International voices fill the pages of Water and Sustainability in
Arid Regions, forming an original scientific exploration of current
water research and management issues. In arid regions, agriculture
that is ill-adapted to the environment, accelerated urbanization,
poverty, and increasing pollution challenge access to and uses of
water. Understanding these issues requires incorporating findings
from both the physical and social sciences at different temporal
and spatial scales. The chapters in this book were written by
hydrologists, remote sensing specialists, ecologists, historians,
economists, political scientists, architects, archaeologists, and
other experts who live in and study arid lands. The authors present
updates, overviews, and analyses of water challenges these areas
have faced and are striving to address, from salinization in the
fabled Taklimakan Desert in China to land degradation in the
northern Mediterranean to groundwater over-exploitation in the
southwestern United States. The book also examines desertification,
remote sensing, qanat systems, architecture, arsenic contamination,
and other case studies from Iran, the Maghreb region, Argentina and
Chile, and Mexico. From this conceptual mosaic of comparative
perspectives and research methods emerges a strong assumption: an
interdisciplinary approach that combines physical and social
sciences is the first step toward globally and comprehensively
addressing water and sustainability."This book is a valuable and
welcome contribution to the discussion of water and sustainable
development. Through the collection of chapters, the book clearly
illustrates the contemporary diversity of approaches to water
scarcity and presents pertinent and new research findings that
readers generally do not find compiled together. The result is a
highly relevant, accessible, and timely resource that is unique in
its international and interdisciplinary content. This is a
must-read for anyone working on environmental and sustainability
issues in arid lands."Andre Mariotti, University Pierre et Marie
Curie, and INSU - CNRS (National Institute for Earth Sciences and
Astronomy-National Center for Scientific Research/Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique), France "Anyone who reads this book
will find himself or herself contemplating the need to rethink how
we approach the issue of water and sustainability in arid lands.
Drawing on the expertise of both physical and social scientists,
the chapters taken as a whole present global, historic, and current
perspectives on water scarcity in a multi-layered way that rarely
has been done before." Miguel Solanes, Madrid Water Institute,
Spain
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