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 t...
| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham
Springer Nature
2016
Cham : 2016. |
| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Colección: | Water Resources Development and Management,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430241506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
