Overview
- Is a “one-stop” guide to the latest findings on ecosystem services in the urban water sector
- Provides a case study of watershed investment for water security and rural poverty alleviation
- Offers an effective tool for capacity building that will benefit various stakeholders in the urban water sector
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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About this book
The book addresses the challenges of urban water security and adaptive management in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring and interlinking novel concepts of ecosystems services, watershed investments, and boundary work. Specifically, the book’s goals are to (i) present a conceptual framework for the urban water sector from an ecosystem services perspective, highlighting the specificities of the Sub-Saharan context; (ii) develop an operational approach to designing and assessing the impacts of watershed investments, based on ecosystem services and boundary work; and (iii) test the approach through a case study in Asmara, Eritrea, and discuss the findings and lessons learned that can be applied in other contexts.
Through a fully worked out case study, from identification of water challenges and opportunities to spatially explicit modelling, the book offers a sound and accessible, coverage of issues and proposed solutions to better operationalize ecosystem services, watershed investments and boundary work, to promote adaptive management, and achieve water security in the context of rapidly developing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book is an effective tool for capacity building of diverse stakeholders on the urban water sector, including water managers, local and national policy-makers as well as a suitable resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in planning and geography.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Services for Urban Water Security
Book Subtitle: Concepts and Applications in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Blal Adem Esmail, Davide Geneletti
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45666-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45665-8Published: 09 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45666-5Published: 08 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-4165
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 80
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Science and Engineering, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution