| Title | A review of selected hydrology topics to support Bank operations : report |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | Garcia, LE, Puz, G |
| Secondary Title | HEF Technical Report |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pagination | 122 p.; ill.; fig.; tab. |
| Date Published | 2010-06-01 |
| Publisher | World Bank |
| Place Published | Washington, DC, USA |
| Keywords | ecology, ecosystems, hydrology, water resources, water resources conservation, water resources development, water resources management |
| Abstract | The World Bank's 2004 water resources sector strategy focused on the need for both water resources management and development in dealing with growth and poverty alleviation. Planning and design of new hydraulic infrastructure for water supply and sanitation, food production, hydropower generation, flood protection, ecosystem restoration or other such purposes require dealing with all elements in the interaction among land, water, vegetation, human intervention and climate variability and change, with an emphasis on the end-user. They also require the simultaneous consideration of technical, economic, institutional (governance), political, financial, environmental and social factors, as called for in the Bank's 1993 Water Resources Management Policy. A wide spectrum of topics was presented for discussion in a workshop that was more exploratory than analytical. Its main purpose was to identify the interest of the Bank's water community for those topics that could jointly be moved forward by following actions aimed at further dissemination and development of specific knowledge products. [authors abstract] |
| Notes | With references at the end of each chapter. |
| Custom 1 | 211 |
