Putting Water Security to Work

Chad Staddon is a Professor of Resource Economics and Policy at the University of the West of England. His research focusses on the social, political and economic issues related to water services, particularly drinking water. Current projects include the historical geography of urban water systems around the world, water-energy trade offs in unconventional oil and gas operations and appropriate socio-technologies for achieving universal access to safe water (SDG6). He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Kentucky in 1996 for research on the political economy of water (mis)management in post-communist Bulgaria.Christopher A. Scott is the Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Professor of Geography, Development & Environment at the University of Arizona. Scott is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on water, energy and food policy. His research and engagement address the policy dimensions of global change (climate change and urban growth) with particular emphasis on water and energy security, climate adaptation, urban wastewater and water reuse, agricultural-urban water transfers and transboundary water resources. He has lived and worked in South Asia and Latin America. Scott received PhD and MS degrees from Cornell University.

• Introduction: Rethinking Water Security in a Globalised World: Steps to Meeting SDG6 Chad Staddon and Christopher A. Scott1. Putting water security to work: addressing global challengesChad Staddon and Christopher A. Scott2. Is water security just? Concepts, tools and missing linksSarah Wade3. Challenges in meeting water security and resilienceVijay P. Singh4. The cultural dimensions of household water security: the case of Kathmandu’s stone spout systemsOlivia Molden, Nicholas Griffin and Katie Meehan5. Contested access: improving water security through benefit sharingBimo A. Nkhata6. Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central UgandaChad Staddon, Josh Rogers, Calum Warriner, Sarah Ward and Wayne Powell7. Water security and the pursuit of food, energy, and earth systems resilienceChristopher A. Scott, Tamee R. Albrecht, Rafael De Grenade, Adriana Zuniga-Teran, Robert G. Varady and Bhuwan Thapa8. Unraveling transboundary water security in the arid AmericasTamee R. Albrecht, Robert G. Varady, Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Andrea K. Gerlak, Rafael Routson De Grenade, América Lutz-Ley, Facundo Martín, Sharon B. Megdal, Francisco Meza, Diego Ocampo Melgar, Nicolás Pineda, Facundo Rojas, Rossi Taboada and Bram Willems9. De-nationalization and de-securitization of transboundary water resources: the Israeli–Palestinian caseDavid B. Brooks and Julie Trottier