The World Water Crisis
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The World Water Crisis

The Failures of Resource Management

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The World Water Crisis

The Failures of Resource Management

About this book

In the last decade, water resources planners have frequently signalled an impending water crisis. The message is that the world is running out of water and that only by careful planning and the adoption of integrated water resources management can catastrophe be avoided. Stephen Brichieri-Colombi challenges these perceptions. He maintains that the crisis is one of resource management rather than availability: it arises because water resource planners advocate exploitation of rivers without due regard to social, environmental and geopolitical consequences. The author advances a new paradigm - water in the national economy - which will enable developing countries to meet future food and water demands without increasing abstraction from rivers and consequential riparian conflict. This is a powerful re-appraisal of the development of global water resources.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781845117535
eBook ISBN
9780857718020

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Water in crisis
  8. 2. Weasel words of water
  9. 3. Two large basins
  10. 4. Unnatural relations
  11. 5. Water lawlessness
  12. 6. Basin anarchy
  13. 7. Illusions of optimality
  14. 8. Beyond the river
  15. 9. Changing populations
  16. 10 Supersizing the world
  17. 11. Diets in transition
  18. 12. Food for all
  19. 13. Shopping around for food
  20. 14. Blue and green energy
  21. 15. Changing the paradigm
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index