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  title info:
    title: Water Security
    sub title: The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus
  name:
    name part: The World Economic Forum Water Initiative
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 248 p. online resource.
  abstract: The world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiraling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for energy, and for manufacturing are surging. Water is already emerging as a headline geopolitical issue—and worsening water security will soon have dire consequences in many parts of the global economic system. Directed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the 2008 Davos Annual Meeting, the World Economic Forum assembled the world’s foremost group of public, private, non-governmental-organization and academic experts to examine the water crisis issue from all perspectives. The result of their work is this forecast—a stark, non-technical overview of where we will be by 2025 if we take a business-as-usual approach to (mis)managing our water resources. The findings are shocking. Perhaps equally stunning are the potential solutions and the recommendations that the group presents. All are included in this landmark publication. Water Security contains compelling commentary from leading decision-makers, past and present. The commentary is supported by analysis from leading academics of how the world economy will be affected if world leaders cannot agree on solutions. The book suggests how business and politics need to manage the energy-food-water-climate axis as leaders negotiate the details of the climate regime that replace Kyoto Protocols.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus: A Facts and Figures – Overview -- 1. Agriculture. Responding to the Increase in Land and Water Demand to Guarantee Future. Food Security. Water Scarcity: Agriculture Provides Solutions. Improving, Water, Food, and Climate Security: A Novel Approach to Direct Seeding of Rice. Farmers Facing the Water Challenge. Water Challenges in the Arabian Gulf. The High Cost of Priceless Water and Oman’s Ancient Alternative -- 2. Energy. Water and Energy: New Thinking. Burning Up Food as Fuel: The Role of Water. Choke Point: The Collision Between Water and Energy. Solutions from the Sea -- 3. Trade. The Water-Trade Nexus. The Risks and Rewards of Water in Trade. Interlocking Crises of Water Scarcity: How Trade Can Make a Difference. Soft Approaches to Sustainable Intensification for Water Security -- 4. National Security. Trans-boundary Waters and Geopolitics by 2025. Hydro-solidarity as a National Security Foundation. Water in the Arabian Gulf: How to Tell the Story. Land: A Question of Increasing Strategic Importance in Search of Better-Informed Answers. The Water–National Security Nexus: The Case of Pakistan -- 5. Cities. A Socioeconomic Breakdown. Fatal Flooding in Modern Cities. Creating a Wastewater Revolution in Asian Cities: The Concept of Cascading Use. Social Enterprise Solution for Water and Sanitation Facilities in Kenya’s Slums. Urban Water Supply Security and Desalination -- 6. People. The Water Crisis Is Now. Water for People: The Capacity Constraint of Governments Hinders Action. Free Access to the Water Nexus. SaniShop: Transforming the Sanitation Crisis into a Massive Business Opportunity for All -- 7. Business. Global Water Tool. Water in the Value Chain. Water Resource Management and Sustainability. Appendix: A Snapshot of Business Water Leadership -- 8. Finance. Financing Water. Meeting the Water Challenge. Water, Agriculture, and the Pricing of Sustenance. Property Rights to Water for All. An Example of Loca…
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Water pollution
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Hydrogeology
  classification: TD419-428
  classification: 363.7394
  classification: 363.73946
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781610910262
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-026-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 110914
    record change date: 20151204170930.0
    record identifier: 978-1-61091-026-2