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Water
Security, Governance and Economics
Editors: R Quentin Grafton, Jamie Pittock, Maree Tait & Chris White
ISBN: 9780734611413 / 978-0-7346-1141-3
Price: A$69.95 NZ$83.95 US$59.95
Binding: Softcover
Trim: 200 x 250 mm 200 pp (approx.)
Published Date: August 2012
What is this book about:
- Water scarcity, the economics of water resources and the governance of water (urban and rural) from an international perspective
- Select Australian case studies illustrate both innovative measures and the gaps between theory and practice in the complex venture that is water management
- Better management of water is crucial for efforts to adapt to climate change, maintain food security and achieve environmental sustainability
Water: Security, Governance and Economics highlights intractable, unresolved issues and discusses ways in which information and different conceptual approaches can be used to discuss them more effectively.
Readers will gain an overview of the wide range of controversies that together make up the international debate about water reform. They will also gain a good understanding of potential solutions.
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Chapter 1 - Water: security, governance and economics—an overview
PART I - Water Security
Chapter 2 - Global water physical status
Chapter 3 - Global water management challenges
Chapter 4 - River basin closure
Chapter 5 - Climate change and water resources
Chapter 6 - Water management responses to climate change
Chapter 7 - Climate change and freshwater ecosystems: MDB case study
Chapter 8 - Water and poverty
Chapter 9 - Summary: Water security
PART II - Water Governance
Chapter 10 - Water law
Chapter 11 - Regulatory frameworks
Chapter 12 - Water governance across borders
Chapter 13 - Sharing benefits across borders
Chapter 14 - UN Watercourses Convention and other treaties
Chapter 15 - Integrated water resources management
Chapter 16 - Multi-stakeholder catchment management
Chapter 17 - Planetary boundaries
Chapter 18 - Climate, energy and water nexus
Chapter 19 - Urban metabolism
Chapter 20 - Climate, food and water nexus
Chapter 21 - Gender and water
Chapter 22 - Indigenous rights to water
Chapter 23 - Murray-Darling Basin case study
Chapter 24 - Summary: Water governance
PART III - Water Economics
Chapter 25 - Water markets
Chapter 26 - Australian critique
Chapter 27 - Murray-Darling Basin case study
Chapter 28 - Water economics overview
Chapter 29 - Conclusion
R Quentin Grafton is Director of the newly-formed Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics, an economic research unit within the Australian Government Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism BREE. He is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, and is also Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In April 2010, Quentin was appointed Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance.
He currently serves as Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, the International Journal of Environmental Economics, Environment and Development Economics, and Economics Research International. He is also the Chief Editor of the blog The Global Water Forum.
Quentin has published more than 80 scholarly articles in some of the world's leading journals in economics and the life sciences (e.g. Science), more than 25 chapters in books, four edited books, and seven authored books.
He has served in numerous advisory roles and expert panels in Australia and overseas, including as Chair of the Social and Economics Reference Panel of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission (2008-2009) and as a member of the National Council on Education for Sustainability (2008-2010).
Contributors include:
M Tait . C White . CJ Vorosmarty . J Alcamo . M Falkenmark . NW Arnell . MA Palmer . J Pittock . C Sullivan . E Louka . S Burchi . P Wouters . CW Sadoff . A Rieu-Clarke . T Jonch-Clausen . JF Warner . JW Rockstrom . A Voinov . SJ Kenway . C de Fraiture . K Lahiri-Dutt . M Durette . D Connell . MD Young