Overview
- Explores some future scenarios and opens a new question to best deal with future challenges
- Opens with introduction and subregional overview, offering rationale of the regional approach
- Introduces complex links between water, energy, and food security
- Is open access which means that there is free and unlimited access to the content
Part of the book series: Water Security in a New World (WSEC)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Regional Overview
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Regional Issues of the Pacific
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Cross-Cutting Themes for Security
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An Integrated Approach
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About this book
This Pacific volume is focussed on water, energy and food security in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) and the challenges produced by the impacts of anthropogenic climate change and human population pressures. The diversity of culture, traditional knowledge and ways of life across the Pacific are united by similar geographies and opportunities to apply a ‘Pacific specific’ WEF nexus approach; a coordinated approach to manage water, energy and food that is centred on active decision making across the three sectors to increase the security of each. Importantly, a WEF nexus approach builds on national and international efforts to date in the Pacific which include Integrated Water Resource Management, Ridge to Reef, Source to Sea, UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, Integrated Coastal Zone Management and other similar approaches.
In this book, contributions by authors from governments, regional bodies, multilateral agencies, and academia describe water security and its intersectionality with both the energy and food sectors, highlighting the significance of both land and marine food systems and connectivity between water and energy in a Pacific-focussed context. It is demonstrated that these systems cannot be separated from the challenges associated with healthy environments and functioning ecological services, transport, and waste that are unique to this vast archipelagic region. To achieve meaningful change, it is essential that solutions are cognizant of the world’s colonial past and the global inequalities that persist today. The path forward for water and food systems is one that is Pasifika-led and builds on traditional knowledge and local capacity. National energy demands must consider the future with solutions comprising both WEF-integrated approaches and new energy technologies to hasten the transition away from fossil fuels. Globally, major greenhouse gas emitters both past and present need to step up for the environmental and economic benefit of all by rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supporting Pasifika leadership on highly ambitious net zero goals.
This book is a highly recommended source of information and inspiration for policy makers, decision makers, research communities and practitioners dealing with any aspect of water, energy, or food security in the Pacific.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
Book Subtitle: The Pacific
Editors: Andrew Dansie, Heidi K. Alleway, Benno Böer
Series Title: Water Security in a New World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25463-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25462-8Published: 16 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25465-9Due: 17 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25463-5Published: 15 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2367-4008
Series E-ISSN: 2367-4016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 471
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Water, general, Food Science, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Human Geography, Natural Hazards, Social Sciences, general