Water Security to Climate Change and Human Activity in East Asia and Pacific Region

Author: Xian Jun and Liu Suxia
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9787502944971
Published on: 2008-01
Paperback

This book addresses water security issue to climate change and human activity in East Asia and Pacific Region in the framework of Inter-Academy Panel (IAP) Water Programme. Three key issues, namely climate change and water resources, ecosystem and environmental flow, and water resources sustainable management, are introduced and researched by several case studies in East Asia and Pacific Region. This is also one of regional contributions of IAP water programme in 2006 Being Workshop

I.Climate Change and Water Resources
Variation of Temperature and Precipitation Extremes in the Yangtze River Basin from 1960 to 2004
China and New Zealand: Large Seasonal Pumped Storage Schemes for Wind Power and Small Hydro-Systems
Long – term Trend Analysis for Annual Runoff on the Shiyang River Basin
II.Ecosystem and Environmental Flow
A New Hydraulic Rating Method and Its Application in Setting Minimum Ecological Instreaming Flow Requirements for WesternRoute South – to - North Water Transfer Project in China
Development of Sustainable Sanitation System and Its Implementaion to Asian Countries: Interdisciplinary Research Project
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III.Water Resources Sustainable Managemnet
Vulnerability of Chinese Farmers to Water shortage: Choosing Social Institutions for Water Management
Integrated Water Resources Management in Malaysia-Challenges and Progresses
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