Description
With Africa's water resources constantly threatened by an increasing population and the resultant rise in water demand, together with the stresses of water use for various activities, desertification, climate change, and other interventions in the water cycle by man, it is vital that the water resources in arid and semi-arid regions are developed a
Table of Contents
Preface xii
Keynote address
Sustainable water management in arid and semi-arid environments
W.Kinzelbach, P.Bauer, P.Brunner & T.Siegfried
Theme A: Problems in obtaining hydrological and geo-hydrological data
Theme B: Groundwater recharge: natural and artificial
Theme C: Socio-economic aspects
Theme D: Application of geophysical, GIS, and remote sensing
techniques
Theme E: Climate change and its impact
Theme F: Vulnerability and risk
Theme G: Water resources management
Author index
