The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities Challe
The population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without co
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Basant Maheshwari Ramesh Purohit Hector Malano Vijay P. Singh Priyanie Amerasinghe Editors
The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures
The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities
Water Science and Technology Library VOLUME 71
Editor-in-Chief Vijay P. Singh, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA Editorial Advisory Board M. Anderson, Bristol, UK L. Bengtsson, Lund, Sweden J. F. Cruise, Huntsville, USA S. E. Serrano, Philadelphia, USA D. Stephenson, Gaborone, Botswana W. G. Strupczewski, Warsaw, Poland
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Editors Basant Maheshwari School of Science and Health University of Western Sydney Penrith Australia Ramesh Purohit Colleges of Technology and Agricultural Engineering Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology Udaipur India
Vijay P. Singh Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering Texas A&M University College Station, TX USA Priyanie Amerasinghe International Water Management Institute Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh India
Hector Malano Department of Infrastructure Engineering University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC Australia
ISSN 0921-092X ISBN 978-94-017-8877-9 ISBN 978-94-017-8878-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8878-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London
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