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Confronting Water Insecurity - by Roberto L Lenton (Paperback)

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  • Confronting Water Insecurity provides an account of the role of multilateral cooperation and global institutions in transforming science, policy, and practice for water security from 1945 to 2024, a period characterized by significant disparities in water security between low- and high-income countries, ever-rising water use, and growing concerns about the harms of climate change and other disturbances on the global water cycle.Roberto L. Lenton tells how the scientific and policy response to these new challenges has become more global and integrated, and describes the role of global institutions in addressing fundamental global water issues with long-term implications for sustainability.
  • About the Author: Roberto L. Lenton is professor emeritus of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  • 260 Pages
  • Technology, Environmental

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Confronting Water Insecurity is an engaging account of the most significant global events and institutions that have shaped thinking and action on water security from 1945 to 2024, linking local, regional, and global concerns as well as past, present, and future.



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Confronting Water Insecurity provides an account of the role of multilateral cooperation and global institutions in transforming science, policy, and practice for water security from 1945 to 2024, a period characterized by significant disparities in water security between low- and high-income countries, ever-rising water use, and growing concerns about the harms of climate change and other disturbances on the global water cycle.

Roberto L. Lenton tells how the scientific and policy response to these new challenges has become more global and integrated, and describes the role of global institutions in addressing fundamental global water issues with long-term implications for sustainability. Following the quest for water security as it transformed from an issue driven primarily by local or national interests into one of global concern, Lenton offers lessons from the successes and failures from 1945 to 2024 that will help us imagine the new approaches we need to ensure that the world can meet the next generation of water challenges. Beyond the world of water, he provides insights into how we can better address the global challenges that arise from humanity's complex relationships with the natural world.



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"By understanding our past, provoking the status quo, and crafting the future, Roberto Lenton takes us on an inspiring journey toward a world where water is prioritized as an organizing principle, and where the water cycle is valued and governed as a global common good."--Henk Ovink, executive director and founding commissioner for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water



"In this important, timely, and readable book that holds many lessons for environmental action, Roberto Lenton lucidly narrates how global institutions helped water management science and policy become more global, multidisciplinary, and multistakeholder, calling for holistic approaches and an appropriate global institutional architecture."--Julia Marton-Lefèvre, former director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature




About the Author



Roberto L. Lenton is professor emeritus of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Before coming to the University of Nebraska in 2012 as founding executive director of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, he held leadership roles in major global institutions including the Ford Foundation, the International Water Management Institute, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank. Lenton is coeditor of Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice: Better Water Management for Development.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 260
Genre: Technology
Sub-Genre: Environmental
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Theme: Water Supply
Format: Paperback
Author: Roberto L Lenton
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2026
TCIN: 1007433629
UPC: 9781496246837
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-7503
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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