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Integrated Water Resource Management in Brazil (Hardcover)
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Integrated Water Resource Management in Brazil (Hardcover)
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The complex interactions between water resources, land-use change
and water technologies are a major issue in many emerging countries
of Southern America. Usable water resources are affected by natural
conditions, such as, strong seasonal contrasts and high climatic
variability, and rapid changes of land use and land cover that is
caused by the dramatic expansion of agricultural land and
urbanization processes. So far, the effects of the changing climate
have had minor effects on water resources. Although regional data
is rather scarce, global climate models predict substantial changes
of climatic conditions in the future. A further pressure is that
demand for water supply and waste water, both in terms of amount
and spatial expansion, is increasing rapidly due to higher
population densities caused by natural population growth and
migration as well as higher per capita consumption. Integrated
Water Resource Management in Brazil aims to present the results of
the joint project IWAS-AGUA DF which deals with problems, causes
and solutions in water supply in scope of integrated water resource
management in western Central Brazil. The basic idea of the IWRM
approach to be presented is to show how natural conditions and
human interference are interacting and how technologies as well as
concepts might help to manage such water resource systems in a
sustainable way. Authors: Carsten Lorz, Hochschule
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, University of Applied Sciences, Germany,
Franz Makeschin, Dresden University of Technology, Germany and
Holger Weiss, Center for Environmental Research, Germany
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