Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions : Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences - Schneier-Madanes, Graciela; Courel, Marie-Francoise.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Contemporary Issues -- Eco-reconstruction in Northwest China -- Remote Sensing Assessment of Salinization Impacts in the Tarim Basin: The Delta Oasis of the Ugan and Kuqa Rivers -- Estimating Net Primary Production in Xinjiang Through Remote Sensing -- The Recent Evolution of the Oasis Environment in the Taklimakan Desert, China -- High Demand in a Land of Water Scarcity: Iran -- Common Scarcity, Diverse Responses in the Maghreb Region -- Changing Water Resources and Food Supply in Arid Zones: Tunisia -- Learning from History -- The Qanat: A Living History in Iran -- Notes from the Turpan Basin: Pioneering Research on the Karez -- An Introduction to the Khettara in Morocco: Two Contrasting Cases -- Digitally Conserving an Endangered Built Heritage in Kashgar, an Oasis City of the Taklimakan -- The Taklimakan Oases: An Environmental Evolution Shown Through Geoarchaeology -- Management for Sustainability -- How the Predominance of Water Resources Informs Management -- Conjunctive Water Management in the US Southwest -- Managing Water Amid Rapid Urbanization: Mexico's North Borderlands -- Forecasting Streamflows in the San Juan River Basin in Argentina -- Arsenic and Water Quality Challenges in South America -- Evaluating the Restoration of Dryland Ecosystems in the Northern Mediterranean -- Old and New: Changing Paradigms in Arid Lands Water Management.
Keywords: Earth sciences; Water; Sustainable development; Environment; Water pollution; Business; Management science; Earth Sciences, general; Water, general; Sustainable Development; Environment, general; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Business and Management, general