Overview
- Offers historical information to allow to individuate the roots of the current water problems
- Presents the specific features of the water supply systems and water governance institutions in Italy and helps to understand the European directives
- Analyzes the potential drivers of change under different scenarios and offers a perspective to define some priorities for the water development in the future
Part of the book series: World Water Resources (WWR, volume 5)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Evolution of Water Management in Italy
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Water Resources and Water Demands
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Problems
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Conclusions
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About this book
This book offers a comprehensive framework of the current state of water resources in Italy and of the main stages of the evolutionary way in the last decades for achieving an integrated, sustainable and equitable water resources management. The main paradigms of water resources development are identified as: i) engineering and economic approach to water resources exploitation, ii) focus on pollution control and water-excess management, iii) a comprehensive approach toward a sustainable and equitable distribution of resources and effective risk reduction of water-related disasters.
After a section devoted to the analysis of some historic stages in the legislation framework and the governance of water and soil, with particular reference to planning, design, building and operation of water systems, two sections deal with the estimation of water resources availability on national territory and estimation of water demands in municipal, agricultural, industrial, ecosystem sectors. The complex problems that the Italian society has to solve in the water field and the main challenges of a changing world are discussed in the fourth section of the volume.The book will not only be useful for water professionals, but also for citizen who like to discern the key factors which delay the recognition of water as a resource for life. The description of the problems and adopted solutions could also serve as a guideline for similar situations encountered in other countries, improving the preparation of the responsible people.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Born in 1932, Prof. Marcello Benedini graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Padua, Italy, in 1957 and in 1968 the Ministry of Education conferred him the highest Degree of “Libera Docentia” in Hydraulics. He was Assistant Professor to the Chair of Hydraulics and responsible of an experimental Section for research in applied hydraulics at the University of Padua. In 1969 he joined the Water Research Institute of the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy, from which he formally retired in 1999, after several years of activity. His research activity started with measuring techniques in the field of theoretical and applied hydraulicsand in the development and application of large-scale hydraulic models. At the Water Research Institute he was responsible of a working team for research on advanced methods for water resources management, dealing with both surface and groundwater problems, particularly in relation to the application of Systems Analysis techniques. A senior Member of the International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), he was Chairman of the Technical Sections on “Systems Analysis” and “Methods for Water Resources Management”. During the 1990–1993 period he was member of the Board of Directors of the International Water Resources Association. He has been a founder of the European Water Resources Association and an active member in the Italian cooperation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (“IIASA”) in Laxenburg, Austria. As an expert on water problems he has been consulting engineer for the Italian Ministries of Public Works, Agriculture and Environment, for someItalian Regional administrations and for the Po River Authority. During the 2011–2014 period he was elected President of the Italian Association for Hydrotechnics. He lectured in post-graduate courses in various Universities, in Italy and abroad, also in developing countries. As an expert in water resources problems, he was Consultant to UNESCO for hydrological aspects in protection of historical sites in Jordan and Egypt. Prof. Benedini is author of several scientific contributions in journals, seminars, congresses and technical reports on water management problems, at the national and international level.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Resources of Italy
Book Subtitle: Protection, Use and Control
Editors: Giuseppe Rossi, Marcello Benedini
Series Title: World Water Resources
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36460-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36459-5Published: 18 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36462-5Published: 18 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36460-1Published: 17 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-7385
Series E-ISSN: 2509-7393
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Hydrology/Water Resources, Environmental Science and Engineering, Sustainable Development