نتایج جستجو برای: common pool water resources

تعداد نتایج: 1471491  

2003
L. R. Izquierdo

This paper describes a spatially-explicit agent-based model of river basin land use and water management. The model is being implemented within a project aimed at investigating ways of synthesising stakeholder priorities, taking the EU Water Framework Directive as a case study. There are many human activities that take place in a river basin and can alter the ecological status of the water, and...

2017
Kimberly J Quesnel Newsha K Ajami

Public awareness of water- and drought-related issues is an important yet relatively unexplored component of water use behavior. To examine this relationship, we first quantified news media coverage of drought in California from 2005 to 2015, a period with two distinct droughts; the later drought received unprecedentedly high media coverage, whereas the earlier drought did not, as the United St...

2004
C. Robert Reiss

Development of one or more large-scale seawater desalination plants in the State of Texas will provide a sustainable source of drinking water and represents a key component of alternative water resources planning for the future. Planning and implementation of a seawater desalination plant represents a significant infrastructure project and requires positive action in the areas of funding, envir...

Journal: :Ambio 2004
Ana Cristina Mugetti Alberto Tomás Calcagno Carlos Alberto Brieva María Silvia Giangiobbe Andrea Pagani Silvia Gonzalez

This paper describes the environmental characteristics and situation of aquatic habitats and communities in southern continental and maritime areas of southeastern South America (Patagonian Shelf GIWA Subregion), resulting from an overall assessment carried out within the framework of a GIWA project, mostly on the basis of publicly available data. The main focus of the analysis was on the curre...

Journal: :The Journal of Environment & Development 2022

Water scarcity in Narok county, Kenya may be attributed to demographic pressures, land-use changes, environmental degradation and the effects of climate change. This article combines methodologies from history political science investigate how local communities cope with water scarcity. In so doing, we consider institutions, both indigenous modern, mitigate conflict over access control sources....

Journal: :Ambio 2012
Otto Klemm Robert S Schemenauer Anne Lummerich Pilar Cereceda Victoria Marzol David Corell Johan van Heerden Dirk Reinhard Tseggai Gherezghiher Jana Olivier Pablo Osses Jamal Sarsour Ernst Frost María J Estrela José A Valiente Gebregiorgis Mussie Fessehaye

The collection of fog water is a simple and sustainable technology to obtain fresh water for afforestation, gardening, and as a drinking water source for human and animal consumption. In regions where fresh water is sparse and fog frequently occurs, it is feasible to set up a passive mesh system for fog water collection. The mesh is directly exposed to the atmosphere, and the foggy air is pushe...

2012
N. B. Narasimha Prasad

One of the main problems experienced by the islanders of Lakshadweep is associated with the availability of fresh water for drinking purpose. The scarcity of fresh water is due to the peculiar hydrologic, geologic, geomorphic and demographic features. Proper understanding of the groundwater condition, in terms of availability, distribution and quality, is very important to meet the increasing d...

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