TY - BOOK ID - 11264635 TI - Sustaining East Asia's water resources management through green water defense AU - Li, Xiaokai. AU - Turner, Graeme. AU - Jiang, Liping. PY - 2012 SN - 0821395882 9786613719898 0821395971 1280878584 PB - Washington D.C. : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Global water scarcity. KW - Integrated water development. KW - Water resources management. KW - Water resources development KW - Water-supply KW - Business & Economics KW - Agricultural Economics KW - Management KW - Availability, Water KW - Water availability KW - Water resources KW - Natural resources KW - Public utilities KW - Water utilities KW - Energy development UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11264635 AB - Water scarcity is increasingly becoming a threat to water security in different countries or areas of East Asia, driven by water over-withdrawal and pollution, and aggravated by climate change and variability. The 'Green Water Defense in East Asia' study, as part of the driver for green growth in the water sector of East Asia region, seeks to find a sustainable solution to this challenge. The concept of Green Water Defense (GWD) is developed building on such principles as 'live and build with nature', 'green adaptation', 'produce more with less' and 'low impact development', etc. It is defined ER -