Johan Rockstrom

Water Resilience for Human Prosperity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The world's human population now constitutes the largest driving force of changes to the biosphere. Emerging water challenges require new ideas for governance and management of water resources in the context of rapid global change. This book presents a new approach to water resources, addressing global sustainability and focusing on socio-ecological resilience to changes. Topics covered include the risks of unexpected change, human impacts and dependence on global water, the prospects for feeding the world's population by 2050, and a pathway for the future. The book's innovative and integrated approach links green and blue freshwater with terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem functions and use. It also links changes arising from land-use alteration with the impacts of those changes on social-ecological systems and ecosystem services. This is an important, state-of-the-art resource for academic researchers and water resource professionals, and a key reference for graduate students studying water resource governance and management.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139698849
• Artikelnr.: 53398024

Autorenporträt

Johan Rockström is the Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) and a leading scientist on global water resources and sustainable development. He has more than 15 years' experience of research on agriculture, water resources and ecosystem services, and over 100 research publications with more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles and several books in the fields of global environmental change, resilience and sustainability, agricultural water management, global water resources and food production. He has served as advisor to several international organizations and governments. Professor Rockström currently serves on many international committees and boards, including leading the ICSU task team on the future vision for global change research.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface
Introduction to the book
Acknowledgements
Part I. A New Perspective: 1. The role played by water in the biosphere
Part II. Living in a Human-Dominated World: 2. Human modification of the Earth system
3. Balancing on a threshold of alternate development paths: regime shifts, traps and transformations
4. Crucial functioning of and human dependence on the global water system
Part III. Food Production Globally: In Hotspot Regions and in the Landscape: 5. Food production: a mega water challenge
6. Closing the yield gap in the savannah zone
7. Water resources and functions for agro-ecological systems at the landscape scale
Part IV. Governance and Pathways: 8. Governance for navigating the novel freshwater dynamics of the Anthropocene
9. Pathways to the future
Glossary
Index.