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Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources provides a fully comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of all three factors in their relation to water resources. Economic issues consist of Water accounting, Water economy, Water pricing, Water market, Water bank and bourse. Political issues consist of Water power and hydrogemistry, Water diplomacy and hydropolitics, Water rights and water laws, Water governance and policy, Shared water resources management, Water management systems, and social issues consist of Water and culture, civilization and history, Water quality, hygiene, and health, Water and society.
This book familiarizes researchers with all aspects of the field, which can lead to optimized and multidimensional water resources management. Some of abovementioned issues are new, so the other aim of this book is to identify them in order to researchers can easily find them and use them in their studies.
List of contents
1. Water Accounting
2. Water economy
3. Water Pricing
4. Water Market
5. Water bank and bourse
6. Geopolitics
7. Waterpower
8. Water diplomacy
9. International Water rights and laws
10. Water Policy and Governance
11. Shared Water Resources Management
12. Water Management Systems
13. Water and culture
14. Water quality, hygiene, and health
15. Water and society
About the author
Dr. Omid Bozorg-Haddad is a distinguished professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. His teaching and research interests include water resources, energy, and environmental systems analysis, engineering, planning, and management as well as application of simulation techniques and optimization algorithms in water related systems. He has published more than 40 books and book chapters, 300 journal and 200 conference papers. He has also supervised more than 100 M.Sc. thesis and Ph.D. dissertations.
