1st Edition
Water Resources of Arid Areas Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Africa, Gaborone, Botswana, 3-6 August 2004
592 Pages
by
CRC Press
588 Pages
by
CRC Press
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With Africa's water resources constantly threatened by an increasing population and the resultant rise in water demand, together with the stresses of water use for various activities, desertification, climate change, and other interventions in the water cycle by man, it is vital that the water resources in arid and semi-arid regions are developed and managed in a sustainable and integrated manner.... Read more
Preface xii Keynote address Sustainable water management in arid and semi-arid environments W.Kinzelbach, P.Bauer, P.Brunner & T.Siegfried Theme A: Problems in obtaining hydrological and geo-hydrological dataTheme B: Groundwater recharge: natural and artificialTheme C: Socio-economic aspectsTheme D: Application of geophysical, GIS, and remote sensing techniquesTheme E: Climate change and its impactTheme F: Vulnerability and riskTheme G: Water resources managementAuthor index
Biography
D Stephenson, E.M. Shemang, T.R. Chaoka
