The Nile Waters
Autor Joseph Awangeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 feb 2021
Considerăm că analiza resurselor de apă din bazinul Nilului a depășit etapa observațiilor la firul ierbii, devenind o necesitate ce poate fi îndeplinită doar prin tehnologie aerospațială. În volumul The Nile Waters, autorul Joseph Awange propune o abordare inovatoare: „cântărirea” bazinului hidrografic de aproximativ 3.400.000 km² direct din spațiu. Această metodă este crucială deoarece obținerea datelor in-situ pentru un teritoriu atât de vast și complex politic este practic imposibilă. Remarcăm structura riguroasă a lucrării, care dedică secțiuni ample celor două artere principale: Nilul Alb și Nilul Albastru. Dincolo de datele hidrologice, Joseph Awange explorează dimensiunile economice și de eco-turism, culminând cu o analiză a provocărilor de management și mediu. Cititorii familiarizați cu Nile River Basin de Assefa M. Melesse vor aprecia în acest volum The Nile Waters accentul pus pe tehnologiile de teledetecție și produsele de reanaliză, care oferă o precizie superioară în monitorizarea umidității solului și a apelor subterane. Apreciem modul în care autorul integrează tensiunile politice actuale, precum construcția barajului GERD în Etiopia, în contextul schimbărilor climatice. Spre deosebire de lucrările care se concentrează strict pe istoria tratatelor, acest volum publicat de Springer oferă argumente tehnice pentru o distribuție echitabilă a apei între cele 11 țări riverane. Este un text esențial pentru înțelegerea modului în care presiunea demografică — estimată să se dubleze în un sfert de secol — va forța reevaluarea gestionării celui mai lung fluviu din lume.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030647544
ISBN-10: 3030647544
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: XVII, 267 p. 92 illus., 88 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030647544
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: XVII, 267 p. 92 illus., 88 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2021
Editura: Springer
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
De ce să citești această carte
Această primă ediție din 2021 este fundamentală pentru experții în politici de mediu și hidrologi. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă bazată pe date satelitare asupra crizei apei din Africa, înțelegând impactul barajelor moderne și necesitatea unor noi acorduri internaționale. Este o resursă tehnică ce transformă datele complexe în soluții de management sustenabil pentru resursele de apă ale Nilului.
Descriere scurtă
This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers. Exploiting advanced statistical techniques and the latest state-of-the-art multi-mission satellites, surface models and reanalysis products, this book provides the first comprehensive weighing of the changes in the Nile River Basin’s (NRB: ~ 3,400,000 km2 ) stored waters' compartments, surface, soil moisture and groundwater, and their association to climate variability/change and anthropogenic impacts on the one hand. On the other hand, it argues on the need for equitable use of the NRB’s waters by all 11 countries within its basin, and doing away with obsolete Nile treaties that were signed by Britain, Egypt and Sudan, which prohibit the use of the Nile by 8 upstream countries. With Ethiopia’s construction of Africa’s largest dam (GERD; Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam) along the Blue Nile, which is expected to take several years to fill, the Nile is back on the news. Combined with Uganda’s Nalubaale, Kiira and Bujagali dams on the White Nile, these human-induced impacts (i.e., damming), coupled with those of climate variability/change, are expected to exacerbate tension with the low stream countries (Egypt and Sudan) fearing the cut in theNile’s total volume. Furthermore, the Nile river, arguably the world’s longest river (6800 km), impacts on the livelihood of over 300 million people of 11 countries within its basin. This population is expected to double in the next twenty-five years, thereby putting extreme pressure on its water resources. An in-depth analysis of changes in the Nile’s stored waters, therefore, is essential to inform its management and sustainable equitable use. Owing to its sheer size, however, obtaining in-situ data from “boots on the ground” is practically impossible, paving way to the space-based weighing of the Nile River Basin using a suite of high spatio-temporal remotely sensed and reanalysis products, as well as those of hydrological models.
“Arguably, the Nile River is the most unique river in the world. It spans extremes of rainfall from being measured by meters to being measured by centimeters, from the humid tropics to the driest of deserts. Yet, thirsty people live throughout this basin and therefore the demands on its water resources are uneven. Knowing the water amounts throughout the entire Nile Basin is a critical step for governments and international treaties to avoid the “Tragedy of the Commons”. Africa can embrace this future through the leadership of Prof. Awange and others like him who have devoted their careers to Africa’s waters”
—Doug Alsdorf, Ph.D., Professor of Geophysics at the Ohio State University (USA).
“Arguably, the Nile River is the most unique river in the world. It spans extremes of rainfall from being measured by meters to being measured by centimeters, from the humid tropics to the driest of deserts. Yet, thirsty people live throughout this basin and therefore the demands on its water resources are uneven. Knowing the water amounts throughout the entire Nile Basin is a critical step for governments and international treaties to avoid the “Tragedy of the Commons”. Africa can embrace this future through the leadership of Prof. Awange and others like him who have devoted their careers to Africa’s waters”
—Doug Alsdorf, Ph.D., Professor of Geophysics at the Ohio State University (USA).
Cuprins
Water Resources.- The White Nile.- Background of the White Nile.- Resources of the White Nile.- Eco-Tourism in the White Nile.- Economic Development in the White Nile.- Wetlands of the White Nile.- Part II The Blue Nile.- Background of the Blue Nile.- Resources of the Blue Nile.- Eco-Tourism in the Blue Nile.- Economic Development in the Blue Nile.- Wetlands of the Blue Nile.- Meeting the Challenges.- Environmental Challenges.- Economic Challenges.- Poverty Challenges.- Management Challenges.- Past and Current Initiatives.- Meeting the Challenges.
Caracteristici
Addresses a current hot topic as evidenced from recent media releases
Presents an overview of the problems facing the Nile waters and proposes pioneering solutions
Provides a comprehensive measure of changes in the Nile waters based on advanced statistics, multi-mission satellites, models and reanalysis products
Includes space-based examples of scientific solutions to some of the problems facing the Nile waters
Presents an overview of the problems facing the Nile waters and proposes pioneering solutions
Provides a comprehensive measure of changes in the Nile waters based on advanced statistics, multi-mission satellites, models and reanalysis products
Includes space-based examples of scientific solutions to some of the problems facing the Nile waters
Notă biografică
Joseph Awange is a professor of Environmental Geoinformatics at the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) having previously worked at Curtin University (Australia). His research interests are sensing of environmental changes employing geospatial and AI techniques, hydroclimate, climate variability/change, climate extremes and mathematical geosciences (algebraic & numerical solutions). He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Surveying (University of Nairobi, Kenya). Joseph was awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining a second MSc degree and PhD in Geodesy at Stuttgart University (Germany) under the supervision of the late Prof Erik W. Grafarend (one of the world's renown geodesists). In 2002-2004, he was awarded the prestigious Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS; Japan) Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research in Environmental Geodesy at Kyoto University. His research output has been globally recognized through prestigious Awards (i) Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowships (2008-2011 Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial Fellowship for experienced researchers, 2015 & 2019 AvH support in acknowledgment of his scientific achievements in his specific academic field and in recognition of his contribution towards scientific cooperation with German colleagues), (ii) 2015 JSPS Fellowship, and (iii), Brazil Frontier of Science (Brazil). Joseph who holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) from Murdoch University (Australia) is currently serving as the Acquisition Manager for Springer Nature (world-leading research, educational and professional publisher) in charge of Earth Sciences, Geography, and Environment books. He attained International Editorial role in Springer Earth Science Books and has authored more than 25 scholarly books with the prestigious Springer publisher and more than 250 peer-reviewed high-impact journal publications.
Béla Paláncz is emeritus professor of computer science at the Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. He received his D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1993 and has a background in education and research of mathematical modeling and numeric-symbolic computation as well as machine learning algorithms and experience abroad including at RWTH (Aachen, Germany), Imperial College (London), and Wolfram Research (USA), Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) Johannes Kepler University ( Linz, Austria) and recently Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Perth, Australia) and University of Canterbury, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Christchurch, New Zealand). He can be contacted at the Department of Geodesy and Surveying, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111 Budapest, M¿egyetem rkp.3., Hungary.
Lajos Völgyesi graduated as a geophysicist from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Geodesy and Surveying of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main research interests are in the fields of physical and theoretical geodesy, mathematical geosciences and geophysics. He has significant scientific achievements in the fields of time variation of the geoid and the explanation of the physical background of major geoid anomalies, the geophysical foundations of 4-dimensional geodesy and the study of Earth rotation phenomena. He also does researches in astronomical geodesy and, together with his physicist colleagues, has started an important series of experiments to prove the so-called weak equivalence principle by remeasuring the Eötvös experiment. His research results have been published in about 200 papers and numerous international presentations and scientific confer