书目名称 | Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions | 副标题 | Bridging the Gap Bet | 编辑 | Graciela Schneier-Madanes,Marie-Francoise Courel | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | 关键词 | Architecture; Arid regions; Groundwater; Traditional technology and infrastructure; Water; Water manageme | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2776-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9191-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-90-481-2776-4 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 |
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