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Water Resources Management | RAND Water Resources Management Fresh water is an essential and often scarce resource, and ensuring its optimum use and availability for sanitation, drinking, manufacturing, leisure, and agriculture requires significant planning
Water Planning For the Uncertain Future | RAND Water Resources Planning Is Changing Water resources planning is becoming more challenging as the era of simply expanding supply to meet demand is replaced by integrated resources management, which must account for limits on new sources, variability or changes in supply and demand outside historical ranges, and competing needs from different users and uses (such as environmental and
Chinas Water Future: Key Decisions, Challenges, and Trade-Offs The authors of this report analyzed China’s water stress and recent water resource policy decisions to identify the current and future implications of water resource constraints for China’s strategic planning
A Spatial Vision for Palestine: A Long-Term Plan That Can Begin Now | RAND The world urgently needs a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict In parallel with progress toward a long-term political settlement, other indispensable steps for peace and prosperity include infrastructure planning and economic development In this report, the authors offer a vision for how spatial planning, infrastructure, and resource management in the West Bank and Gaza could better
Monterrey, Mexico, Case Study | RAND Monterrey currently derives 30 percent of its supply from groundwater, and several future water management options under consideration rely on groundwater resources
From Flood Control to Integrated Water Resource Management: Lessons for . . . The critical concept of integrated water resource management policy—particularly its implication that flood damage control includes conceding land to the water from time to time—is a psychologically difficult one This problem goes well beyond flood control
A New Analytic Method for Finding Policy-Relevant Scenarios Scenarios play a prominent role in policy debates over climate change, but questions continue about how best to use them A new analytic method, based on robust decisionmaking, can be applied to water resource management in California and climate change policy questions
China s Water Future: Key Decisions, Challenges, and Trade-Offs About This Report This report characterizes Chinese leaders’ decisionmaking about water management and potential future implications of these decisions We combined water supply and demand data with an analysis of China’s recent policy decisions around water resources In addition, we conducted a workshop with China experts to identify the interaction of water resource constraints with
Environmental and Natural Resource Management | RAND Environmental and Natural Resource Management The use and conservation of natural resources such as water, land, soil, plants, and animals affects a multitude of industries, from agriculture and mining to tourism, fishing, and forestry
Recommended Research Priorities for Qatars Environment and Energy . . . The Qatar Foundation is establishing a national research institute to conduct energy, environment, and water research This book recommends research priorities for the institute and reports on a survey of related research institutions in the region