Two volumes, Publs 280 & 281, resulted from the International Symposium on:

Water Resources Systems
Global Change, Risk Assessment and Water Management

held during IUGG 2003 (Sapporo, Japan).

The provision of adequate water supply is of fundamental importance to social and economic security worldwide. In many regions, the awareness of the wider community of the importance of water resources management has increased dramatically over the past few years. It has become clear that, in order to sustainably balance supply and demand of natural resources, the integration of a range of disciplines from a comprehensive systems perspective is essential and this certainly applies to water. The call for contributions to this symposium was so successful that it was expanded and so the selected papers were divided, according to topic, between two books, IAHS publications 280 and 281.

Water Resources Systems - Water Availability and Global Change

edited by

Stewart Franks, Günter Blöschl, Michio Kumagai,
Katumi Musiake & Dan Rosbjerg

Publ. 280 (2003), ISBN 1-901502-27-9; 322 + xiv pp, Price £54.90

As greater demands are placed upon limited water resources, it becomes increasingly important to safeguard water resource systems from encroaching pollution, over-exploitation, the vagaries of natural climate variability, and the threat of anthropogenic climate change. Continued population growth over the coming decades can only exacerbate the existing global water crisis. This volume compiles a representative sample of the range of activities currently engaging the international hydrological science community, focusing on:

Alphabetical List of Authors
Key word index

Contents


     
  1. Water Resources Assessment: Case Studies and Methodologies
     
     
  2. Observations of Hydrological Change
     
     
  3. Coupled Climate–Land Surface Modelling Approaches
     
     
  4. Water Quality Threats to Water Resources
     
     
  5. Modelling Approaches to Water Resource Assessment
     
     

    Key word index, 319-321