New water resources book by Shimon Anisfeld
Shimon C. Anisfeld has just announced the publication of the book: Water Resources, the latest title in the Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies series.
The book is a concise but comprehensive primer on all aspects of water resources, useful to both professionals and students.
In this concise introduction to water resources, Shimon Anisfeld explores the fundamental interactions between humans and water, including drinking, sanitation, irrigation, and power production. The book familiarizes students with the current water crisis and with approaches for managing this essential resource more effectively in a time of rapid environmental and social change. Anisfeld addresses both human and ecological problems, including scarcity, pollution, disease, flooding, conflicts over water, and degradation of aquatic ecosystems. In addition to providing the background necessary to understand each of these problems, the book discusses ways to move towards better management and addresses the key current debates in the water policy field. In the past, water development has often proceeded in a single-sector fashion, with each group of users implementing its own plans without coordination with other groups, resulting in both conflict and inefficiency. Now, Anisfeld writes, the challenge of water management is figuring out how to balance all the different demands for water, from sanitation to energy generation to ecosystem protection.
For inquiring students of any level, Water Resources provides a comprehensive one-volume guide to a complex but vital field of study. |
Biographies:
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld is Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Water Resources and Environmental Chemistry at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His articles have appeared in major journals, including Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, and Estuaries
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News type | Inbrief |
File link |
http://islandpress.org/bookstore/detailsb551.html?prod_id=1798 |
Source of information | ISLAND PRESS |
Keyword(s) | water scarcity, pollution, disease, flooding, conflicts over water, degradation of aquatic ecosystems |
Subject(s) | HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , WATER DEMAND |
Geographical coverage | n/a |
News date | 18/10/2010 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |