
Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change
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Key Features
- Covers a wide range of theoretical and practical issues related to how climate change impacts water resources and adaptation, with extended influence on agriculture, food and water security, policymaking, etc.
- Reviews mathematical tools and simulations models on predicting potential hazards from climate change in such a way they can be useful to readers from a variety of levels of mathematical expertise
- Examines the potential impacts on agriculture and drinking water quality
- Includes case studies of successful management of water and pollutants that contribute to climate change
Readership
Researchers and professionals in Climate Change and Climate Services including environmental science, water resources, environmental engineering
Table of Contents
1. Climatic and Environmental Impact on Water Resources and Conservation
2. Climate change impact and water resources management: prospective and challenges in present era
3. Policy to combat issues on climate change and water scarcity and quality degradation: regional, national and international
4. Impact of climate change and water quality degradation on food security, agriculture and fisheries
5. Climate change, sustainable agriculture and water resources
6. Indirect effects of climate change on the water cycle: migration and changing patterns of consumption
7. Possible futures for climate change and water nexus in the coming centuries
8. Probabilistic software models and mathematical simulations to predict the effects of climate change on water quality and vice versa
9. Groundwater Extractions and Global Climate Change
10. Urban water supply management: indirect issues of climate change leading to water scarcity scenarios in developing and under developing nations
11. Managing hydropower in an era of climate change
12. Water renovation and reuse strategies
13. Impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystem
14. The global socio-economic issues due to climate change and consequent usable water resources depletion
15. Water policies and climate change
16. Going local and basic approach: possible dialogue on climate change and water conservation
17. Impacts of climate change on water quality and its assessment
18. Climate change and water conservation impacts in developing countries
19. Scientific and technical analysis on impacts, adaptations and mitigation of climate change and water
Product details
- No. of pages: 472
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: February 25, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128202005
- eBook ISBN: 9780128203941
About the Editors
Binota Thokchom
Affiliations and Expertise
Pengpeng Qiu
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Pardeep Singh
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Parameswar Iyer
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