1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791481203321

Autore

Heshmati Almas

Titolo

Integrated water resource management in the Kurdistan region [[electronic resource] /] / Almas Heshmati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science, c2009

ISBN

1-61728-524-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Water resource planning, development and management series

Disciplina

363.6/1095667

Soggetti

Water-supply - Kurdistan - Management

Water - Purification - Kurdistan

Water - Government policy

Integrated water development - Kurdistan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE KURDISTAN REGION""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""FOREWORD BY THE MINISTER OF WATER RESOURCES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE PROJECT""; ""1.1. BACKGROUND TO THE PROBLEM""; ""1.2. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT""; ""1.3. IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROJECT""; ""1.4. ORGANIZATION OF THE PROJECT""; ""1.5. STRUCTURE OF THE REPORT""; ""REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""2.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2. THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE""

""2.3. HYDRO-POLITICS AND WATER SHARING CONFLICTS RESOLUTION""""2.3.1. Measures in Water Resource Disputes""; ""2.4. URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PRICE AND INVESTMENT POLICIES""; ""2.5. IRRIGATION EXTERNALITIES AND CONTROL MECHANISMS""; ""2.6. ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ADVANTAGES OF WASTEWATER RE-USE""; ""2.7. MODELS AND METHODS USED IN EVALUATION OF POLICIES, PRICING AND FORECASTS""; ""2.8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""A COMPARATIVE REGIONAL STUDY OF WATER RESOURCES""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""3.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""3.2. INDICATORS OF WATER RESOURCES""; ""A. Different Sectors Share of GDP""

""B. Land, Irrigation, Forest, Livestock Production and Fertilizer



Consumption""""C. Urban Population""; ""D. Electricity Production""; ""E. Tourism and Private Investment in Water""; ""F. Improved Sanitation Facilities and Water Resources""; ""G. Emissions and Organic Water Pollutants""; ""H. Industrial Sub-Sector Water Pollution""; ""3.3. SUMMARY OF THE COMPARATIVE REGIONAL STUDY""; ""KURDISTAN REGION WATER RESOURCES IN AN HISTORICAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""4.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""4.2. GROUNDWATER IN THE KURDISTAN REGION""; ""A. History and Landscape of Iraq""

""B. Groundwater in Kurdistan""""C. Benefits and Limitations of Groundwater""; ""D. The Effect of Pollution on Groundwater""; ""D.1. Decades of Wars, Destruction and Neglect""; ""D.2. Agriculture Waste and Pollution""; ""D.3. Household Waste in Both Urban and Rural Areas""; ""D.4. Industrial Waste Material""; ""4.3. SURFACE WATER IN KURDISTAN""; ""A. Historical Background""; ""B. Major Tigris Tributaries in Kurdistan""; ""B.1. Greater Zab Tributary in Hawler""; ""B.2. Lesser Zab Tributary""; ""B.3. Khabur Tributary""; ""B.4. Sirwan Tributary""; ""B.5. Awa Spy (Udhem)""

""C. Springs in Kurdistan""""C.1. Springs in Hawler Governorate""; ""C.2. Springs in Sulaimanyah Governorate""; ""C.3. Springs in Duhok Governorate""; ""D. Measuring the Flow of Water in Rivers and Springs""; ""E. Maximum and Minimum Discharge of Rivers and Springs in Kurdistan""; ""F. Average Rate of Rain and Snowfall in the Kurdistan Region Governorates""; ""4.4. DAMS AND RESERVIORS""; ""A. Historical Background of Dams in Iraq""; ""B. Dams and Reservoirs in Kurdistan Region""; ""C. The Socioeconomic Impacts of Dams""; ""D. Major Dams in the Kurdistan Region""

""E. Dams under Construction""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960288603321

Titolo

Narrative developments from Chaucer to Defoe / / edited by Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Klitgard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9786613442703

9781136821240

1136821244

9781283442701

1283442701

9780203830284

0203830288

9781136821257

1136821252

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; ; 11

Altri autori (Persone)

BayerGerd <1971->

KlitgårdEbbe

Disciplina

823/.00923

Soggetti

English fiction - History and criticism

Fiction - Technique - History

Narration (Rhetoric) - History

Literary form - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Ebbe Klitgard and Gerd Bayer -- The encoding of subjectivity in Chaucer's Wife of Baths tale and Pardoner's tale / Ebbe Klitgard -- The representation of mind from Chaucer to Aphra Behn / Monika Fludernik -- Writing selves: early modern diaries and the genesis of the novel / Miriam Nandi -- Chaucer's Parliament of fowls and his pre-text of narration / William Quinn -- From hell: a mirror for magistrates and the late Elizabethan female complaint -- Telling tales: the artistry of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Rahel Orgis -- The early English novel in Antwerp: the impact of Jan van Doesborch / Robert Maslen -- Narrative and poiesis: Defoe, Ovid, and transformative



writing / Gabrielle Starr -- The prenovel: theory and the archive / Goran Stanivukovic -- Paratext and genre: making seventeenth-century readers / Gerd Bayer -- Narrative and gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Neil Cartlidge -- Transubstantiation, transvestism, and the transformative power of Elizabethan prose fiction / Christina Wald.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer's influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose narratives. Essays focus on how a sense of selfness or subjectivity begins to establish itself in various narratives, thus providing a necessary requirement for the individuality that dominates later novels. Other contributors investigate how forms of intertextuality inscribe early modern prose within