Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security (eBook)

Claudia Ringler, Asit K. Biswas, Sarah Cline (Herausgeber)

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2010 | 2010
XV, 265 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-04615-5 (ISBN)

Infos

In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has the potential to generate long-term benefits for developing countries, including enhanced technology and knowledge transfers and new fina- ing options supporting agricultural and economic development. However, risks of political and economic instability, increased inequality, and losses in agricultural income and production for countries that subsidize their agricultural and other e- nomic sectors threaten to offset potential benefits. Globalization can also have a profound impact on the water sector - in terms of allocation and use of water - and thus on food security as well. Other global change processes, particularly climate change, are also likely to have far-reaching impacts on water and food security, and societies around the world. To discuss these issues in-depth, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica, held a three-day International Conference on 'Globalization and Trade: Implications for Water and Food Security,' at CATIE's Turrialba, Costa Rica, headquarters under the auspices of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in 2005. The workshop set out to identify the major risks and emerging issues facing developing countries related to global economic and environmental change impacts on water and food security.

Inhalt

Preface 5
Contents 7
Part I Water for Food Security Under Growing Scarcity 16
Water and Food Security Under Global Change 17
Global Water and Food Security: Megatrends and Emerging Issues 30
Implications of Global Climatic Change on Water and Food Security 61
Biofuels, Food Security, and the Environment: A 2020/ 2050 Perspective 76
Part II Trade for Water and Food Security-Help or Harm for the Poor? 106
Implications of Globalization and Trade for Water Quality in Transboundary Rivers 107
Failure of the Virtual Water Argument: Possible Explanations Using the Case Study of Mexico and NAFTA 122
Globalization and Fisheries: Welfare Implications of Export Trade in Asia 136
Part III How to Finance Water for the Poor in a Globalized World 150
Global Trends in Financing Water 151
Private-Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation Services: The Answer to Public 176
Sector Failures? 176
Mobilizing Investment for Municipal Water Supply Services 201
Water, Water Services and International Investment Agreements 215
Part IV Conclusions 241
Global Change: Options for Reform 242
Description of the IMPACT Model 254
A Model of Linkage 256
Description of the H-O Theorem Applied to Water 259
Tables 262
Subject Index 264

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Water Resources Development and Management
• Reihe/Serie: Water Resources Development and Management
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 265 p. 30 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: climate change • Environment • global warming • Water • Water Policy • Water Quality and Water Pollution • water supply
• ISBN-10: 3-642-04615-0 / 3642046150
• ISBN-13: 978-3-642-04615-5 / 9783642046155