Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6748-8
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This book addresses the major challenges in assuring globally sustainable water use. Paradoxically, water resources have been identified both as too plentiful, producing major disasters, and increasingly vulnerable to shortages. Addressing both of these aspects requires attention to physical hydrological processes as well as human activities that affect water supply and demand.
Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, adaptation, climate change, environment, environmental change, water supply, Environment, general, Hydrology, Water Resources, Climate Change, Regional and Cultural Studies
