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Water and the future of humanity : revisiting water security / the Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity.

Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Springer, [2014]Description: xxi, 241 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3319014560
  • 9783319014562 (cloth)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TD353 .W3375 2014
Contents:
Our Water, Our Future -- Drivers of Water Demand, Course Changes, and Outcomes -- Water Management in a Variable and Changing Climate -- Water for a Healthy Environment -- Integrated Urban Water Resources Management -- Water and Food Security: Growing Uncertainties and New Opportunities -- Water and Energy -- Water Projections and Scenarios: Thinking About Our Future -- Our Water Future: Leadership and Individual Responsibility.
Summary: This unique, engaging, and highly authoritative volume enlightens readers on changes needed in the way society accesses, provides, and uses water. It further shines a light on changes needed in the way we use food, energy, and other goods and services in relation to water, and offers projections and recommendations, up to 2050, that apply to water access challenges facing the poor and the common misuse of water in industry, agriculture, and municipalities. Written by an unparalleled slate of experts convened by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the book takes on one of the most critical issues on the planet today. In a frank yet optimistic assessment of major developmental challenges, but also opportunities, facing future generations, the author elucidates linkages between water and a range of other drivers from various disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives. Ultimately portraying the belief that Humanity can harness its visionary abilities, technologies, and economic resources for increased wellbeing and sound stewardship of resources, the book presents an optimistic statement stressing actions scientists, policy makers, and consumers can and must take to meet the water management challenges of a warming planet anticipating nine billion inhabitants by 2050.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks TD353 .W3375 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001295848

This unique, engaging, and highly authoritative volume enlightens readers on changes needed in the way society accesses, provides, and uses water. It further shines a light on changes needed in the way we use food, energy, and other goods and services in relation to water, and offers projections and recommendations, up to 2050, that apply to water access challenges facing the poor and the common misuse of water in industry, agriculture, and municipalities. Written by an unparalleled slate of experts convened by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the book takes on one of the most critical issues on the planet today. In a frank yet optimistic assessment of major developmental challenges, but also opportunities, facing future generations, the author elucidates linkages between water and a range of other drivers from various disciplinary and stakeholder perspectives. Ultimately portraying the belief that Humanity can harness its visionary abilities, technologies, and economic resources for increased wellbeing and sound stewardship of resources, the book presents an optimistic statement stressing actions scientists, policy makers, and consumers can and must take to meet the water management challenges of a warming planet anticipating nine billion inhabitants by 2050.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236)

Our Water, Our Future -- Drivers of Water Demand, Course Changes, and Outcomes -- Water Management in a Variable and Changing Climate -- Water for a Healthy Environment -- Integrated Urban Water Resources Management -- Water and Food Security: Growing Uncertainties and New Opportunities -- Water and Energy -- Water Projections and Scenarios: Thinking About Our Future -- Our Water Future: Leadership and Individual Responsibility.

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