Research Catalog

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