establishment of the Mekong River Commission in Southeast Asia, comparative river basin management in the United States and South Korea, and the International Joint Commission formed by Canada and the United States to resolve boundary water conflicts...read more
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9781578085118 | CRC Pr I Llc, July 1, 2007, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: This volume describes various scenarios of conflict and cooperation over water resources among stakeholders in a variety of settings.
Product Description: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series, Volume 16. From the local to the global scale, water use and sustainability are issues of pressing importance. Never before has water science needed to inform water policy so much, and never before have we seen how challenging it is to advance that relationship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780875903200 | Amer Geophysical Union, November 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series, Volume 16.
To fully analyze the relationship between water management, environmental conditions and public policy, this book reviews the development of water management and evaluates it from the perspective of the quality of the natural environment. Examples are drawn from around the world, and range from local watershed management to international river basin planning, with emphasis placed on integrative approaches. Successful water management is crucial for the proper operation of natural environmental systems and for the support of human society. (view table of contents)
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9780521362115 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: To fully analyze the relationship between water management, environmental conditions and public policy, this book reviews the development of water management and evaluates it from the perspective of the quality of the natural environment.
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9780521369800 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 3, 2003, cover price $89.99
This book examines some of the successes and failures of actual implementation of modern water policy options in the light of the principles and concepts which have emerged from the Rio Earth Summit, the Dublin Statement and other international consensus. The book attempts to share real practical experience at all levels: local, regional, national and international, emphasising the co-operation between different professions and sectors that must take place to ensure adequate supplies of fresh water in future.
Hardcover:
9780419216506 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 1, 1996, cover price $385.00 | About this edition: This book examines some of the successes and failures of actual implementation of modern water policy options in the light of the principles and concepts which have emerged from the Rio Earth Summit, the Dublin Statement and other international consensus.
Miscellaneous:
9780203476741, titled "Water Policy: Allocation and Management in Practice" | Spon Pr, October 4, 2003, cover price $330.00
Product Description: The threat of water scarcity touches human populations and ecosystems worldwide. This work overviews the various legal responses to conflicts involving water as a resource. It addresses the continuous development of water law in the face of new water shortage scares...read more
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9789041106575 | Kluwer Law Intl, June 1, 1997, cover price $277.00 | About this edition: The threat of water scarcity touches human populations and ecosystems worldwide.
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