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Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan
Climate Change and Land-Use Implications
This timely book brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources, including description of the basic topography of the Indus River watershed and the basic elements of the hydrological cycle across Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and India
John F. Shroder (Author), Sher Jan Ahmadzai (Author)
9780128018866
Paperback / softback, published 8 July 2016
544 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.4 cm, 1.06 kg
Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies. Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya.
Foreword Introduction Characteristics of the General Hydrological Cycle Surface and Ground-Water Hydrology in Afghanistan and Pakistan Afghanistan and Pakistan Drainage Characteristics and Sediment Transport Afghanistan and Pakistan Government Water Management Data Collection Measurement of Hydrologic Parameters in Afghanistan and Pakistan Characteristics & Implications of Climate Change in Mountains & Lowlands H2O Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Afghanistan and Pakistan Practicalities and Mythologies of Water Management in Southwest Asia New Irrigation Strategies to Save Water Equitable Division and Apportionment of Transboundary Water Resources: Problems and Possibilities Strategic/Security Environments Related to Water Issues in Afghanistan-Pakistan The Future of Water Management in Southwest Asia References
Subject Areas: Water supply & treatment [TQSW], Energy technology & engineering [TH]
