Water Security and Governance in Catchments

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Environmental science, engineering and technology; History of engineering and technology; Technology: general issues; Azraq Basin; Bangladesh; bank stabilisation; climate resilience; drinking water; drought; E. coli; environmental monitoring; flood; flood protection; flow; good governance; governance; groundwater; hydroelectric power; hydrologic cycle; Iberian Bio-monitoring Working Party index; integrated river basin management; irrigation management; land change; land use; machine learning; n/a; oasis irrigation district; percolation; physicochemical parameters; precipitation; research gap; restoration; rice; riparian forest quality; riverbank erosion; scale effects; socio-environmental impacts; stability evaluation; suitable scale; surface water; SWAT model; TMDL; transport planning; vegetation revetment; water availability; water discharge; water governance; water management; water quality; water quality management; water reuse; water security; water strategy
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036541099; 9783036541105; books978-3-0365-4109-9
• Access: Open Access

This book addresses several issues on water security and governance, helping readers to understand how the desire for water-secure basins can be accomplished through an interplay of water security, water resources management and water policies. The book contains a collection of 12 papers addressing specific as well as interlinked topics within the Special Issue scope. The editors are grateful to all contributors who made the book a reality.