water resources
Global warming is likely to lead to a variety of changes in local climatic conditions, including potential increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events such as drought, floods, and storms. Present capacity to respond to and manage climatic variability, including extreme events, is an important component of adjustments to climatic changes. In particular, identifying...
M-POWER—the Mekong Program in Water, Environment and Resilience—is a programme of action research that aims to improve the quality of water governance in ways that support sustainable livelihoods in the Mekong Region. The acronym is a play on the verb “empower,” as this is an apt one-word description of motivation for engaging in action research about governance with a...
The author has provided a major compilation of data relating to all aspects of watershed functioning and management in the middle mountains of Nepal. This includes climatological, hydrological, soil science, sediment transfer, and socio economic data. It embraces is own research during a 5-year secondment to ICIMOD together ith the accumulation of a vast array of data from across the entire...
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is one of the great intellectual powerhouses of thought about water management. This book is an edited volume written largely by researchers associated with IWMI.
Case studies come from France, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, Vietnam and the USA.
Water scarcity is a major issue in rural watersheds in the Middle Mountains of Nepal and in the entire Hindu Kush–Himalaya region. Dense population and heavy dependence on irrigated agriculture place immense pressure on available water resources, which have a distinct seasonality. New forms of management based on traditional and scientific knowledge must be introduced to solve problems...
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