Overview
- Detailed overview of water issues and challenges in Pakistan
- Topics include hydrology, water management and economics
- A reference for students, policy makers, and water experts
Part of the book series: World Water Resources (WWR, volume 9)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Given the literature dearth, this book will not only be a comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan but can also can as outstanding textbook on water resource management in Pakistan. It will attract a great range of readership including water specialists, researchers, undergraduate and post graduate students and policy makers from Pakistan as well as from overseas.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael Mitchell is aResearch Fellow with the Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS) at Charles Sturt University in Australia. His expertise is in social dimensions of natural resource management, building on a PhD at ILWS investigating triple bottom line reporting with an irrigation company in NSW, Australia, and an MPhil at Sydney University investigated social and environmental consequences of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin. For the past four years, Dr Mitchell has been employed as part of an Australian government funded project to investigate how groundwater management in Pakistan can be improved, undertaken in collaboration with Pakistan groundwater managers and users. He has published in a wide array of international renown journals, including Society and Natural Resources, Land Use Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, and Journal of Hydrology.
Safdar Bashir is an Assistant professor at the Department of Soil and Environmental Science, University ofAgriculture, Faisalabad, Sub-campus Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan. He holds his PhD (Dr. rer. nat) in Geoscience from Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen and postdoc from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is an Environmental Geo-scientist with a passion for the technical aspects of encouraging sustainable resource use and stewardship of the environment. His main research focus is addressing the soil and water contamination and their sustainable management. He has already published various book chapters and scientific publications with renowned publishers including Springer, Elsevier, American Chemical Society etc. along with short correspondence/communications with Science and Nature publishers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Resources of Pakistan
Book Subtitle: Issues and Impacts
Editors: Muhammad Arif Watto, Michael Mitchell, Safdar Bashir
Series Title: World Water Resources
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65679-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65678-2Published: 26 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65681-2Published: 29 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65679-9Published: 25 March 2021
Series ISSN: 2509-7385
Series E-ISSN: 2509-7393
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Water and Health, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management