Society - Water - Technology A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects /

This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group  "Society – Water – Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and portrays an application to the Lowe...

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Tác giả khác: Hüttl, Reinhard F. (Biên tập viên), Bens, Oliver (Biên tập viên), Bismuth, Christine (Biên tập viên), Hoechstetter, Sebastian (Biên tập viên)
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Phiên bản:1st ed. 2016.
Loạt:Water Resources Development and Management,
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Truy cập trực tuyến:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18971-0
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Mục lục:
  • Part I: Context and Objective
  • Introduction: A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects and the Need for Interdisciplinary Approaches
  • Water Ethics – Orientation for Water Conflicts as Part of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Deliberation
  • Part II: Major Water Engineering Projects – Challenges, Problems, Opportunities.- Major Water Engineering Projects: Definitions, Framework Conditions, Systemic Effects
  • A Global View on Future Major Water Engineering Projects
  • Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts and Economic Valuation
  • Water Governance: A Systemic Approach
  • Research in two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley
  • Part III: The Fergana Valley – Uzbekistan’s Hydro-Agricultural System between Inertia and Change
  • Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies
  • From Upscaling to Rescaling – Transforming the Fergana from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan
  • Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today: Ecological Implications –Economic Necessities
  • Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of the Water Users Associations
  • Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan between Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles
  • Part IV: The Lower Jordan Valley – The Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project and its Complex History
  • Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley – The Situation Today and the Path that has led there
  • Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action
  • Jordan’s Shadow State and Water Management: Prospects for Water Security will depend on Politics and Regional Cooperation
  • Technologies, Incentives and Cost Recovery: Is there an Israeli Role Model?
  • Part V: Outlook and Options for Action
  • Lessons Learnt, Open Research Questions and Recommendations.