Grow in concert with nature [[electronic resource] ] : sustaining East Asia's water resources management through green water defense / / Xiaokai Li, Graeme Turner, and Liping Jiang
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Li Xiaokai
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| Titolo: |
Grow in concert with nature [[electronic resource] ] : sustaining East Asia's water resources management through green water defense / / Xiaokai Li, Graeme Turner, and Liping Jiang
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington D.C., : World Bank, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (112 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.910095 |
| Soggetto topico: | Water resources development - East Asia |
| Water-supply - Management - East Asia | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
TurnerGraeme
JiangLiping
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgement -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- Introduction -- Status of water resources in East Asia -- Defining the green water defense approach -- Selected country case studies of best practices -- General conclusions and recommendations -- Building on the best practices : towards a roadmap for East Asia -- References -- Appendix: country case study - Victoria, Australia -- Box 1: Water planning in Australia -- Box 2: Victorian water planning framework -- Box 3. Water sharing rules -- Box 4: Victorian (Australia) water register -- Box 5: Northern Victoria irrigation renewal project (NVIRP) : modernizing the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Water scarcity is increasingly becoming a threat to water security in different countries or areas of East Asia, driven by water over-withdrawal and pollution, and aggravated by climate change and variability. The 'Green Water Defense in East Asia' study, as part of the driver for green growth in the water sector of East Asia region, seeks to find a sustainable solution to this challenge. The concept of Green Water Defense (GWD) is developed building on such principles as 'live and build with nature', 'green adaptation', 'produce more with less' and 'low impact development', etc. It is defined |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Grow in concert with nature |
| ISBN: | 1-280-87858-4 |
| 9786613719898 | |
| 0-8213-9597-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461839803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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World Bank Studies