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Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources

  • 1st Edition - July 14, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Omid Bozorg-Haddad
  • Language: English

Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources provides a fully comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of all three factors in their relation to water resources… Read more

Description

Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources provides a fully comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of all three factors in their relation to water resources. Economic issues consist of Water accounting, Water economy, Water pricing, Water market, Water bank and bourse. Political issues consist of Water power and hydrogemistry, Water diplomacy and hydropolitics, Water rights and water laws, Water governance and policy, Shared water resources management, Water management systems, and social issues consist of Water and culture, civilization and history, Water quality, hygiene, and health, Water and society.

This book familiarizes researchers with all aspects of the field, which can lead to optimized and multidimensional water resources management. Some of abovementioned issues are new, so the other aim of this book is to identify them in order to researchers can easily find them and use them in their studies.

Key features

  • Includes diverse case studies from around the world
  • Presents contributions from global and diverse contributors with interdisciplinary backgrounds, including water engineers, scientists, planners the economic, political and social issues surrounding water
  • Contains in-depth definitions and concepts of each topic

Readership

Water resources managers in environmental science and agriculture. Water consumer industries

Table of contents

1. Water Accounting

2. Water economy

3. Water Pricing

4. Water Market

5. Water bank and bourse

6. Geopolitics

7. Waterpower

8. Water diplomacy

9. International Water rights and laws

10. Water Policy and Governance

11. Shared Water Resources Management

12. Water Management Systems

13. Water and culture

14. Water quality, hygiene, and health

15. Water and society

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 14, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Omid Bozorg-Haddad

Dr. Omid Bozorg-Haddad is a distinguished professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. His teaching and research interests include water resources, energy, and environmental systems analysis, engineering, planning, and management as well as application of simulation techniques and optimization algorithms in water related systems. He has published more than 40 books and book chapters, 300 journal and 200 conference papers. He has also supervised more than 100 M.Sc. thesis and Ph.D. dissertations.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Irrigation and Reclamation Engineering, University of Tehran, Karaj, Alborz, Iran

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