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Publikováno v:
Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography. 117:142-154
In most developing countries, the provision of municipal services and infrastructure invariably fails to match the pace and demands of urbanization. The outcome is often increased informality due to improper planning, official bureaucratic barriers a
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Urban Forum. 28:185-203
In developing countries, increasing urbanization amidst chronic financial constraints sharply limits the authorities’ ability to provide universal urban infrastructural services. This tendency creates complex networks of governance that remains lar
Autor:
Ian K. Smout, Sam Kayaga
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management. 167:448-456
Urban water managers need to adopt water demand management (WDM) as one of the ways to provide for the needs and demands of escalating urban populations, amidst the negative impacts of increased pollution loads and climate change on finite water reso
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer. 166:130-138
Institutional reform of state-owned water utilities serving urban areas has often set out to turn them into effective and efficient organisations, so that they can become excellent service providers. However, the pursuit of such objectives, which are
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 137:659-667
The SOFTANK model optimally designs the watershed-based tank system by simulating field, tank, and groundwater balances. We applied this model to a small watershed consisting of six tanks (small reservoirs) in the semiarid region of India. We evaluat
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 137:651-658
Small reservoirs known as tanks are constructed in the watersheds of arid, semiarid, and subhumid regions of India to provide supplementary or protective irrigation to crops during dry spells of the monsoon season or full irrigation during the postmo
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Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering. 136:486-493
Climate change will lead to changed demands on existing irrigation systems. This paper presents a methodology for investigating the performance of irrigation networks under climate change, and applies this to an irrigation network in Cordoba, souther
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Irrigation and Drainage Systems. 24:53-64
The relationships between urban development, water resources management and wastewater use for irrigation have been studied in the cities of Accra in Ghana, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Hyderabad in India. Large volumes of water are extracted from wat
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer. 162:79-85
Electronic waste (e-waste) is an emerging issue in the municipal towns of China. Its significance is driven by the rapidly increasing quantities, the hazards involved and the valuable materials in it. The poor quality e-waste recycling and disposal m
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Water Supply. 7:49-56
Whereas the world population is increasing at a high rate, especially in urban areas, water resources have not only remained constant, but are being polluted at a high rate, which inevitably results in fresh water scarcity. Current urban water manage