Managing Europe's water resources : twenty-first century challenges /

"Water managers in the twenty-first century face a complex variety of interacting challenges. Though Europe is generally well supplied with water resources to meet its needs, there are regions of chronic shortage as well as regions of unacceptably low quality water. Where either there is the ca...

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Main Author: Staddon, Chad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Water and human civilisation at the beginning of the 21st century
  • Water regulation at the global level
  • Managing water in Europe
  • Managing scarce water resources : the qualitative dimension
  • Managing scarce water resources : the quantitative dimension
  • Issues in European water management 1 : water utility privatisation in Europe
  • Issues in European water management 2 : dams
  • Climate change, social change and Europe's water futures
  • Managing Europe's water : 21st century challenges.