Water Resources in the Built Environment Management Issues and Solutions

• Other Authors: Charlesworth, Susanne M. (edited), Booth, Colin A. (edited)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK WILEY Blackwell 2014
• Subjects: Water resources development; Watershed management; Water-supply
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• Physical Description: xvii, 421 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780470670910; 0470670916

Water Resources for the Built Environment: management issues and solutions develops an appreciation of the diverse, complex and current themes of the water resources debate across the built environment, urban development and management continuum. The integration of physical and environmental sciences, combined with social, economic and political sciences, provide a unique resource, useful to policy experts, scientists, engineers and subject enthusiasts. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, water resources issues and impacts on the built environment are presented in the inventive and strategic setting of considering the constraints of delivering potable water to an ever-demanding society who, at the same time, are increasingly aware of living in an urban landscape where excessive surface water creates a flood threatened environment - hence, the need to portray a balance between 'too little vs. too much'