Handbook on water security /

Water security has received increasing attention in the scientific and public policy communities in recent years. The Handbook on Water Security is a much-needed resource that helps the reader navigate between the differing interpretations of water security. It explains the various dimensions of the...

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Other Authors: Pahl-Wostl, Claudia (Editor), Bhaduri, Anik (Editor), Gupta, Joyeeta, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2016]
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Table of Contents:
  • Water security: a popular but contested concept / Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Joyeeta Gupta and Anik Bhaduri
  • Conceptual perspectives. Water security: critical analysis of emerging trends and definitions / Christina Cook and Karen Bakker ; Water security: past, present and future of a controversial concept / Janos Bogardi, Úrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch ; Water securities and the individual: challenges from human security to consumerism / Jeremy Allouche, Alan Nicol, Lyla Mehta and Shilpi Srivastava ; The social construction of water security discourses: preliminary evidence and policy implications from the Middle East / Itay Fischhendler and Daniel Nathan ; Water security, systemic risks and adaptive water governance and management / Claudia Pahl-Wostl ; How trade policies can help to achieve water security in a transboundary setting / Anik Bhaduri ; Water sovereignty and security, high politics and hard power: the dangers of borrowing discourses! / Joyeeta Gupta, Joseph W. Dellapenna and Marcel van den Heuvel
  • Thematic perspectives. Perspectives on climate change impacts and water security / Fulco Ludwig, Henk van Schaik, John H. Matthews, Diego Rodriquez, Marloes H.N. Bakker, Patrick Huntjens, Karin Lexén and Peter Droogers ; Groundwater and security / Kirstin I. Conti, Neno Kukurić and Joyeeta Gupta ; .Role of water security for agricultural and economic development
  • concepts and global scenarios / Claudia Ringler, Tingju Zhu, Sebastian Gruber, Ronan Treguer, Laurent Auguste, Lee Addams, Nicola Cenacchi and Timothy B. Sulser ; .Human security and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene: exploring the drivers and nexus / Pedi Obani and Joyeeta Gupta ; The ecology of water security / Ben Stewart-Koster and Stuart E. Bunn ; Water security and environmental water needs: the role of the ecosystem services concept and transformation of governance systems / Claudi Pahl-Wostl and Kathrin Knüppe ; Secure water supply in water-scarce regions / Francisco Meza and Christopher A. Scott
  • Regional perspectives. .Water security or water 'securities'? Increasing complexity in balancing of multiple goals in Spain / Elena López-Gunn, Mario Ballesteros, Lucia De Stefano, Alberto Garrido, Nuria Hernández-Mora and Bárbara A. Willaarts ; .Water security in Southern Africa: discourses securitising water and the implications for water governance and politics / Richard Meissner ; Water security
  • China perspective / Hong Yang, Junguo Liu and Jun Xia ; Water security in Southeast Asia region / Felino P. Lansigan and Amparo C. dela Cruz ; Australian water security: a water
  • food
  • environment
  • energy nexus perspective / Marian J. Patrick, Sondoss Elsawah, Isabela Burgher and Anthony J. Jakeman.