Overview
- Discusses water infrastructure challenges at the basin, national and regional levels, including those related to governance (policies, institutions, and decision
- Highlights technical and knowledge generation, constraints and limitations, and the economic,
- Written by leading authorities/experts in the fields addressed in the case studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Cecilia Tortajada is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. The main focus of her work at present is on the future of the world´s water, especially in terms of water, food, energy and environmental securities through coordinated policies. She has been an advisor to major international institutions like FAO, UNDP, JICA, ADB, OECD, IDRC and GIZ, and has worked in countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe on water and natural resources and environment-related policies. She is member of the OECD Initiative in Water Governance.
She is a past President of the International Water Resources Association (2007-2009) and an honorary member of the IWRA. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Water Resources Development and Editor of book series on Water Resources Development and Management of Springer. She is also editor of Springer Briefs on Case Studies on Sustainable Development and on Water Science and Technology; and member of series Advisory Board of Springer Briefs in Earth Sciences, Geography & Earth System Sciences. She is the author and editor of more than 30 books by major international publishers. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change
Book Subtitle: The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation
Editors: Cecilia Tortajada
Series Title: Water Resources Development and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1914-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1913-5Published: 25 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9476-7Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1914-2Published: 18 August 2016
Series ISSN: 1614-810X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-316X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Sustainable Development, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change Management and Policy