Water is now acknowledged as a major limiting factor in the socio-economic development of a world with rapidly expanding population where poverty eradication and food supply both contribute to growing per capita needs.
| Title | Water - the key to socio-economic development and quality of life : the 8th Stockholm Water Symposium, August 10 - 13, 1998 : proceedings |
| Publication Type | Conference Report |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Authors | Stockholm International Water Institute -Stockholm, SE, SIWI |
| Pagination | 267 p. : fig., tab. |
| Date Published | 1998-10-01 |
| Publisher | Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) |
| Place Published | Stockholm, Sweden |
| ISBN Number | 9197192996 |
| Keywords | drought, gender, groundwater, groundwater pollution, international level, policies, rainwater harvesting, sdiwrm, water resources management |
| Abstract | Water is now acknowledged as a major limiting factor in the socio-economic development of a world with rapidly expanding population where poverty eradication and food supply both contribute to growing per capita needs. It is now desirable to explore a region's carrying capacity as seen from a water perspective, and the fundamental conflict in low income regions between life support and quality of life on the one hand, and preservation of downstream ecosystems, on the other. The 1998 Stockholm Water Symposium aimed at highlighting strategies and policies to deal with the problem of balancing the productivity of natural resources to secure a development that does not undermine its own resource base. This volume contains the proceedings of the Symposium which included eight different workshops on the following items: (1) carrying capacity and crop production: water-related conflicts and opportunities; (2) ecological services and risk assessment: upstream/downstream conflicts; (3) business environmental policies and strategies for pollution prevention; (4) meeting hydroclimatic variability in the tropics and subtropics: strategies for drought effect mitigation; (5) significance of groundwater resources for socio-economic development; (6) groundwater pollution - an underestimated risk; (7) groundwater - the policy and management perspective; and (8) contributions of women in the field of water management. Part 1 contains the opening address and the contributions of keynote and plenary speakers. Part 2 contains the results of the panel discussion with a related paper; the results of the young scientists forum; the synopses by the respective chairmen and rapporteurs of the individual workshops, each followed by the contributions of the invited workshop speaker(s); the list of workshop speakers; and a report from the poster session, followed by a list of poster presentations. The publication ends with a list of participants in the symposium. |
| Custom 1 | 210, 71 |
| Original Publication | Water : the key to socio-economic development and quality of life : the 8th Stockholm Water Symposium 10 - 13 August 1998 : abstracts |
