Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South

‘The Nexus’ in an Era of Climate Change

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvLarry A. Swatuk,Corrine Cash,Larry a. Swatuk

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Agriculture accounts for 70% of global water withdrawals, food production accounts for 30% of global energy use and a rising global population requires more of everything.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-29
Mått148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Political Economy Series
Antal sidor340
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319877020

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Larry A. Swatuk is Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also Extraordinary Professor at the Institute of Water Studies at the University of Western Cape, South Africa and Associate Researcher, Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC) in Bonn, Germany. Corrine Cash is Lecturer at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is Executive Director of Green Cities Solutions, and former Senior Advisor to the President of Cape Breton University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Cash is an urban planner with extensive experience in community development.

Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Nexus: Water, Energy and Food Security in an Era of Climate Change.- Chapter 2. Water, Energy and Food: The Problematic Aspects of the Transition from ‘Silo Approach’ to ‘Nexus Approach’ in the Arab Region.- Chapter 3. Natural Capital Accounting and Ecosystem Services within the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Local and Regional contexts.- Chapter 4. Pigs, Prawns and Power Houses: Politics in Water Resources Management.- Chapter 5. Mitigating the Korle Lagoon Ecological Pollution Problem in Accra, Ghana through a Framework for Urban Management of the Environment (FUME).- Chapter 6. La Plata River Basin: The Production of Scale in South American Hydropolitics.- Chapter 7. The Social Flows of Water in the Global South: Recognizing the Water–Gender–Health ‘Nexus’.- Chapter 8. Water as Threat and Solution: Improving Health Outcomes in Developing Country Contexts.- Chapter 9. Household Water Insecurity in Different Settlement Categories of Ngamiland, Botswana.- Chapter 10. Evolution or Illusion? The Okavango Delta Management Planning Process Versus the Conventional Planning System in the Face of Climate Change and Variability in Botswana.- Chapter 11. Evaluating an Agri-Environmental Network and its Role in Collaborative Problem-Solving.- Chapter 12. The New Green Revolution: Enhancing Rainfed Agriculture for Food and Nutrition Security in Eastern Africa.- Chapter 13. Afterward: Closing Thoughts on the Water–Food–Energy–Climate Nexus.