Introduction and Guide to the Handbook of Water Resources Management: Discourses, Concepts and Examples.- Water a unique phenomenon and resource.- Water and its Management: Dependence, Linkages and Challenges.- A drop in the ocean: on writing histories of water resource management.- Water Ethics.- Water law and rights.- Water discourses.- The water security discourse and its main actors.- Water governance and policies.- Economics of water security.- Drivers, pressures and stressors: the societal framework of water resources management.- Water resources management: integrated and adaptive decision making.- Observation, monitoring and data management.- Assessment of water quantity.- Assessment of land/catchment use and degradation.- Freshwaters: global distribution, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and human pressures.- Water, energy and food relations in Gulf Cooperation Council.- Examples of water resources management options.- Examples of water and land use management.- Water and energy.- Water management and stewardship in mining regions.- Water-related hazard and risk management.- Groundwater and conjunctive use management.- Storage Reservoir Operation and Management.- Complexity in water management and governance.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Janos J. Bogardi has been the Director of
the United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human
Security (UNU-EHS) since 2003. Simultaneously he is also
Vice-Rector a.i. of the Vice Rectorate in Europe since May 2007.
Prof. Bogardi started his professional career as Assistant
Professor at the Institute for Water Resources Management of the
Technical University of Budapest. Shortly after having relocated to
Germany, he became part of the scientific staff in the Federal
Institute for Hydraulic Engineering in Karlsruhe, and the
University of Karlsruhe, respectively. Between 1971-1973 and
1983-1985 he worked as a consulting engineer amongst others in
Africa. He was then seconded by the German Agency for Technical
Co-operation (GTZ) to the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in
Bangkok, Thailand, between 1985 and 1988. For the next almost seven
years he worked as professor for Hydraulics, and quantitative Water
Resource Management at the Agricultural University of Wageningen,
the Netherlands. Janos Bogardi started his UN career in 1995 with
the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) in Paris, France, as a Senior Programme Specialist and
soon became the Chief of the Section on Sustainable Water Resources
and Management.
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