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Author : Randolph Barker
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9290904100
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Water Scarcity/Poverty written by Randolph Barker and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley J. Hansen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 8770223351
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Water Poverty written by Shirley J. Hansen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt, even kill, millions of children, and the window of opportunity to do something about it is rapidly closing. There is, however, a glimmer of hope that could turn into rays of sunshine. Water is a commodity, and we have just come through some painful times dealing with the shortage of another commodity—energy. For those who lived through the "energy crisis," this book offers a brief trip down memory lane.
Author : Randolph Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Water Scarcity and Poverty written by Randolph Barker and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Myles Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135724202
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins written by Myles Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book present a different picture. While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and sustainable development of resources. The first part of this book provides detailed insight into conditions of water flows within nine river basins. In the second part, authors summarize and re-analyze the outcome of the nine basins, providing a coherent global picture of water, water productivity and development. They assess the impacts of variations of these attributes on development and approaches for poverty alleviation, and explore the institutional factors that support or obstruct change. How people will manage river systems while protecting vital ecosystem functions will make the difference between catastrophe and survival. As Prof Asit Biswas points out, "... the world is facing a water crisis not because of physical scarcity of water but because of poor management practices in nearly all countries of the world." The book is based on the four years (2006-2010) of extensive research into the state of ten of the world’s major river basins carried out under the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food’s Basin Focal Project. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.
Author : Britt Debes Rasmussen
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783844380064
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Impacts of Water Scarcity on the Prospects for Poverty Alleviation written by Britt Debes Rasmussen and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inequality is not set to decrease and the rising number of poverty stricken people is set to clash when both water and food availability becomes even scarcer. As previous food exporters such as China and India becomes importers the battle for underground water and fertile lands, on which to grow food and fuel, will put much of the resource rich Africa in an even more exposed situation. Many parts of SSA suffer from a physical water scarcity but for the majority the scarcity is an economic water scarcity. If national governments and development organizations do not shape up quickly to protect SSA from water exploitation the consequences will be serious. There is a right way and a wrong way to deal with water scarcity. There are dangers in food-availability, health, land-grapping, conflict escalation etc. The main issues are all addressed here in an attempt to give insight and oversight of the current situation and the issues to tackle before aquifers are dried out completely.
Author : Gordon McGranahan
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843692317
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Demand-side Water Strategies and the Urban Poor written by Gordon McGranahan and published by IIED. This book was released on 2002 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry W. Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317916379
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Water Scarcity, Livelihoods and Food Security written by Larry W. Harrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the evolution of ten years’ learning and discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. It draws on the experiences of over 100 projects conducted in ten river basins in the developing world. The book describes how the program’s design evolved from an emphasis on water scarcity, water productivity, and water access to an emphasis on using water innovations to improve livelihoods and address development challenges in specific river basins. It shows how the research was used to foster change in stakeholder behavior, linking it to improved knowledge, attitudes, and skills, which were fostered by stakeholder participation, innovation, dialogue, and negotiation. The authors describe development challenges, their drivers and their political context, how to address them through technical, institutional, and policy innovations; and the consequences of change at different scales, time frames on equity, resilience, and ecosystem services. Overall, the work represents a major synthesis and landmark publication for all concerned with water resource management and sustainable development.
Author : Shirley J. Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881737592
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Water Poverty written by Shirley J. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara C. P. Koppen
Publisher : IWMI
ISBN 13 : 9066870699
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Climbing the Water Ladder written by Barbara C. P. Koppen and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2009 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local government can be the pivot to make this happen.
Author : Stephane Hallegatte
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464806748
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Beyond Scarcity written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorte Verner
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821383787
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Reducing Poverty, Protecting Livelihoods, and Building Assets in a Changing Climate written by Dorte Verner and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change and variability threaten to reverse recent progress in poverty reduction and economic growth. Both now and over the long run, climate change and variability threatens human and social development by restricting the fulfillment of human potential and by disempowering people and communities in reducing their livelihoods options. Communities across Latin America and the Caribbean are already experiencing adverse consequences from climate change and variability. Precipitation has increased in the southeastern part of South America, and now often comes in the form of sudden deluges, leading to flooding and soil erosion that endanger people s lives and livelihoods. Southwestern parts of South America and western Central America are seeing a decrease in precipitation and an increase in droughts. Increasing heat and drought in Northeast Brazil threaten the livelihoods of already-marginal smallholders, and may turn parts of the eastern Amazon rainforest into savannah. The Andean inter-tropical glaciers are shrinking and expected to disappear altogether within the next 20-40 years, with significant consequences for water availability. These environmental changes will impact local livelihoods in unprecedented ways. Poverty, inequality, water access, health, and migration are and will be measurably affected by climate change. Using an innovative research methodology, this study finds quantitative evidence of large variations in impacts across regions. Many already poor regions are becoming poorer; traditional livelihoods are being challenged in unprecedented ways; water scarcity is increasing, particularly in poor arid areas; human health is deteriorating; and climate-induced migration is already taking place and may increase. Successfully reducing social vulnerability to climate change and variability requires action and commitment at multiple levels. This volume offers key operational recommendations at the government, community, and household levels with particular emphasis placed on enhancing good governance and technical capacity in the public sector, building social capital in local communities, and protecting the asset base of poor households.
Author : Ken Conca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199335087
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy written by Ken Conca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.
Author : K. William Easter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401790817
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Water Markets for the 21st Century written by K. William Easter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs. The book examines markets in seven countries and three different U.S. states, ranging from village-level water markets in Oman to basin wide formal water markets in Australia's Murray-Darling River basin. Introductory chapters on the background of water markets and on transaction costs and policy design are followed by chapter length discussion of water markets as an adaptive response to climate change and of supply reliability in a changing climate. Case studies describe a variety of facets of the design and function of markets around the world: California, Chile, Spain, Oman, Australia, Canada, India and China. In analyzing these real-world examples of markets, the contributors explore water rights and trading of rights between agricultural and urban sectors and the principles and function of option markets. They discuss different sized approaches, from large scale, ministry-level administration of markets to informal arrangements among farmers in the same village, or groups of villages which allocate water without large investment in management and infrastructure. Discussion includes questions of why water market practices have not expanded more rapidly in arid places. The book discusses mechanisms for resolving conflicts between water rights holders as well as between water right holders and third parties impacted by water trades and whether or not public ownership of water rights or use rights should trump private ownership and under what condition. Also covered are new and expanding categories of water use, beyond human consumption, agriculture and industry to new technologies ranging from extracting natural gas from shale to producing biofuels. The book concludes with suggestions for future water markets and offers a realistic picture of how they might change water use and distribution practices going forward.
Author : I.H. Olcay Ünver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461504236
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Water Development and Poverty Reduction written by I.H. Olcay Ünver and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book's four Parts, the interdisciplinary approach to many issues contributes to the relationship between water and poverty. Part I includes articles on the conceptual and methodological issues concerning poverty reduction through water resources development. It also offers analysis of quantitative measurements of poverty reduction, including some approaches for creating a Water Poverty Index. Part II considers the institutional frameworks for management of water and poverty reduction. Topics range from community-based decision making to international leadership. Part III encompasses discussions on participatory irrigation management and the privatization of urban water supplies and sewerage and the link to poverty. Case studies from India, Turkey, and Jordan make up Part IV. The studies present diverse water management and development practices for poverty reduction, including realistic pricing and effective irrigation practices, the use of water as an engine for sustainable development, small and large scale strategies for reducing the risks and uncertainties in water availability and food security, the economic value of improved water supplies, and the positive impact of small-scale development projects.
Author : Luis Santos Pereira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402095791
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Coping with Water Scarcity written by Luis Santos Pereira and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main problems confronting the world of the 21st Century is a shortage of water. There is already severe scarcity in many regions of the world, causing tremendous problems for local populations and indeed entire societies. There is insufficient water available for the production of food to alleviate poverty and starvation; the lack of water hampers industrial, urban and tourism development, forcing restrictions on other sectors, especially agriculture; health problems arise as the deterioration of ground and surface waters favours water-borne diseases, which flourish in the absence of decent water distribution and sewerage systems. Water conflicts still arise in areas under stress, while water for nature has become a vanishing priority in such zones. This book is a guide to the establishment of regional and/or local guidelines for developing and implementing new ideas for coping with water scarcity. The basic premise underlying the book is that water scarcity will persist, so personal, human and society-wide skills will be needed to cope with it while living in harmony with the necessary environmental constraints. The book provides basic information to assist decision makers, water managers, engineers, agronomists, social scientists and other professions (and their students) in formulating coherent, hopefully harmonious and consolidated views on the issue. Guidelines are also given for introducing the general public to the concept of water scarcity and how to deal with it.
Author : Francis Onditi
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838357249
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Drivers of Water Poverty written by Francis Onditi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty research findings in Less Developed Countries have revealed a strong relationship between poverty and lack of access to quality water. This has generated concerns by International Development Frameworks such as the Millennium Development Goals to focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable environmental management. The relationship between water scarcity and levels of poverty is well articulated in this book. In Kenya, access to adequate water and sanitation services are obviously central to the achievement of Kenyan Vision 2030 and MDGs. It is relevant to note that improved water is an important for poverty eradication as well as sustainable development. Water poverty represents a key challenge to Kenya, and more so the community around the Lake Victoria Basin whose livelihoods depend on exploitation of water resources. Policy recommendations of the book shall be of interest to experts, consultants, researchers and planners water resource management and development. The book is of immediate use to the students of water governance, politics of water, environmental science, geography and social sciences both at undergraduate and post-graduate levels.
