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Water for a starving world

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Water for a starving world book

ByMalin Falkenmark, Gunnar Lindh, Roger G. Tanner, Yahia Abdel Mageed, Ven Te Chow
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1976
eBook Published 17 December 2020
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429267260
Pages 218
eBook ISBN 9780429267260
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Falkenmark, M., Lindh, G., Mageed, Y.A., & Chow, V.T. (1977). Water for a starving world (R.G. Tanner, Trans.; 1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429267260

ABSTRACT

This book describes the role of water in development and illustrates water problems in different parts of the world with particular emphasis on the problems of the starving continents. It shows what tools will be needed and what can be done to bring the world's water under human control.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|36 pages

Population development and water

chapter 3|19 pages

Water and agriculture

chapter 4|27 pages

Africa—too wet or too dry?

chapter 5|26 pages

Asia—a densely populated continent

chapter 6|12 pages

South America—a generously watered continent

chapter 7|20 pages

Problems ahead for the industrialized countries

chapter 8|20 pages

Water management is quite possible

chapter 9|17 pages

The key role of knowledge transfer

chapter 10|15 pages

Epilogue

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