Handbook on Water Security

Edited by Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Professor for Resources Management, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Anik Bhaduri, Executive Director, Sustainable Water Future Programme (formerly Global Water System Project), Australia and Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam and Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment, IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands

‘This is a very exciting book. Water security is a current and very important topic, but at the same time, the term is used in many different ways. Rather than suppressing this diversity, it is embraced here and used as a strength to illuminate the various possible meanings of the term - and their implications, which are assessed in a critical way by a group of excellent authors. This book will play a central role in the debate on water governance for years to come.’

• Contents:1. Water Security: A Popular but Contested ConceptClaudia Pahl-Wostl, Joyeeta Gupta and Anik BhaduriPART I: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES2. Water Security: Critical Analysis of Emerging Trends and DefinitionsChristina Cook and Karen Bakker3. Water Security: Past, Present and Future of a Controversial ConceptJanos Bogardi, Úrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch4. Water Securities and the Individual: Challenges from Human Security to ConsumerismJeremy Allouche, Alan Nicol, Lyla Mehta and Shilpi Srivastava5. The Social Construction of Water Security Discourses: Preliminary Evidence and Policy Implications from the Middle EastItay Fischhendler and Daniel Nathan6. Water Security, Systemic Risks and Adaptive Water Governance and ManagementClaudia Pahl-Wostl 7. How Trade Policies Can Help to Achieve Water Security in a Transboundary SettingAnik Bhaduri8. Water Sovereignty and Security, High Politics and Hard Power: The Dangers of Borrowing Discourses!Joyeeta Gupta, Joseph W. Dellapenna and Marcel van den Heuvel PART II: THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES 9. Perspectives on Climates Change Impacts and Water SecurityFulco Ludwig, Henk van Schaik, John H. Matthews, Diego Rodriguez, Marloes H.N. Bakker, Patrick Huntjens, Karin Lexén and Peter Droogers10. Groundwater and SecurityKirstin I. Conti, Neno Kukurić and Joyeeta Gupta11. Role of Water Security for Agricultural and Economic Development – Concepts and Global ScenariosClaudia Ringler, Tingju Zhu, Sebastian Gruber, Ronan Treguer, Laurent Auguste, Lee Addams, Nicola Cenacchi and Timothy B. Sulser12. Human Security and Access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: Exploring the Drivers and NexusPedi Obani and Joyeeta Gupta13. The Ecology of Water SecurityBen Stewart-Koster and Stuart E. Bunn14. Water Security and Environmental Water needs: The Role of The Ecosystem Services Concept and Transformation of Governance Systems Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Kathrin Knüppe15. Secure Water Supply in Water-Scarce RegionsFrancisco Meza and Christopher A. ScottPART III REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES16. Water Security or Water ‘Securities’? Increasing Complexity in Balancing of Multiple Goals in SpainElena López-Gunn, Mario Ballesteros, Lucia De Stefano, Alberto Garrido, Nuria Hernández-Mora and Bárbara A. Willaarts17. Water Security in Southern Africa: Discourses Securitising Water and the Implications for Water Governance and Politics Richard Meissner18. Water Security – China Perspective Hong Yang and Junguo Liu, Jun Xia19. Water Security in Southeast Asia Region Felino P. Lansigan and Amparo C. dela Cruz20. Australian Water Security: A Water–Food–Enironment–Energy Nexus Perspective M.J. Patrick, Sondoss Elsawah, Isabela Burgher and Anthony J. JakemanIndex