Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems

by Edited by Daniel P. Loucks , John S. Gladwell

• ISBN13: 9780521089173
• ISBN10: 0521089174
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Water resources professionals have an obligation to conceive and manage water resource systems such that they will fully contribute to an improved quality of life for all humans, now and into the future. Those water resource systems that will be able to satisfy the changing demands that will inevitably be placed on them, without significant system degradation, can be called 'sustainable'. An international group of experts have reviewed various guidelines for achieving greater degrees of sustainability and the extent to which they have been applied in a number of case studies. Approaches for measuring and modelling sustainability are provided. Ways in which these measures and models might be used when evaluating alternative designs and operating policies are illustrated. The monograph will be particularly valuable for practising engineers and planners, and as a supplementary text for graduate students in civil and environmental engineering, hydrology, geography and economics.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sustainability issues and challenges

Defining sustainability

Measuring sustainability

Sustainability guidelines and case studies

Economic sustainability criteria

Ecological and environmental sustainability criteria and approaches

International and social aspects of sustainability

Sustainability and modeling technology

Sustainability, hydrologic risk and uncertainty

Equity, education and technology transfer

Conclusions

References

Index

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