Water Interactions: A systems view
During the last two decades, the interrelationship between water and energy has become recognized. Likewise, the couplings to food and agriculture are getting increasingly obvious and alarming. In...
Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture
The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions...
Implementing the Water-Energy-Food- Ecosystems Nexus and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
The book’s primary intention is to serve as a roadmap for professionals working in developing countries interested in the Nexus Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) approach. The book shows a multi...
WASH Economics and Financing: towards a better understanding of costs and benefits
The case for investment in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) has been convincingly made. WASH is essential for protecting public health, is a human right and investing in it is compelling from...
Financing Water Supply, Sanitation and Flood Protection: Challenges in EU Member States and Policy Options
The OECD and the Directorate-General for Environment, the European Commission department responsible for EU policy on the environment, joined forces to examine current and future water-related...
Water in Himalayan Towns: Lessons for Adaptive Water Governance
Increasing urbanization and changing climate are two critical stressors that are adversely affecting the biophysical environment of urban areas in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. The book discusses...
Pharmaceutical Residues in Freshwater: Hazards and Policy Responses
This report calls for a better understanding of the effects of pharmaceutical residues in the environment, greater international collaboration and accountability distribution, and policy actions...
Water Stewardship
Achieving true wholesome sustainability requires a change of heart. Hence this book starts in the heart. It asks the timely question of ‘how do we become true water stewards?’ The transformation...
Improving Water Governance in Kathmandu: Insights from Systems Thinking and Behavioral Science
The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out...
We Need to Change to Solve the Water Crisis: Humanity is not a Plague: How 10 Billion People can Exist Together
We need to change to solve the water crisis. It is impossible for 10 billion people to exist together on this Earth – as predicted for the year 2100 – unless the ricer part of the world no longer...