The Global Water System in the Anthropocene

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Global Water System: Current State and Future Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Balancing the Needs of All Services Provided by Global Water Resources

      • Elizabeth Curmi, Keith Richards, Richard Fenner, Grant M. Kopec, Bojana Bajželj

      Pages 3-14

   3. Performance Indicators in the Water Resources Management Sector

      • Balázs M. Fekete, Eugene Z. Stakhiv

      Pages 15-26

   4. Virtual Water and Trade: A Critical Economic Review

      • Erik Gawel

      Pages 27-43

   5. Data, Models and Uncertainties in the Global Water Cycle

      • R. J. Harding, A. J. Dolman, D. Gerten, I. Haddeland, C. Prudhomme, P. van Oevelen

      Pages 45-58

   6. Integrated Assessments of Water Scarcity: Knowns, Unknowns and Ways Forward

      • Tabea K. Lissner, Caroline A. Sullivan, Dominik E. Reusser, Jürgen P. Kropp

      Pages 59-72

   7. A Global Approach to Estimating the Benefit-Cost Ratio of Water Supply Measures in the Agricultural Sector

      • A. K. Schürkmann, A. Biewald, S. Rolinski

      Pages 73-87

3. Dimensions of Change in River Basins and Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-90

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   2. The Role of Institutions and Water Variability in Food Security in Uzbekistan: The Case of Rice Markets in the Khorezm Region

      • Yadira Mori-Clement, Anik Bhaduri, Nodir Djanibekov

      Pages 91-104

   3. Dams on Shared Rivers: The Concept of Benefit Sharing

      • Waltina Scheumann, Ines Dombrowsky, Oliver Hensengerth

      Pages 105-123

   4. Challenges and Solutions for Urban-Tourist Water Supply on Mediterranean Tourist Islands: The Case of Majorca, Spain

      • Angela Hof, Macià Blázquez-Salom, Margalida Comas Colom, Alfredo Barón Périz

      Pages 125-142

   5. Unconventional Water Resources of Agricultural Origin and Their Re-utilization Potential for Development of Desert Land Aquaculture in the Aral Sea Basin

      • B. K. Karimov, M. Matthies, B. G. Kamilov

      Pages 143-159

   6. A Historian’s Perspective on Rivers of the Anthropocene

      • Philip V. Scarpino

      Pages 161-171

   7. Transdisciplinarity, Human-Nature Entanglements, and Transboundary Water Systems in the Anthropocene

      • Jason M. Kelly

      Pages 173-182

   8. Eastern European Perspective on the Environmental Aspects in Current Flood Risk Management: The Example of the Czech Republic

      • Blanka Loučková

      Pages 183-195

   9. Adaptive Irrigation Management in Drought Contexts: Institutional Robustness and Cooperation in the Riegos del Alto Aragon Project (Spain)

      • Sergio Villamayor-Tomas

      Pages 197-212

4. Ecosystem Perspectives in Water Resources Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-214

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   2. The Missing Piece in the Conservation Puzzle: Cohesion Among Environmental, Economic and Social Dimensions

      • Francisco A. R. Barbosa, Paulina M. Maia-Barbosa, Diego G. F. Pujoni, Lorena T. Oporto

      Pages 215-227

   3. Integrating Input-Output Modeling with Multi-criteria Analysis to Assess Options for Sustainable Economic Transformation: The Case of Uzbekistan

      • Maksud Bekchanov, Anik Bhaduri, Manfred Lenzen, John P. A. Lamers

      Pages 229-245

The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, relates institutional and technological innovations and identifies in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management. Until the industrial revolution, human beings and their activities played an insignificant role influencing the dynamics of the Earth system, the sum of our planet‘s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Today, humankind even exceeds nature in terms of changing the biosphere and affecting all other facets of Earth system functioning. A growing number of scientists argue that humanity has entered a new geological epoch that needs a corresponding name: the Anthropocene. Human activities impact the global water system as part of the Earth system and change the way water moves around the globe like never before. Thus, managing freshwater use wisely in the planetary water cycle has become a key challenge to reach global environmental sustainability.

• GWSP
• Global Environmental Change
• Global Water System
• Planetary Water Cycle
• Water Governance
• Water Policy
• Water Resources
• Water in the Anthropocene
• climate change impacts
• Climate change management

• Global Water System Project, Bonn, Germany

  Anik Bhaduri, Janos Bogardi, Sina Marx

• UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

  Jan Leentvaar

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