Water Security for Better Lives

This publication examines the critical issues surrounding water security (water shortage, water excess, inadequate water quality, the resilience of freshwater systems), providing a rationale for a risk-based approach and the management of trade-offs between water and other (sectoral and environmenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2013
Series:OECD Studies on Water
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • Why does water security matter?
  • Achieving water security targets through market-based instruments
  • Glossary of terms
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Executive summary
  • Applying a risk-based approach to water security
  • Policy coherence toward water security
  • Basic water facts
  • Costs and distributional impacts of inaction