Putting Water Security to Work: Addressing Global Sustainable Development Challenges

Water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water, offering benefits and challenges. This collection offers a radical repositioning of these debates updated to reflect the concerns of our post-pandemic world, examining how water security articulates with locality and culture, operates across spatial scales, and its moral/ethical resonances.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 172 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Over the past decade, water security has emerged as the primary focus for understanding how we manage water resources. This shift in perspective has brought about several advantages, such as a heightened awareness of the interconnectedness between humans, the environment, and the right to water. However, it has also presented certain challenges, particularly the tendency to narrowly interpret water security solely in terms of geopolitical or economic "securitization."

In this collection, the authors aim to offer a fresh and radical reorientation of these discussions, tailored to the realities of our post-pandemic world. The chapters within this volume explore a diverse range of themes, including the interplay between water security and local contexts and cultures, its operation across various spatial scales, and its ethical and moral implications.

The chapters in this book were originally published in esteemed journals such as "Water International" and "International Journal of Water Resources Development."

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367650209