Water Quality in the Third Pole

• Author : Chhatra Mani Sharma,Shichang Kang,Lekhendra Tripathee
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2019-11-12
• ISBN : 9780128175248

Water Quality in the Third Pole: The Roles of Climate Change and Human Activities offers in-depth coverage of water quality issues (natural and human-related), the monitoring of contaminants, and the remediation of water contamination. The book's chapters assess years of research on water quality and climate change in this fascinating and scientifically important region. Topics addressed include climate change impacts on water qualities of freshwater bodies, such as glaciers, lakes, rivers and precipitation. In addition, the book explains the growing

• Author : Lei Wang,Chunqiao Song,Tobias Conradt,Mohamed Rasmy,Xiuping Li
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release Date : 2021-03-10
• ISBN : 9782889665822

• Author : Simon Marsden
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release Date : 2019
• ISBN : 9781786437419

This highly topical book considers the important question of how best to protect the environment of the Third Pole – the area comprising the Hindu Kush Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau – using the tool of international law. Following detailed analysis of the weaknesses in the current legal protections according to comparative legal theory, Simon Marsden recommends three potential options for implementation by policy and lawmakers.

• Author : Falk Huettmann
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release Date : 2012-04-26
• ISBN : 9784431540052

The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called “the three poles”. Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as the polar bear, the emperor penguin, and the snow leopard, contain the primary water resource of this planet and directly shape our climate. This book presents a first-ever global assessment and progressive review of the three poles and demonstrates the urgent need for

• Author : Philip Ball
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2017-05-05
• ISBN : 9780226470924

From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China’s culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and powerful new way of thinking about Chinese civilization. Water, Ball shows, is a key

• Author : Roger G. Barry,Eileen A. Hall-McKim
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2018-08-09
• ISBN : 9781108423168

Surveys atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric processes, present and past conditions, and changes in polar environments.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1978
• ISBN : NWU:35556030084826

• Author : Steve Gilbert,Asish Mohapatra,Sol Bobst,Antoinette Hayes,Sara T. Humes
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2020-05-16
• ISBN : 9780128137253

This new fifth edition of Information Resources in Toxicology offers a consolidated entry portal for the study, research, and practice of toxicology. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment. The editors and authors are among the leaders of the profession sharing their cumulative wisdom in toxicology’s subdisciplines. This edition keeps pace with the digital world

• Author : Bruce Lankford,Karen Bakker,Mark Zeitoun,Declan Conway
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-10-15
• ISBN : 9781136285868

The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the latest research, policy, practitioner, academic and international thinking on water security—an issue that, like water governance a few years ago, has developed much policy awareness and momentum with a wide range of stakeholders. As a concept it is open to multiple interpretations, and the authors here set out the various approaches to the topic from different perspectives. Key themes addressed include: Water security as a foreign policy

• Author : Mely Caballero-Anthony,Alistair D.B. Cook
• Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
• Release Date : 2013
• ISBN : 9789814414418

Non-Traditional Security in Asia examines the critical security challenges faced by states and societies in Asia including health, food, water, natural disasters, internal conflict, forced migration, energy, transnational crime, and cyber security. Through the development of a comprehensive analytical framework that establishes the key ingredients to policy evaluation, the editors draw on a wide variety of experts to collaborate in investigating these crucial issues. This inclusive framework ...

• Author : Shakeel Hayat
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2020-04-30
• ISBN : 9781000072440

The four decades long ideological-based insurgencies and conflict in the Kabul River Basin (KRB) have seriously hampered the relations and foreign policies of both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Consequently, it restricts them to solve various bilateral issues including transboundary waters. This lack of cooperation over shared water resources is one of the barriers to achieve inclusive and sustainable development. Additionally, it has contributed to the prevailing anarchic situation where each country does what it wants. The absence of a formal water-sharing

• Author : Muhammad Arif Watto,Michael Mitchell,Safdar Bashir
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2021-03-25
• ISBN : 9783030656799

This book presents the first comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan including surface water resources and groundwater resources. It gives a detailed overview of issues and challenges related to water which have not been adequately addressed e.g. water resource vulnerability to climate change, groundwater depletion and contamination, and water governance etc. It includes a collection and compilation of unpublished and scattered data from the archives and repositories of various national institutions and organization. Given the literature dearth, this

• Author : Amit Ranjan
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2019-12-14
• ISBN : 9789813296145

The book looks into the domestic water issues and disputes in the Himalayan South Asian countries, and based on it analyzes trans-boundary water disputes. Himalayan South Asia comprises India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Afghanistan. All except Afghanistan share river waters with India. Home to some of the major river basins of the world, a part of this region falls into water scarce zone, and according to the United Nations Water Report of 2018 some of them will experience severe water

• Author : Bjørn-Oliver Magsig
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2015-03-24
• ISBN : 9781317596790

The world’s freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The absence of law in attempts to address this issue highlights the necessity for further understanding from the legal perspective. This book provides a fresh conceptualisation of water security, developing an operational methodology for identifying the four core elements of water security which

• Author : Mark Synnott
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2022-04-05
• ISBN : 9781524745592

***NPR Books We Love 2021 selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain