Data Sharing for International Water Resource Management: Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS
By: edited by Thomas Naff
Series: NATO Science Series, 2. Environmental Security -- 61; NATO Science Series, 2. Environmental Security -- 61
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789048153046; 9789401712095
Subjects: Geography; Environmental management; Data structures (Computer science); Hydraulic engineering
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Managing Environmental Degradation: Dialogue, Cooperation, Data Sharing, Budapest, Hungary, 27-31 August 1997
Description: This book deals with the vitally important issues of data, data sharing and data management. Sharing data and information enables people to think together in solving problems, in building the trust that is essential for co-operative efforts at sustaining shared vital natural resources, and in avoiding conflict. It is axiomatic that all planning and policy making, not least for environmental and resource sustainability, depend for their success on accurate data and information, dispensed freely to all who need it, from farmers to heads of state. These maxims are especially apt when applied to water resources that are international and trans-boundary. In such circumstances, the need to co-operate and share are acute if the water resource is to be managed, distributed and used equitably and efficiently.
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