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1 Water Science, Policy, and Management: Introduction |
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1.2 Drivers of Change: Environment, Politics, Economics |
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1.3 Responses to Change: Technology, Information, Equity |
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1.4 Science, Policy and Management |
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Part I Water Science |
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2 Hydroclimatic Extremes and Climate Change |
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2.2 Key Concepts in Climate Science |
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2.2.1 The Water Cycle in the Earth System |
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2.2.2 Radiative Energy Transfer in the Atmosphere |
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2.2.3 Convection and Atmospheric Stability |
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2.2.4 The General Circulation |
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2.3 Hydroclimatic Variability and Extremes |
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2.3.1 Modes of Hydroclimatic Variability |
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2.3.2 El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) |
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2.3.3 South Asian Monsoon |
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2.3.4 North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) |
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2.3.5 Other Modes of Variability |
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2.4 Climate Change and Hydrology |
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2.4.1 Understanding the Link Between Climate Change and Hydroclimatic Extremes |
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2.4.2 Climate Models and Climate Projections |
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2.4.3 Downscaling and Uncertainty |
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2.5 Managing Hydroclimatic Extremes |
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2.5.1 Quantifying Risk and Uncertainty |
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2.5.2 Planning for Extremes in Flood Risk and Water Resources Management |
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2.5.3 Comparing Top-down with Bottom-up Approaches |
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3 Groundwater Resources: Past, Present, and Future |
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3.1 Introduction to Groundwater Science |
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3.2 Quantities of Groundwater: Storage, Recharge, and Abstraction |
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3.2.2 Future Outlook on Measuring Groundwater Quantity |
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3.2.3 Improving Scientific Knowledge of Groundwater Volumes and Fluxes |
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3.3.1 The Composition of Groundwater: Natural Baselines and Pollution |
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3.3.2 Future Outlook on Groundwater Water Quality: Key Constraints and Approaches to Addressing Them |
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3.4 Groundwater and Climate Change |
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3.4.1 Long-term Climatic Influences on Groundwater |
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3.4.2 Current and Future Influences of Climate Change on Groundwater |
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3.5 Continuing Challenges for Groundwater Science |
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4 Water Quality Modelling, Monitoring, and Management |
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4.1 Water Quality Modelling Background SS |
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4.1.1 Water Quality: The Problem |
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4.1.2 Management Model Approaches and History |
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4.1.3 Generic Types of Water Quality Models |
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4.1.4 Lumped Modelling Approaches |
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4.1.5 Case Study 1: Modelling of Metals Downstream of Mines in Transylvania |
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4.2 Water Quality Modelling at the Catchment Scale S |
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4.2.1 Integrated Catchment Approach - A Brief Review |
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4.2.2 The Integrated Catchments (INCA) Model System |
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4.2.3 Case Study 2: Modelling Contaminants Using INCA - Metaldehyde in the Thames |
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4.2.4 Case Study 3: Water Quality in the Turag-Balu River System, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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4.3 Monitoring Strategies Past and Present |
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4.3.2 National-scale Monitoring |
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4.3.3 Long-term Monitoring of Key Scientific Sites |
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4.3.4 Citizen Science Monitoring |
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4.3.5 Case Study 4: Monitoring and Modelling the Murray-Darling System in Australia |
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5 Challenges for Freshwater Ecosystems |
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5.1 How do Freshwater Ecosystems Work? |
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5.1.1 Structure and Function of Freshwater Ecosystems |
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5.1.2 Key Challenges in Freshwater Ecology |
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5.2 The Challenge of Water Quality Management: Linking Freshwater Ecosystems to Water Quality |
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5.2.1 'The Kidneys of the Landscape' |
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5.2.2 Constructed Wetlands |
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5.2.3 Managing Freshwater Ecosystems for Water Quality Enhancement |
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5.3 The Challenge of Invasive Non-native Species: Impacts on Diversity and Ecosystem Function |
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5.3.1 The Spread of Non-native Freshwater Species |
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5.3.3 What Can be Done About the Problem? |
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5.4 The Challenge of Environmental Change: Managing Biogeochemical Cycles and Water Security in Freshwaters |
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5.4.1 Impacts of Warming and Changing Atmospheric GHGs on Freshwaters |
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5.4.2 Environmental Flows |
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5.5 Approaches to Tackling the Challenges of Freshwater Ecosystem Conservation and Management |
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5.5.1 Technical Innovations |
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5.5.1.1 Environmental DNA |
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5.5.1.2 Remote Sensing Methods and Databases |
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5.5.2 Social Science Innovations |
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6 Water and Health: A Dynamic, Enduring Challenge |
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6.2 Classifying and Measuring Health Outcomes |
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6.3 Politics and Innovation in Water and Health |
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6.3.1 Measurement: Understanding the Role of Malnutrition and Infection in Diarrhoea |
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6.3.2 Treatment: Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) |
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6.3.3 Knowledge: Emerging Health Issues |
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6.3.4 Politics and the Pace of Disruption |
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6.4 Beyond Outbreaks: The Underreported Health Burden of Inadequate Water Supplies |
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6.5 Enteric Environmental Dysfunction |
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6.5.1 Visible Disease from Chemical Exposure |
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6.5.2 Hypertension and Cancer |
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6.5.3 Cognitive Impairment |
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6.5.4 Psychosocial Distress |
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6.5.5 Revisiting the Water-Related Burden of Disease |
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6.6 Water and Health Challenges in the SDG Period |
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6.6.1 Improving Service Levels |
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6.6.2 Improving Water Quality Testing Methods |
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6.6.3 Leaving No One Behind |
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7 Monitoring and Modelling Hydrological Processes |
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7.1 Modelling Hydrological Systems: Current Approaches |
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7.1.1 From Local Catchment Models to Global Hydrological Studies |
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7.1.2 Validation, Verification, and Confirmation in Hydrological Modelling |
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7.1.3 Representing Human-managed Water Systems |
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7.2 Monitoring Hydrological Systems |
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7.2.1 Monitoring the Global Water Cycle Across Scales |
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7.2.2 Decline of In Situ Monitoring |
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7.2.4 Land-based and Airborne Techniques |
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7.2.5 Non-traditional Hydrological Monitoring Systems |
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Part II Policy |
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8.1 Water Crises as Allocation Challenges |
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8.2 Navigating Reallocation |
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8.3 Socio-cultural Dimensions |
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8.3.1 Navigating the Changing Culture of Water in Spain |
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8.4 Natural and Technological Dimensions |
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8.5 Political Economy Dimensions |
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8.5.1 Barriers to Reallocation from Agriculture to the City of Cape Town |
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8.6 A Ladder of Interventions? |
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8.7 Frontiers of Water Allocation |
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9 Rural Water Policy in Africa and Asia |
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9.1 Fifty Years of Rural Water Policy in Africa and Asia |
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9.2 Pillars of Rural Water Policy |
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9.3 Community Access, 1980-2000 |
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9.4 Rights and Results, 2000-2020 |
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9.5 Regulated Services, 2020-2030 |
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10 The Human Right to Water |
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10.1 The Legal and Historical Background of the Human Right to Water |
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10.2 Defining the Human Right to Water |
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10.2.1 Difference Between Human Right to Water and Water Rights |
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10.3 Implementing the Human Right to Water |
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10.4 Gap Between Policy Articulation and Implementation of the Human Right to Water |
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10.5 Key Policy Challenges Facing the Human Right to Water |
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11 Policy Processes in Flood Risk Management |
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Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell |
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11.2 Flood Risk: Global and Local Scales |
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11.3 Three Theories of the Policy Process |
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11.3.1 Punctuated Equilibrium |
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11.3.3 Advocacy Coalitions |
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11.4 Four Contrasting Case Studies of the Policy Process |
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11.4.1 South Africa: 1994-2002 and Beyond |
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11.4.2 Advocacy Coalitions in Bangladesh and the Role of Donor Agencies |
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11.4.3 Flood Risk Management in Tanzania: The President as Policy Entrepreneur |
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11.4.4 Flood Insurance in the UK: Six Decades of Relative Policy Stability |
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12 The Political Economy of Wastewater in Europe |
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12.2 Models of Service Delivery |
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12.3 Wastewater as a Driver of Investment and Cost Recovery |
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12.4 Case Studies - Paris and Ireland |
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12.5 Discussion and Conclusion |
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12.5.1 The Hidden Role of Wastewater |
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12.5.2 Emerging Needs and Opportunities in Wastewater |
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13 Drought Policy and Management |
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13.2 Drought, Aridity, Water Scarcity, and Desertification |
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13.3 Climate Change and Drought |
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13.4 Drought Policy and Management Development |
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13.4.1 Drought Legislation |
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13.4.3 Drought Governance |
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13.5 The 'Three Pillars' of Drought Management |
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13.5.1 Pillar 1: Drought Monitoring and Early Warning Systems |
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13.5.2 Pillar 2: Drought Impact and Vulnerability Assessments |
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13.5.3 Pillar 3: Drought Preparedness Planning |
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13.5.4 A Range of Policy Instruments Including Insurance and Water Allocation Regimes |
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13.6.1 Pillars 1 and 2: Drought Monitoring, Impacts, and Vulnerability |
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13.6.2 Pillar 3: Drought Preparedness, Mitigation, and Response Strategies |
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13.7 The Example of the Middle East and North Africa Region |
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13.7.1 Pillar 1: Technical and Institutional Drought Monitoring Challenges |
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13.7.2 Pillars 2 and 3: Drought Management Institutional Coordination Challenges |
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13.7.3 Building Resilience - The Moroccan Drought Insurance Example |
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13.8.1 Case Studies Synthesis |
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13.8.2 Future Directions for Research |
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Part III Water Management |
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14 Water Resource System Modelling and Decision Analysis |
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14.1 The Challenge of Sustainable Water Supply |
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14.2 The Water Resource System Problem |
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14.3 Dealing with Multiple Objectives |
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261 | (2) |
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14.4 Variability and Risk |
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14.5 Uncertainty and Decisions |
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14.6 Embedding Simulation Modelling in Practical Decision-making |
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14.7 The Expanding Boundaries of Water Resource Systems |
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15 Financing Water Infrastructure |
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15.2 The Infrastructure Financing Challenge |
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15.4 Stakeholder Collaboration and the Constructive Corporation |
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15.5 Hybridity and Blended Finance |
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15.6 Blended Returns on Investments in Infrastructure |
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15.7 Water Infrastructure Portfolio Management |
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16 Wastewater: From a Toxin to a Valuable Resource |
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16.2 The Early Formative Years |
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16.3 Early Full-Scale Application and Process Development |
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16.4 The Age of Understanding |
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16.5 Some Important Legislative and Institutional Changes |
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16.6 More Understanding and a Plethora of Processes |
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16.7 The Question of Sludge |
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16.7.2 Toxic Organic Chemicals |
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16.8 A New Philosophy; A New Paradigm? |
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16.8.5 Other Recoverable Materials |
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16.9 The Uncollected and Untreated |
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16.9.2 Innovative Institutional Arrangements |
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17 A Road Map to Sustainable Urban Water Supply |
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17.2 International Stimuli - What Has Been Achieved? |
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17.2.1 A Brief History Before the Water Decade of 1981-1990 |
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17.2.2 The Water Decade 1981-1990 |
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17.2.3 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) |
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17.3 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
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17.3.1 Formation and Definitions |
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17.3.2 Water and Sanitation as a Human Right |
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17.4 Challenges to be Faced |
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17.4.1 Sustained Political Commitment to Goal |
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17.4.3 Effective Planning |
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17.4.5 Water Distribution |
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17.5.2 National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), Uganda |
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17.6 Achieving Awareness of What Needs to Be Done |
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17.7 An Outline Road Map to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on Water |
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18 Equity and Urban Water Security |
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18.2 Urban Water Security: Framing the Global Challenge |
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18.2.1 Urban Water Security |
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18.2.2 The Importance of the Urban Space |
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331 | (1) |
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18.2.3 The Challenge of Water Security for Urban Spaces |
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332 | (2) |
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18.3 Trade-offs in Urban Water Security |
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18.3.1 The Water Security Challenge |
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18.3.2 One Solution for a Complex Issue |
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18.3.3 Universal and Equitable Development |
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18.4 Inclusive Water Security: A Case Study of Sao Paulo's Water |
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19 Reflections on Water Security and Humanity |
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19.2 Human Origins and Water: Then and Now |
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346 | (3) |
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19.2.1 African Beginnings |
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346 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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19.2.3 The Tigris and Euphrates |
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347 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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19.2.5 What Might We Learn from These Reflections? |
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19.3 Water Security and Risk |
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349 | (2) |
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19.4 Eight Major Global Water Security Challenges |
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19.4.1 The Dynamic Challenge of Water Security Risks in Changing Climates |
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19.4.2 The Challenge of Water Supply and Sanitation |
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19.4.3 The Challenge of Hunger |
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352 | (1) |
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19.4.4 The Challenge of Floods |
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353 | (1) |
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19.4.5 The Challenge of Drought |
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353 | (1) |
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19.4.6 The Challenge of International and Transboundary Waters |
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354 | (1) |
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19.4.7 The Challenge of 'Spillovers': From Local to Global |
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355 | (1) |
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19.4.8 The Challenge for the World's low Latitude' Regions |
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355 | (1) |
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19.5 Conclusions: Priorities and Pathways for Policy-makers |
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19.5.1 Three Priorities for Investment |
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356 | (1) |
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19.5.2 Pathways to Water Security |
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357 | (1) |
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358 | (5) |
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20 Charting the World's Water Future? |
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363 | (4) |
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Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell |
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20.1 Linking Water Science, Policy, and Management |
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363 | (1) |
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20.2 Charting the World's Water Future: Five Key Challenges |
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363 | (2) |
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20.3 A Vision for Interdisciplinary Water Education |
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365 | (2) |
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