Water and Climate Change

Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-323-99875-8
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Politics and Social Issues focuses on climate change and global warming, sustainable development and social and political issues surrounding water. Throughout the book, global contributors provide an outlook on the possible future of the world if climate issues continue to increase. In this regard, readers will become fully aware of the dangers of climate change and global warming. To counterbalance, the book also provides an outlook to the possible future of the world if changes are made and emissions are reduced.

Water shortages and water pollution are real and are beginning to affect the lives of every one of us on the planet. We are rapidly reaching a point of no return. If we do nothing about water shortages and water pollution, many of the catastrophes mentioned in this book will come to pass. As such, this reference is a must-read resource for environmental scientists and engineers, water resource experts, agriculturalists, social scientists, earth scientists, geographers and decision-makers in government and water management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Letcher, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction: Water, the vital chemical 2. Climate Change and Water 3. Biogeochemical cycling and climate change 4. Global water usage and scarcity 5. Global agricultural water scarcity

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 6 Water quality engineering: Physical, chemical and biological treatment 7. Adaption of Water Resources under Changing Conditions of Climate Change 8. Economics of Water Resources: Planning for an uncertain climate future 9. Filling underground aquifers try 10. Global Potential for Waste Water 11. Nature-based solutions for water resource management in the urban fringe 12.Sustainable Water Management with a focus on climate change 13. Water Purification for developing countries 14. Sea water and reverse osmosis 15. The Food-Energy-Water Nexus in times of climate change 16.Ground water salinity 17.Urban water supplies in developed countries with a focus on climate change 18.Urban water supplies in developing countries, with a focus on climate change

SOCIAL ISSUES 19. Ground water, drought and human activities related to water usage, with a focus on climate change 20.  Environmental impact on global water resources and poverty, with a focus on climate change 21. Dams and Social development 22. Water wars with a focus on climate change 23.  Urban water supplies in developed and undeveloped countries, with a focus on climate change 24.Inequality in access to water sanitation and hygiene: WHO/UNICEF project 25. Water pollution and disease, with a focus on climate change 26.  Agricultural water pollution by farmers with a focus on climate change 27.  Gender Perspective of water use in the context of Climate Change 28.  Global Water, Sanitation and hygiene priorities, with a focus on climate change 29. Waste pollution in oceans and waterways as a result of poor waste disposal

POLITICAL ISSUES 29. The politics of water with a focus on climate change 30.Water - conflict to cooperation 31. Planning water resources for agriculture in developing counties with a focus on climate change 32. Water Diplomacy, with a focus on climate change 33. Human Rights and water with a focus on climate change

Über Autor(innen)

Letcher, Trevor
Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.