Foreseeable Future For Water Planning

Name: Foreseeable Future For Water Planning
Brand: IWA Publishing

IWA Publishing

The Foreseeable Future for Water PlanningTime to Change\nAuthor(s): Andrew James Segrave\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: IWA Publishing, United Kingdom\nImprint: IWA Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781780406121, 978-1780406121\nSynopsis\nPeople and societies conceptualise and experience time in fundamentally different ways. This basic aspect of perception significantly influences the way we frame problems and conceive solutions.\nThis book shows how time perspectives differ across national cultures and across professional roles. It shows how these differences generate ambiguity when it comes to defining problems and devising solutions in the water sector. This is especially important when dealing with problems such as Sustainable Water Resources Management and Climate Change that involve (culturally and professionally) diverse stakeholders. Response strategies to such problems inherently require concerted action because of the large spatial and temporal scale on which they take place and to mins