Overview
- Highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities
- Contributions include leading experts from academia, industry and governmental organizations
- Discusses measures to improve and achieve the UN sustainable development goals, post-COVID-19
Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Perspectives
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Case Studies
Keywords
About this book
Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Chapter 12 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Asit K. Biswas is one of the world’s leading authorities on water, environment and development-related issues. He is a distinguished academic and has been an advisor and confidant to Presidents, Prime Ministers and Ministers in 23 countries, six Heads of United Nations Agencies, two Secretary-Generals of OECD, several Heads of bilateral aid agencies and four CEOs or Chairmen of major MNCs. He has received numerous international awards, including Stockholm Water Prize, considered to be the Nobel Prize for water. He is a recipient of seven Honorary Doctorates from leading global universities; he is the author of 89 books. His work has been translated into 42 languages.
Cecilia Tortajada has been an advisor to major international institutions like FAO, UNDP, JICA, ADB, OECD, IDRC and GIZ and has worked in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe on water and natural resources management and environment policies. She is the winner of the prestigious Crystal Drop Award of the International Water Resources Association and a member of the International Selection Committee, Millennium Technology Prize, Technology Academy Finland. She is a past President of the International Water Resources Association and an editor‐in‐chief of the International Journal of Water Resources Development. She is a leading global authority on urban water and wastewater management, and her work has been translated into eight languages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Security Under Climate Change
Editors: Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada
Series Title: Water Resources Development and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5493-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5492-3Published: 29 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5495-4Published: 30 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5493-0Published: 28 September 2021
Series ISSN: 1614-810X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-316X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 380
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Water, general, Ecology, Risk Management, Sustainable Development, Natural Hazards