Transboundary Water Resources: Strategies for Regional Security and Ecological StabilityHartmut Vogtmann, Nikolai Dobretsov Springer Science & Business Media, 2005 M07 26 - 198 pages After the sovjet era and since their independence the new Central Asian countries are rebuilding a system of water resources management: an important challenge for the development of the whole region. The NATO workshop held on 25-27 August 2003 by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, attended by experts from five Central Asian countries, Russia, six Western European countries, the US and the UNEP offered water engineers and nature scientists as well as economic and political scientists and practitioners from water administrations and international river commissions to meet in Novosibirsk and develop sustainable approaches in the management of Central Asian water resources. This book presents important aspects of transboundary water resources, i.e. the global water crisis: problems and perspectives; regional experiences in solving water problems in Central Asia; problems and management of transboundary water resources; ecological and economic aspects of water management; scientific analysis and tools of water changes; strategic implications of water access arisen during the workshop. A final recommendation in the area of equitable sharing of benefits, monitoring and data collection as well as proposals for Central Asia transboundary waters programme were set in the book as the main result of the meeting. |
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... social development for people , especially poor people . Yet we are far from achieving the sustainable use of water and in many parts of the world , people are facing a water crisis . And , unlike the energy crisis , the water crisis is ...
... social costs . As the World Bank states " the environment [ is ] not just another consumptive user of water but the water resource itself and ... degrading the quantity and quality of water in rivers , lakes , wetlands and aquifers can ...
... social development. And it is important to stress that sustainable water and land use are closely connected. Land in water catchments must be managed sustainable to maintain and maximise the productivity of water. For example ...
... social and environmental – combine to determine the state of regional security and it is necessary to fully include the environmental dimension in regional security considerations . Given the transboundary nature of water resources in ...
... social factors. (Howe, 1995). As noted above, environmental degradation inevitably has economic and social consequences for human beings. In the case of catchment degradation, agriculture and energy production are reduced, which imposes ...
Contents
On the problem of the Caspian Sea level forecasting 27 | 26 |
regional experiences in solving water problems | 37 |
Regional experience in solving problems of water resources | 43 |
Regional experiences in solving of water resources problems | 55 |
Challenges of transboundary water management in the Danube | 73 |
Transboundary water problems in the basin of the Irtysh | 83 |
Transboundary water problems in the KurAraz basin 93 | 92 |
Nature conservation and sustainable management | 109 |
The role of economics to promote a sustainable use | 129 |
Strategic implications of water access | 147 |
Critical Geography The strategic influence of water | 169 |
List of Workshop Participants 195 | 194 |