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Towards Water Secure Societies

Coping with Water Scarcity and Quality Challenges

  • A "must" for water researchers

  • Provides transdisciplinary contributions focusing on authors and actors from the global south

  • Assists different groups of stakeholders (e.g. professionals, practitioners, and policymakers) and enhances water security

  • Takes into account the SDGs perspective and offers policy-relevant responses related to water security and climate change

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Justyna Sycz, Lars Ribbe
    Pages 1-10
  3. Water Security Assessment for the Red River Basin, Vietnam

    • Nguyen Mai Dang, Vu Thanh Tu, Mukand Babel, Victor Shinde, Devesh Sharma
    Pages 11-28
  4. Evaluation of Wastewater Treatment-via-Dilution for Tala Drain, Nile Delta, Egypt

    • A. A. Hassan, A. Nada, M. Elshemy, B. A. Zeidan
    Pages 63-77
  5. How Membrane Bioreactor Technology Can Help to Solve Both, German and Russian Wastewater Problems

    • Frank Rögener, Sven Theus, Alexander Chusov, Julia Lednova
    Pages 89-100
  6. Responses to Water Scarcity Considering Social Determinants: Groundnut Farmers in the Lawra and Nandom Districts, Ghana

    • Abdul Rauf Zanya Salifu, Elaine T. Lawson, Charlotte Wrigley-Asante
    Pages 109-123
  7. Temporal Climate Variability and Staple Cereals in Southern Burkina Faso

    • Mwenda Borona, Cheikh Mbow, Issa Ouedraogo
    Pages 125-140
  8. Farmers Perception and Salinity Driven Fresh Water Scarcity in Coastal Bangladesh

    • Md. Arman Habib, M. Tauhid Ur Rahman, Jannatul Ferdous, Md. Maruful Hoque, Md. Rasheduzzaman
    Pages 173-182
  9. Remote Sensing for Monitoring Suspended Sediment Concentration in the Lower Ganges (Padma) River

    • Mashrekur Rahman, G. M. Tarekul Islam, Md. Munsur Rahman
    Pages 183-196
  10. Conclusion

    • Justyna Sycz
    Pages 197-200

About this book

This book describes the water security challenges with focus on water scarcity and quality in our rapidly changing world. Achieving water security is essential to promoting economic and social development, as well as resource sustainability and ecosystem integrity. Questions of water security are central to recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

 The thematic areas discussed here support the SDGs, with special attention to Goal 6 (“Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation”). The book  is a collection of studies from engineering, social and environmental disciplines and aims at giving a balanced overview of  the current , complex discourse on water scarcity and quality.

It offers a source of inspiration and information for researchers, policymakers, planners, and practitioners concerning the further development of concepts, approaches, and methodologies for promoting water secure societies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • TH Köln, Cologne, Germany

    Lars Ribbe, Sudeh Dehnavi

  • TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Andreas Haarstrick

  • Water Engineering and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand

    Mukand Babel

  • University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    H. K. Biesalski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Towards Water Secure Societies

  • Book Subtitle: Coping with Water Scarcity and Quality Challenges

  • Editors: Lars Ribbe, Andreas Haarstrick, Mukand Babel, Sudeh Dehnavi, H. K. Biesalski

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50653-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50652-0Published: 18 August 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50655-1Published: 19 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50653-7Published: 17 August 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Water, general, Environment, general, Pollution, general

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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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