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  • ADVANCES IN GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE
    KAREN G. VILLHOLTH, ELENA LÓPEZ-GUNN, KIRSTIN I. CONTI, ALBERTO GARRIDO AND JAC VAN DER GUN
    This book addresses groundwater governance, a subject internationally recognized as crucial and topical for enhancing and safeguarding the benefits of groundwater and groundwater-dependent ecosystems to humanity, while ensuring water and food security under global change. The multiple and complex dimensions of groundwater governance are captured in 28 chapters, written by a tea...

    $1,599.00

  • WATER FOR THE AMERICAS
    ALBERTO GARRIDO
    The chapters in this volume are peer reviewed editions of the papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 15-17, 2010. The theme for Forum VII was Water for the Americas: Challenges and Opportunities. This Forum was unique in examining the water problems of the Americas and identi...

    $1,099.00

  • WATER FOR FOOD IN A CHANGING WORLD
    GARRIDO, ALBERTO / INGRAM, HELEN
    There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us. Water supply bubbles are bursting in China, the Middle East and India with potentially serious implications for the global economy and for political stability. Even the United States is depleting groundwater on average 25% faster than it is being replenished. Our thirst for water grow...

    $1,399.00

  • MANAGING WATER RESOURCES IN A TIME OF GLOBAL CHANGE
    GARRIDO, ALBERTO / DINAR, ARIEL
    Global change possesses serious challenges for water managers and scientists. In mountain areas, where water supplies for half of the world population originate, climate and hydrologic models are still subject to considerable uncertainty. And yet, critical decisions have to be taken to ensure adequate and safe water supplies to billions of people, millions of farmers and indust...

    $1,179.00

  • AGRICULTURAL MARKETS INSTABILITY
    ALBERTO GARRIDO
    Since the financial and food price crises of 2007, market instability has been a topic of major concern to agricultural economists and policy professionals. This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term implications of volatility and its impacts on food chains and consumers.  The book explores whi...

    $1,139.00