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Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation. This Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, involving more than 700 leading specialists, evaluates current thinking on water and its interplay with agriculture to help chart the way forward. It offers actions for water management and water policy - to ensure more equitable and effective use. This assessment describes key water-food-environment trends that influence our lives today and uses scenarios to explore the consequences of a range of potential investments. It aims to inform investors and policymakers about water and food choices in light of such crucial influences as poverty, ecosystems, governance, and productivity. It covers rainfed agriculture, irrigation, groundwater, marginal-quality water, fisheries, livestock, rice, land, and river basins. Ample tables, graphs, and references make this an invaluable work for practitioners, academics, researchers, and policymakers in water management, agriculture, conservation, and development. Published with IWMI.
This title provides tools and approaches to study the activities of the European Court of Justice. Using new primary sources and an interdisciplinary approach, this volume develops a more holistic methodology for studying law and courts, especially the Court of Justice.
"In order to face the challenge of disappointing returns on public investment in irrigation and drainage new solutions have emerged. These solutions are based on widely available technology and new management and governance options. The main message of Re-engaging in Agricultural Water Management is that the irrigation and drainage sector should not continue to be dealt with as a standalone sector, but should be integrated into a broader perspective, one that embraces the objectives of productivity growth, poverty reduction, natural resources management and environmental protection."
This book studies three interrelated frontiers in civil justice from European and national perspectives, combining theory with policy and insights from practice: the interplay between private and public justice, the digitisation of justice, and litigation funding. These current topics are viewed against the backdrop of the requirements of effective access to justice and the overall goal of establishing a sustainable civil justice system in Europe.
The aim of this paper is to facilitate the planning and design of land drainage systems for sound land and water management for engineers and other professionals. It considers the integration of technical, socio-economic and environmental factors and the need for system users' participation in the planning, design, operation and maintenance processes. The text provides guidelines for the appropriate identification of drainage problems, for the planning and design of field drainage systems (surface and subsurface) and the main drainage and disposal systems. The annexes provide more detailed information with technical background, appropriate equations, some cross-references for finding appropriate methodologies, and computer programs for calculation of extreme values, of permeability and some land drainage system parameters. --Publisher's description.
Zo'n acht procent van de totale bevolking krijgt in de loop van het leven met een fobie te maken. Het gaat dan om een extreme angst voor bijvoorbeeld een bepaald dier, een natuurverschijnsel, kleine ruimten of manieren van reizen. Ook een buitensporige angst voor medische situaties, slikken, braken, het horen van harde knallen en een angst voor (en afkeer van) bepaalde etenswaren behoren tot de (specifieke) fobieën. Ze veroorzaken veel leed en dienen serieus te worden genomen, ook al reageert de omgeving vaak met onbegrip en plagerijen. In 'Leven met een fobie' komen de oorzaken, behandelmogelijkheden en zelfhulptechnieken voor (specifieke) fobieën uitgebreid aan de orde. Op heldere wijze beschrijft de auteur de kennis over (specifieke) fobieën die er op dit moment is. Hierdoor wordt het mogelijk zo'n fobie zelf met succes te bestrijden en/of er de meest geschikte hulp voor te zoeken.