Integrated Water Resource Planning provides practical; evidence-based guidance on water resource planning. In a time of heightened awareness of ecosystem needs; climate change; and increasing and conflicting demands on resources; water professionals and decision-makers around the world are on a steep learning curve. This book presents an international examination of water reform experiences; and provides lessons in how to manage environmental uncertainties; long term management; and increase in demand. It breaks the process down into a series of common steps; applies program logic and evaluation theory; and discusses best practices in assessment; decision making and community engagement. Importantly it recognises the large variation in available knowledge and capacity; risk and scale; and discusses a range of approaches that can be used for different circumstances. The book will fill in the gaps for professionals in interdisciplinary teams including sociologists; hydrologists; engineers; ecologists; and community consultation specialists; by providing a basic grounding in areas outside their usual expertise; and will provide ammunition to community stakeholders in their quest to ensure that water planning outcomes are justified and justifiable.Case studies provide an understanding of the context; practical tools and implementation techniques for achieving sustainable outcomes; and the multi-disciplinary approach and insights offered in this book will be transposable and instructive for water professionals worldwide.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Good tactics workbook for more advanced club playersBy Christopher J. FalterGerman grandmaster Karsten Muller has gathered 565 instructive and challenging tactics-rich positions into this fine collection. The first half of the book classifies the positions according to themes (pins; skewers; deflections; and so forth). Some; but not all; of the positions have significant hints. Next comes a section of mixed "easy" positions which were actually plenty challenging for me; and Im rated 1900+ at the Free Internet Chess Server. After chapters on opening traps; endgame shots; and defensive stunners; Muller closes with 160 mixed positions arranged into tests. If you want hints on the test positions; you can find them in the rear of the book; along with solutions to all of the books problems.Several qualities make this book worth your while:* Most of the positions occurred in games from the late 90s and early 2000s; so you will not encounter many "classic" positions from other collections.* I have not detected any errors in the diagrams or solutions; which is nice.* The printing; binding; and paper are durable and pleasing to the eye.Unfortunately; Muller does not always analyze the moves that a grandmaster might quickly reject but a club player might find attractive. For example; in position 152 white leaves his f5 knight hanging 3 moves into the combination; but black plays a prophylactic defensive move rather than just accept the piece sac. Why? Muller does not tells us; and I couldnt find a convincing continuation for white after a few minutes of analysis.While such omissions in analysis are not rare enough for me to award the book 5 stars; its still a good value for players rated upwards of 1700 or so. I would suggest 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts; Too for players with less experience.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Challenging puzzles; ebook version not well thought outBy P. A. ConnorsThis puzzle book might be useful for some if one caution is taken into account; and one problem:Caution: quite a few of the puzzles are hard; and I would expect anyone rated below 1700 to have great difficulty with a lot of the puzzles.Problem: all the solutions are placed together; directly one after the other; with numerous solutions per page. This makes it tricky not to see succeeding solutions when looking up the solution of one of the puzzles. (For the ebook version; this problem could be solved by having one puzzle per page; and one interlinked solution per page.)42 of 42 people found the following review helpful. Tactical problems from real games; organized by motifBy CustomerI have a large collection of books of tactics and tactical problems; but I had avoided this one because the title misled me (and at least one other person I talked to) into believing it consisted of artificial studies; whereas I prefer my problems to be from real games. When I finally saw this book at the local chess club; I was pleasantly surprised to find the positions are from real games; labeled with the players; dates; etc.There are 565 problems in all; organized by motif (pin; fork; etc.); with some problems further labeled with hints like "Whites position looks shaky. How to make it crumble?". Most of the problems are recent; from games in the 21st century; though there are a scattering of classics all the way back to Morphy. Almost all are from GM games; which of course means the difficulty is fairly uniformly high.Because of the high quality of the diagrams and solutions; this book has replaced Reinfeld at my bedside for motif-based practice. I also recommend "Sharpen Your Tactics" which presents 1125 problems organized by difficulty; rather than motif. I believe the approaches of these two books; both high quality; complement each other in fully rounded regime of tactical study.
