Gestión Integrada de Los Recursos Hídricos en Las Américas
Author: María Pilar Cornejo R. de Grunauer
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
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Applying the Ecosystem Approach in Latin America
Author: World Conservation Union
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 2831710685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation of: Aplicacion del enfoque ecosistemico en Latinoamerica. 2007.
IICA and the Americas : a successful partnership
Author: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Publisher: IICA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789290396758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWater and Cities in Latin America
Author: Ismael Aguilar-Barajas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-08
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1317906888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.
Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America
Author: Asit K. Biswas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1317989856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been assumed explicitly to be "the" solution for managing the limited water resources of the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in promoting IWRM in developing countries. However, no serious and objective analysis has ever been undertaken as to whether IWRM has made water management more efficient and equitable in any region of the world than otherwise may have been the case. This pioneering analysis indicates that IWRM has not only been unsuccessful in Latin America, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. The reasons and constraints for this failure are outlined. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability
Author: Ray C. Anderson
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing Group
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1933782730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability provides extensive coverage of sustainability practices in two regions linked culturally and historically by their relative isolation before the Columbian exchange, by their colonization after it, and by the challenges of pollution, resource overuse, and environmental degradation. Regional experts and international scholars focus on environmental history in areas such as the South Pacific islands, now particularly threatened by rising ocean levels due to climate change, and on countries whose governments and corporations can play a major role in promoting or discouraging sustainable choices: Brazil, an emergent power on the world stage; the United States, the world's third most populous nation; and New Zealand, seemingly on its way to becoming an enviable model of sustainable development.
SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region
Author: Walter Leal Filho
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-08-31
Total Pages: 1692
ISBN-13: 3031160177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an overview of the ways sustainable development issues as a whole, and the SDGs in particular, are perceived and practiced in a variety of countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It also discusses the extent to which its many socio-economic problems hinder progresses towards the pursuit of a sustainable future, and documents successful experiences from across the region. This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".
OECD Studies on Water Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean A Multi-level Approach
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-11-21
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9264174540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report addresses multilevel governance challenges in water policy in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) and identifies good practices for co-ordinating water across ministries, between levels of government, and across local and regional actors.
Water and Territory in Latin America
Author: Vladimir Arana
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-05-28
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 3319303430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses in the current situation of water resources, water supply and sanitation, and population movement in Latin America. It identifies new phenomena and challenges that will put more pressure on water resources in the near future and that will create important socioeconomic constraints in population and their governments. This volume offers an evaluation of water resources availability and consumption, water supply and sanitation shortages, management models and population growth and territory occupation trends in eighteen Latin American countries. Also a set of recommendations, policy proposals and projects is outlined.
Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Bárbara A. Willaarts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-24
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1134682875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Although the book takes a regional approach, covering a vast of data pertaining to most of the LAC region, some chapters focus on seven countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru). A full understanding of LAC’s trends progress requires framing this region in the global context: an ever more globalized world where LAC has an increasing geopolitical power and a growing presence in international food markets. The book’s specific objectives are: (1) exploring the improvements and links between water and food security in LAC countries; (2) assessing the role of the socio-economic ‘megatrends’ in LAC, identifying feedback processes between the region’s observed pattern of changes regarding key biophysical, economic and social variables linked to water and food security; and (3) reviewing the critical changes that are taking place in the institutional and governance water spheres, including the role of civil society, which may represent a promising means to advancing towards the goal of improving water security in LAC. The resulting picture shows a region where recent socioeconomic development has led to important advances in the domains of food and water security. Economic growth in LAC and its increasingly important role in international trade are intense in terms of use of natural resources such as land, water and energy. This poses new and important challenges for sustainable development. The reinforcement of national and global governance schemes and their alignment on the improvement of human well-being is and will remain an inescapable prerequisite to the achievement of long-lasting security. Supporting this bold idea with facts and science-based conclusions is the ultimate goal of the book.
