Sustainable Development and Water Resource Scarcity

Resource scarcity, fair shares and development

A WWF/Oxfam discussion paper-Alex Evans Purpose This discussion paper is intended to contribute to the evolving debate on the links between resource scarcity and international development, in particular by focusing on the issues of equity and " fair shares " for poor people and poor countries that arise in the context of resource limits and environmental boundaries. It provides a short overview...

Sustainable Resource Use & Sustainable Development: a Contradiction?!

The concept of ‘sustainability’ has become the current answer to absolving the world of its environmental and economic crises in the 21 century. Since its conceptualisation, there has been a barrage of investigations and literature on the vagueness and ambiguity of its definition and applicability. There are two main opposing schools of thought the pessimists, usually ecologists and other scien...

Investment Methods in Sustainable Water Resource Management Using SAW Method

Limits and sustainable interaction design: Obsolescence in a future of collapse and resource scarcity

Electronic waste, caused by the advancements of technology and its rapidly increasing obsolescence, represents a major threat to environmental sustainability. Research in Sustainable HCI has proposed a variety of solutions to tackle this issue, but has yet to create a major impact in product design. While currently industry’s goals are opposed to research’s concepts of addressing obsolescence, ...

Sustainable water resource management under hydrological uncertainty

[1] A proper understanding of the sources and effects of uncertainty is needed to achieve the goals of reliability and sustainability in water resource management and planning. Many studies have focused on uncertainties relating to climate inputs (e.g., precipitation and temperature), as well as those related to supply and demand relationships. In the end-to-end projection of the hydrological i...