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Water security for better lives.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- OECD studies on water.
- OECD studies on water, 2224-5073
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Management.
- Water-supply.
- Water-supply--Economic aspects.
- Water-supply--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD Publishing, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 environmental) policies. The report sets out a three-step process to "know", "target" and "manage" water risks: (1) appraising the risks, (2) judging the tolerability and acceptability of risks and weighing risk-risk trade-offs, and (3) calibrating appropriate responses. The publication provides policy analysis and guidance on the use of market-based instruments and the complex links between water security and other policy objectives, such as food security, energy security, climate mitigation and biodiversity protection.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Preface
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Chapter 1. Why does water security matter?
- The water outlook
- Applying a risk-based approach to water security: A conceptual framework
- Implementing the risk-based approach
- What are the costs and impacts of inaction?
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 2. Applying a risk-based approach to water security
- Applying the "know", "target" and "manage" framework
- Country cases
- Chapter 3. Achieving water security targets through market-based instruments
- Economic principles and instruments
- Water supply
- Water demand
- Water quantity
- Water quality
- Integrated water resource management
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4. Policy coherence toward water security
- Spillover effects of sectoral and environmental policies on water security
- Effects of non-water environmental markets on water security:Some empirical evidence
- A framework for managing trade-offs between policies
- Annexes
- Annex A. Glossary of terms
- Annex B. Basic water facts
- Annex C. Costs and distributional impacts of inaction.
- Notes:
- "This work is published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD"--T.p. verso.
- OECD-code: 97 2013 11 1 P.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781780405773
- 1780405774
- OCLC:
- 919516774
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