Water for food in a changing world / / edited by Alberto Garrido and Helen Ingram

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789995603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-80815-9; 1-283-12696-6; 9786613126962; 1-136-80816-7; 0-203-82841-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Collana: Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy ; ; 2
• Altri autori (Persone): GarridoAlberto <1964->; IngramHelen M. <1937->
• Disciplina: 363.6/1
• Soggetti: Water-supply - Management; Water-supply - Management - International cooperation; Integrated water development; Food security; Environmental policy - International cooperation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Water for food in a changing world / Robert Sandford -- Optimising water productivity in food production / Elías Fereres -- Modern agricultural under stress : lessons from the Murray Darling in Australia / Wendy Craik and James Cleaver -- Integrated watershed management / Akissa Bahri ... [et al.] -- Lessons from Spain : a critical of assessment of the role of science and society / Alberto Garrido and Ana Iglesias -- Integrating agricultural water use with the global water budget / Malin Falkenmarkt and Johan Rockström -- Globalisation of water through virtual water trade / Hong Yang -- Balancing water for people and nature / Uriel Safriel -- Optimising water for life / Daniel Loucks -- Water science and policy in a changing world : implications of non-stationary hydrology, ecolomics and politics / John Briscoe -- Promises under construction : the evolving paradigm for water governance and ; the case of northern Mexico / Margaret Wilder -- Beyond universal remedies for good water governance : a political and contextual approach / Helen Ingram -- Water policies in Spain : balancing water for food and water for nature / Consuelo Varela-Ortega -- Can the world feed itself sustainably? / Alberto Garrido, Helen Ingram and Robert Sandford.
• Sommario/riassunto: There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us. Water supply bubbles are bursting in China, the Middle East and India with potentially serious implications for the global economy and for political stability. Even the United States is depleting groundwater on average 25% faster than it is being replenished. Our thirst for water grows with our population, but the amount of fresh water available on Earth is fixed. If we assume ""business as usual"" by 2050 about 40% of the projected global population of 9.4 billion is expected to be facing water s