Lessons, Challenges, and Future Perspectives of Water Insecurity
Water Insecurity: A Social Dilemma
ISBN: 978-1-78190-882-2, eISBN: 978-1-78190-883-9
Publication date: 11 August 2014
Abstract
Water insecurity is a big threat and a defining global challenge that causes social dilemma in the society. Analyzing all the previous chapters in this volume, this final chapter will discuss water use and its consequence of social dilemma, the key lessons and observations that trigger water insecurity, major challenges and success factors toward water insecurity, and how water insecurity can be minimized through the involvement of community people, and improvement of social stability in the form of common understanding. This chapter also emphasizes the linkage between local and national levels by the development of Integrated Water Resource Management both in quantity and quality aspects.
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Acknowledgment
The authors acknowledge the support from the GCOE-ARS (Global Center of Excellence: Sustainability/Survivability Science for a Resilient Society Adaptable to Extreme Weather Conditions) Program of Kyoto University and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to conduct this research.
Citation
Abedin, M.A., Habiba, U. and Shaw, R. (2014), "Lessons, Challenges, and Future Perspectives of Water Insecurity", Water Insecurity: A Social Dilemma (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 287-303. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2013)0000013018
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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