Urban Water Security: Managing Risks - Unesco-Ihp

Informationen zum Autor Jimenez Cisneros\! Blanca; Rose\! Joan B. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the effects of the increasing urbanization, and, accordingly, the increasing number of urban dwellers and the consequences for the urban water cycle. This title also elaborates on the effects, impact and management strategies to better prepare the city for the increasing urbanization. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Drinking water – Potential health effects caused by wastewater disposal 3. Microbial Health Risks and Water Quality; 4. Chemical Health Risks 5. Risk Management on the urban water cycle. Climate change risks 6. Water source and drinking water risk management 7. Wastewater risks in the urban water cycle 8. Risks Associated with Biosolids Reuse in Agriculture 9. Closing the Urban Water Cycle” Integrated Approach towards Water Reuse in Windhoek, Namibia 10. Reducing risk from wastewater use in urban farming – a case study of Accra, Ghana 11. Drinking water – potential health effects caused by infiltration of pollutants from solid waste landfills 12. Exploding sewers: the industrial use and abuse of municipal sewers, and reducing the risk—the experience of Louisville, Kentucky US 13. Lessons learned: a response and recovery framework for post-disaster scenarios 14. Managing urban water risks: Managing drought and climate change risks in Australia

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• Authors: Blanca Jimenez Rose Cisneros, Blanca (Universidad Nacional Aut Jimenez Cisneros, Blanca Rose Jimenez Cisneros
• Assisted by: Blanca Jimenez (Editor), Blanca Jiménez (Editor), Blanca Jimenez Cisneros (Editor), Blanca (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Jimenez Cisneros (Editor), Jimenez Cisneros Blanca (Editor), Joan Rose (Editor), JOAN B ROSE (Editor), JOAN B (Michigan State University ROSE (Editor), Joan B. Rose (Editor), Joan B. (Michigan State University Rose (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2009
• EAN: 9780415485661
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48566-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Urban Water Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, Water supply & treatment, Water supply and treatment