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Sustainable Water Resources Management: Challenges and Methods

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This chapter provides findings of a working group from the NATO conference on Sustainable Cities and Military Installations, whose purpose was to identify the emerging challenges and methods in water resources management. The chapter identifies several themes of sustainable water resources planning, including: (i) the triple net zero concept of water, energy, and materials; (ii) risk, uncertainty, and future scenarios as multiple planning criteria; (iii) interactions within and across multiple spatial and temporal scales; and (iv) application of the second law of thermodynamics to ecological systems.

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  1. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    M. C. Hamilton & J. H. Lambert

  2. Bioengineering Group, Salem, MA, USA

    W. Goldsmith

  3. International Research Office, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, London, UK

    R. Harmon

  4. Novus Environmental, Guelph, ON, Canada

    D. Lewis

  5. University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    B. Srdjevic

  6. AU Herning and Nordic Center of Excellence for Strategic Adaptation Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    M. Goodsite

  7. Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA

    M. Macdonell

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Hamilton, M.C. et al. (2014). Sustainable Water Resources Management: Challenges and Methods. In: Linkov, I. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Military Installations. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7161-1_6

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