Sustainable Water: Challenges and Solutions from California - Softcover

Lassiter, Allison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520285352 ISBN 13: 9780520285354

Publisher: University of California Press, 2015

Synopsis

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure are impacting water security around the globe. Struggling with the most significant drought in its recorded history, California faces all of these challenges to secure reliable water supplies for the future. The unfolding story of California water includes warnings and solutions for any region seeking to manage water among the pressures of a dynamic society and environment., Written by leading policy makers, lawyers, economists, hydrologists, ecologists, engineers, and planners, Sustainable Water reaches across disciplines to address problems and solutions for the sustainable use of water in urban areas. The solutions and ideas put forward in this book integrate water management strategies to increase resilience in a changing world. Contributors: John T., Andrew, Carolina Balazs, Celeste Cantu, Juliet Christian-Smith, Matthew Deitch, Caitlin Dyckman, Howard Foster, Julian Fulton, Peter Gleick, Brian E. Gray, Ellen Hanak, Maurice Hall, Michael Hanemann, Sasha Harris-Lovett, Matthew Heberger, G. Mathias Kondolf, Jay Lund, Damian Park, Kristen Podolak, John Radke, Isha Ray, David Sedlak, Fraser Shilling, Daniel Wendell, Robert Wilkinson, Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, Sarah Yarnell

About this title

Review:

"Lively and provocative with real food for thought."--Jonah Raskin"The Huffington Post" (09/04/2015)

"[Sustainable Water] critically examines the variability and uncertainty of the water footprint as well as its future role in sustainable water management."--Environment and Urbanization

About the Author:

Allison Lassiter completed a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at UC Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0520285352
• ISBN 13: 9780520285354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408