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Issues of local and global use of water from the Amazon / edited by Luis E. Aragon & Miguel Clusener-Godt.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Montevideo : UNESCO, 2004. Description: 237 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9290890762
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 333.910098133 ISS
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Book Closed Access Book Closed Access Engineering Library 333.910098133 ISS 1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0027564

Contents;

1. The South-south co-operation programme for ecodevelopment and the question of water in the Amazon
2. Plural elocution: In search of a certain uncertainty. Water that sees the sun: no color, no odor, no flavor
3. Evaluation of the anthropogenic impacts on the water cycle in Amazonia
4. Pollution of natural water resources in Amazonia: sources, risks and consequences
5. The importance of rivers for the transportation system of the Amazon

6. Determining factors in the construction of hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon: reasons for claiming damage payments
7. Inclusion of the Amazon in the geopolitics of water
8. Legislation and institutional systems for water resource management in Brazil and their relevance to the Amazon
9. Water resource management as an element of transformation in Amazonian society
10. Amazonian co-operation for knowledge on water resources and for the sustainable use of these resources in the region

Includes bibliographical references.

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