Water and the environment
Subtitle: 12-14 November 2005
By: edited by Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
Contributors: Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio; Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo; Pontificia Accademia delle scienze
Series: Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum scripta varia -- 108
Publisher: Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Vatican City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9788877610911
Subjects: Water-supply; Congresses; Water conservation
Other titles: Working Group on Water and the Environment
Notes: At head of title (in smaller typeface): Working Group on. Half-title, title on cover and on spine: Water and the environment.

"The proceedings of the Working Group, 12-14 November, 2005"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The fair distribution of water / Reza Ardakanian; title: Threatened biodiversity : understanding, predicting, taking action / Marino Gatto & Renato Casagrandi; title: Ecohydrological optimization of pattern and processes in water-limited ecosystems / Kelly K. Caylor, Todd M. Scanlon, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe; title: Water distribution and availability : an overview of climate change impacts on water resources / Bisher Imam & Soroosh Sorooshian; title: Worldwide changes in evaporative demand / Graham Farquhar and Michael Roderick; title: Impact of aerosols on the hydrological cycle / Ulrike Lohmann; title: Plant hydraulic properties limit photosynthetic capacity and regeneration potential / Gabriel Katul ... [et al.]; title: Precipitation suppression by anthropogenic air pollution : major loss of water resources where we need them most / Daniel Rosenfeld; title: Climate and land use changes in Amazonia : impacts on the hydrological cycle and on biome distribution / Carlos A. Nobre, Gilvan Sampaio and Luis Salazar; title: River basins : water and complex adaptive systems / Andrea Rinaldo; title: Heading towards basin-level hydrosolidarity goal for land/water/ecosystem coordination / Malin Falkenmark; title: From the physics of the small to large basin synthesis / Lucio Ubertini; title: Water and the environment : concluding comments / Howard S. Wheater; title: Contribution to final discussion / James Dooge; title: Statement of the Workshop on Water and the Environment / Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe.