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Water in southern Africa / a report by SADC - Southern African Development Community, IUCN - the World Conservation Union, and SARDC - Southern African Research & Documentation Centre ; editors, Munyaradzi Chenje, Phyllis Johnson ; writers, Munyaradzi Chenje ... [et al.].
- Title
- Water in southern Africa / a report by SADC - Southern African Development Community, IUCN - the World Conservation Union, and SARDC - Southern African Research & Documentation Centre ; editors, Munyaradzi Chenje, Phyllis Johnson ; writers, Munyaradzi Chenje ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Maseru, Lesotho : SADC, Environment and Land Management Sector Coordination Unit ; Harare, Zimbabwe : IUCN, Regional Office for Southern Africa : SARDC, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Chenje, Munyaradzi
- Johnson, Phyllis
- Southern African Development Community
- International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
- Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
- SADC Environment and Land Management Sector. Coordination Unit
- IUCN Regional Office for Southern Africa
- Communicating the Environment Programme
- Description
- xviii, 238 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Hydrology > Africa, Southern
- Note
- "Communicating the Environment Programme ..."
- "Available in book form in English (1996) with a forthcoming summary in Portuguese (1998) and soon to be available on disc as a PC information product"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- REGIONAL OVERVIEW PEOPLE AND WATER: Water availability and distribution -- Traditional water uses and management -- Population -- Women and water -- Poverty -- Economic development -- Environmental impact issues -- Sustainable development -- CLIMATE AND WATER AVAILABILITY: Climatic factors -- Drought -- Availability of water -- WATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Ecological zones -- Wetlands -- Water and biological diversity in SADC -- MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES: Checks and balances -- Consumptive uses -- Non-consumptive uses -- Water supply management -- Water demand management -- Legal aspects -- MANAGEMENT OF LIVING AQUATIC RESOURCES: Freshwater resources -- Resource management -- Marine resources -- Strategies for the future -- WATER POLLUTION AND MANAGEMENT: Sources and effects of water pollution -- Water weeds -- Agro-chemicals -- Household pollution sources -- Sedimentation -- Salinisation -- Erosion and siltation -- Management, policies and strategies -- REGIONAL INITIATIVES AND COOPERATION: Regional cooperation activities -- Institutional arrangements -- Shared watercourse administration -- Resource-use and institutional arrangements -- Integrated water management -- Marine -- Conventions and treaties -- TRENDS AND SCENARIOS: Current trends -- Water and resource-use -- Ecosystems -- Water and resource management -- Cooperation -- A vision for the future.
- ISBN
- 0797416722
- LCCN
- ^^^97981495^
- OCLC
- 37844288
- SCSB-10837850
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library