Confronting Water Insecurity
Global Institutions and the Transformation of Water Science, Policy, and Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 May 2026
- ISBN 9781496233448
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Index 700
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Long description:
Confronting Water Insecurity provides an account of the role of multilateral cooperation and global institutions in transforming science, policy, and practice for water security from 1945 to 2024, a period characterized by significant disparities in water security between low- and high-income countries, ever-rising water use, and growing concerns about the harms of climate change and other disturbances on the global water cycle.
Roberto L. Lenton tells how the scientific and policy response to these new challenges has become more global and integrated, and describes the role of global institutions in addressing fundamental global water issues with long-term implications for sustainability. Following the quest for water security as it transformed from an issue driven primarily by local or national interests into one of global concern, Lenton offers lessons from the successes and failures from 1945 to 2024 that will help us imagine the new approaches we need to ensure that the world can meet the next generation of water challenges. Beyond the world of water, he provides insights into how we can better address the global challenges that arise from humanity's complex relationships with the natural world.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Transformational Change in the Quest for Water Security
Part 1. The International Development Stage: From the Mid-1940s to the Early 1970s
1. Decolonization, Development, and the Creation of an International Institutional Architecture
2. Water Management in the Development Era
Part 2. The Sustainability Stage: From the Early 1970s Through the 1990s
3. Reconciling Environment and Development Perspectives
4. The 1977 UN Water Conference and the 1980s
5. The 1992 Earth Summit and Water Systems Thinking
6. Shifting Directions: Water After the Earth Summit
Part 3.The Global Goals Stage: From 2000 to 2024
7. Ambitious Global Goals amid Waning Multilateral Cooperation
8. Water Science, Policy, and Practice for the Millennium Development Goals
9. Water Science, Policy, and Practice for the Sustainable Development Goals
Conclusions: Imagining a New Approach
Notes
Bibliography
Index
