Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management by Hunt, Constance Elizabeth

Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781842772430)

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Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management by Hunt, Constance Elizabeth

Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management

$47.95
Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management by Hunt, Constance Elizabeth

Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management

$47.95
Format: Paperback
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By the year 2025 nearly 2 billion people will live in regions experiencing absolute water scarcity. In the face of this emerging crisis, how should the planet's water be used and managed? Current international policy sees nature competing with human uses of water. Hunt takes issue with this perspective. She suggests that nature is the source of water and only by making the conservation of nature an absolute priority will we have the water we need for human use in future. It is essential, therefore, to manage water in ways that maintain the water cycle and the ecosystems that support it.

This book looks at the complexity of the problem. It provides a wide array of ideas, information, case studies and ecological knowledge - often from remote corners of the developing world -- that could provide an alternative vision for water use and management at this critical time.

Essential and compelling reading for students on courses related to water resource management and development; water managers and decision makers, and non-specialists with an interest in global water issues.

Author: Constance Elizabeth Hunt
ISBN-10: 1842772430
ISBN-13: 9781842772430
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.22w x 0.78d

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Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 878
By Constance Elizabeth Hunt
By Constance Elizabeth Hunt
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Constance Hunt is a biologist and environmentalist with considerable experience in international policy and global campaigns for water management and conservation. She is the recipient of awards from the National Research Council, US Department of Agriculture and US Army Corps of Engineers for outstanding work in the field of water resources management.
Constance Hunt is a biologist and environmentalist with considerable experience in international policy and global campaigns for water management and conservation. She is the recipient of awards from the National Research Council, US Department of Agriculture and US Army Corps of Engineers for outstanding work in the field of water resources management.

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