Water Resources in Mexico
Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy
Editors: Oswald Spring, Úrsula (Ed.)
Free Preview- Focuses on the particular problems and challenges of Mexican water resources
- Offers a multidisciplinary and multi-instutional perspective
- Explores the effect of water quality, scarcity and climate change on health and ecosystems
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Water resources in Mexico are threatened by scarcity, pollution and climate change. In two decades water consumption doubled, producing water stress in dry seasons and semi-arid and arid regions. Water stress rises due to physical and economic stress. In seven parts a multidisciplinary team analyzes hydrological processes in basins and their interaction with climate, soil and biota. Competing water use in agriculture, industry and domestic needs require savings, decontamination processes and desalination to satisfy the growing demand. Water quality affects health and ecosystems. This creates conflicts and cooperation that may be enhanced by public policy, institution building and social organization.
- Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Water Resources in Mexico: A Conceptual Introduction
Pages 3-17
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Mexico’s Water Challenges for the 21st Century
Pages 21-38
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Integrated Water Management in Hydrological Basins:Multidisciplinary and Multi-Institutionality as an Action Paradigm
Pages 39-49
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Analysis of Weather Time Series for Decision-making in Mexico
Pages 51-71
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Coastal Aquifers of Sonora: Hydrogeological Analysis Maintaining a Sustainable Equilibrium
Pages 73-85
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Water Resources in Mexico
- Book Subtitle
- Scarcity, Degradation, Stress, Conflicts, Management, and Policy
- Editors
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- Úrsula Oswald Spring
- Series Title
- Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
- Series Volume
- 7
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-05432-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-05432-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-05431-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-27130-4
- Series ISSN
- 1865-5793
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXX, 530
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