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Routledge Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins: Defining the Limits (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance)

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Product Description Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book present a different picture. While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and sustainable development of resources. The first part of this book provides detailed insight into conditions of water flows within nine river basins. In the second part, authors summarize and re-analyze the outcome of the nine basins, providing a coherent global picture of water, water productivity and development. They assess the impacts of variations of these attributes on development and approaches for poverty alleviation, and explore the institutional factors that support or obstruct change. How people will manage river systems while protecting vital ecosystem functions will make the difference between catastrophe and survival. As Prof Asit Biswas points out, "... the world is facing a water crisis not because of physical scarcity of water but because of poor management practices in nearly all countries of the world." The book is based on the four years (2006-2010) of extensive research into the state of ten of the world’s major river basins carried out under the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food’s Basin Focal Project. This book was published as a special issue of Water International. About the Author Myles Fisher is an Emeritus Scientist at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical CIAT in Cali, Colombia. He worked in the agronomy and physiology of tropical pastures in the Northern Territory of Australia and southeast Queensland with CSIRO and in Colombia at CIAT. He was Lead Scientist for the CGIAR InterCenter Working Group on Climate Change. He consults with CIAT on simulation modeling, soil carbon dynamics and climate change, and to the UNDP on the preservation of Tajikistan’s (Central Asia) agrobiodiversity in the face of climate change. Simon Cook coordinated the Basin Focal Projects of the Challenge Program for Water and Food on which this work is based. Prior to that, he was theme leader within the Challenge Program, and project leader with CIAT. Currently he leads the working group on Global Drivers for the Challenge Program. Based in Cali, Colombia, he is associated with the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia, Perth.

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Brand: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415592070
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
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Release Date: 02 February 2012
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