Water Security (SAGE Library of International Security) - Hardcover

 
9781446293928: Water Security (SAGE Library of International Security)

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During the past two decades, environmental security and more specifically the security of water as a natural resource has come to the forefront of research and discussion. Many regions have experienced an increased water scarcity due to climatic variability and climate change, and the uncertain impacts of climate change to the supply has brought the issue to the centre of political debates. Indeed it has been raised by both the EU and the US national governments as a major issue of concern globally and has also been highlighted by the Security Council of the UN. The four volumes of this collection seek to broadly outline the debate as it has developed, both from a policy as well as an academic perspective, with the aim to bring conceptual clarity as well as provide an account of how the water security discourse has emerged and developed. 


Volume One: Water Security - Origin and foundations

Volume Two: Water Security - International conflict and cooperation

Volume Three. Water Security and Development - An intimate relation

Volume Four: The Age of Water Security - Current dilemmas and future challenges


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Anders Jägerskog Ph.D. is Counselor for Regional Water issues in the MENA region at the Embassy of Sweden in Amman, Jordan. He is on leave of absence from his post as Director, Knowledge Services, at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) where he headed the Transboundary Water Management Unit and was work area leader for applied research. His work focuses on international water issues and in particular transboundary waters and water governance. He is also Associate Professor at Peace and Development Research, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg where his work focuses on global water issues. He is a member of the United Nations rooster of mediation expert for the Department of Political Affairs, Mediation Support Unit, UN. NY. He has published over 70 scientific articles, book chapters, debate articles and reports, and is frequently consulted in national and international media on issue relating to global water issues; water, conflict and security issues in the Africa and MENA region.

 

Ashok Swain is a Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research and at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University Sweden. He received his PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1991, and since then he has been teaching at the Uppsala University. He has been a Mac Arthur Fellow at the University of Chicago, visiting professor/fellows at UN Research Institute for Social Development, University Witwatersrand, University of Science, Malaysia, University of British Columbia, University of Maryland and Stanford University. He has written extensively on emerging security challenges, international water sharing and migration issues and democratic development.

 

Joakim Öjendal is a Professor of Peace and Development Research at School of Global studies, at Göteborg University, Sweden, and a visiting professor at Linne’ University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Peace and Development Research at Göteborg University in 2000 (Öjendal, ‘Sharing the Good - Modes of Managing Water Resources’). He was a long-standing member of the Advisory Board of the ‘Swedish Environmental Secretariat in Asia’ (SENSA) and is a scientific mentor at the ‘Cambodian Development Resource Institute’. He led the multinational second-track diplomacy project ‘Lancang-Mekong Informal Dialogue’ for five years. He has published widely on water and security issues, including Öjendal, 2010 (co-ed), ‘Transboundary Water Management: From Principles to Practice’, Earthscan; Öjendal (co-ed.), 2012, ‘Politics and Development in a Transboundary Watershed’, Springer; Öjendal (co-author), ‘Environmental Governance in the Mekong’ (SEI); Öjendal (co-authored), 2006, ‘Trans-boundary Water Co-operation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and Broader Benefit Sharing’, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

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