Waters of Brazil : Strategic Analysis / / edited by Carlos Eduardo de Mattos Bicudo, José Galizia Tundisi, Marcos Cortesão Barnsley Scheuenstuhl

• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2017.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 191 p. 46 illus., 32 illus. in color.)
• Disciplina: 363.7394; 363.73946
• Soggetto topico: Water - Pollution; Ecology; Agriculture; Water quality; Hydrology; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Water Quality/Water Pollution; Hydrology/Water Resources
• Persona (resp. second.): de Mattos BicudoCarlos Eduardo; Galizia TundisiJosé; Cortesão Barnsley ScheuenstuhlMarcos
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Management of water resources and irrigated agriculture in Brazil -- 2. Water and health: global and national aspects -- 3. Water and economy -- 4. Conservation and reuse as management instruments to attenuate the industrial water use charging costs -- 5. Water in the Brazilian semiarid region -- 6. Amazonia: water resources and sustainability -- 7. Urbanization and water resources -- 8. Education for water resources sustainability -- 9. Subterranean water: strategic reserve or emergential -- 10. Water availability, pollution and eutrophication -- 11. Science, technology, innovation and water resources: future opportunities -- 12. Climate changes and water resources -- 13. Synthesis.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue. The water cycle was addressed based on an integrated point of view, aiming at joining technological and ecological solutions and integrating quantitative and qualitative aspects of this important environmental asset. Issues such as the water resources management and irrigated agriculture, water and health, water and economy, conservation and reuse as management tools, water in the Brazilian semi arid, water in Amazon, urbanization and water resources, education for the sustainability of water resources, groundwater, availability, pollution and eutrophication of water and science, technology and innovation are of the utmost importance for this exact moment in Brazil, and particularly to the State of Sao Paulo. Addressing these issues will undoubtedly contribute towards a sustainable management of water resources trough the coordinated work of different fields of science, progressing a systemic view about water, that would then finally allow management professionals the possibility of an integral action in anticipating problems and thus anticipate solutions. .
• Titolo autorizzato: Waters of Brazil
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910254016303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II