BRICS Countries: Sustainable Water Resource Management and Pollution Control - Challenges and Opportunities

This book provides a detailed study and assessment of water resources management and
pollution control in different BRICS countries. The regions involved are
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. This book gives important
insight into how future sustainability depends on the development of effective
water governance mechanisms at the level of countries. According to the
regional characteristics from different aspects it cuts into the water
environment problems and studies in different ways, which is multifaceted and
targeted. Using case studies that include environmentally integrated basin
experiments (eibex) of Brazil, groundwater overflow zone of India, semi-arid
river basin of South Africa and so on, this volume provides critical
information for researchers and policymakers.


Dr. Yiping Li, former vice dean of College of Environment, Hohai University, is a
director of International Cooperation Division and director of Hong Kong, Macao
and Taiwan Office. He is currently responsible for managing research in
comprehensive water environment management, integration of plant network and
mathematical model of water environment. Dr. Yiping Li is also a guest
professor at North Carolina University at Chapel Hill (UNC), a visiting
professor at Alabama University and Windsor University, a key project host of
the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published more than 80 papers
in many peer-reviewed journals as the main author or co-author, covering
environmental field. He has also authored a number of books and book chapters.
He has won four National or Provincial Science and Technology Award.