Sustainable Water and Soil Management
By: edited by Sabine Kunst, Tanja Kruse, Andrea Burmester
Contributors: Kruse, Tanja; Burmester, Andrea
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9783642593901
Description: This book offers an overview on the perspectives of countries in which the question of water resources will be one of the most explosive topics in the next decades. Focal points include: technical and social aspects of water management, wastewater treatment, water distribution, and health and sanitation. Moreover, possible solutions for problems of wastewater treatment in rural areas are demonstrated, exemplary strategies to harvest rainwater are explained, a river development plan is presented and sustainable landuse is defined.
Table of contents: title: From the contents: Gendersensitive, Participatory Approach of Water and Soil Management; title: Aspects of Water and Soil Management; title: Index.