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Water and the environment : 12-14 November 2005

Title
Water and the environment : 12-14 November 2005 / edited by Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo.
Author
Working Group on Water and the Environment (2005 : Pontifical Academy of Sciences)
Publication
Vatican City : Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio.
  • Sánchez Sorondo, Marcelo.
  • Pontificia Accademia delle scienze.
Description
xviii, 234 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm.
Series Statement
Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum scripta varia ; 108
Uniform Title
Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum scripta varia ; 108.
Alternative Title
Working Group on Water and the Environment
Subjects
Note
  • At head of title (in smaller typeface): Working Group on. Half-title, title on cover and on spine: Water and the environment.
  • "The proceedings of the Working Group, 12-14 November, 2005"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The fair distribution of water / Reza Ardakanian -- Threatened biodiversity : understanding, predicting, taking action / Marino Gatto & Renato Casagrandi -- Ecohydrological optimization of pattern and processes in water-limited ecosystems / Kelly K. Caylor, Todd M. Scanlon, Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe -- Water distribution and availability : an overview of climate change impacts on water resources / Bisher Imam & Soroosh Sorooshian -- Worldwide changes in evaporative demand / Graham Farquhar and Michael Roderick -- Impact of aerosols on the hydrological cycle / Ulrike Lohmann -- Plant hydraulic properties limit photosynthetic capacity and regeneration potential / Gabriel Katul ... [et al.] -- Precipitation suppression by anthropogenic air pollution : major loss of water resources where we need them most / Daniel Rosenfeld -- Climate and land use changes in Amazonia : impacts on the hydrological cycle and on biome distribution / Carlos A. Nobre, Gilvan Sampaio and Luis Salazar -- River basins : water and complex adaptive systems / Andrea Rinaldo -- Heading towards basin-level hydrosolidarity goal for land/water/ecosystem coordination / Malin Falkenmark -- From the physics of the small to large basin synthesis / Lucio Ubertini -- Water and the environment : concluding comments / Howard S. Wheater -- Contribution to final discussion / James Dooge -- Statement of the Workshop on Water and the Environment / Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe.
ISBN
  • 9788877610911
  • 8877610913
LCCN
2007475641
OCLC
  • ocm31845371
  • 31845371
  • SCSB-5460323
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