Reed Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-68546-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 438 Seiten

The policies and approaches used by the U.S. government to address global water challenges over the past 30 years have been driven by domestic political dynamics, not the needs of water-stressed partner countries. Now eclipsed by new demographic pressures, expanding economies and growing impacts of climate change, U.S. foreign policy must shift significantly from its focus on water provision to sustainable watershed management accompanied by institutional and policy reforms in scores of water-stressed countries.

Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy provides an analytical framework to help policy makers interpret the potential impacts and significance of drought and weather extremes as they intersect with other development challenges and difficult developmental trade-offs. Through this analytical lens, the aim is to propose a new U.S. governmental approach that can anticipate and help forestall social destabilization and economic downturn potentially leading to accelerated outward migration and disruption of global supply chains with accompanying challenges to U.S. security interests.

Organized into three complementary themes: Water and Conflict; Financing Water Infrastructure, and; Climate Change and Hydrologic Security, and presenting research and evidence from 19 geographies, this book allows its readers to identify how water-related social and economic disruptions escalate from development challenges in partner countries to security risks and threats to U.S. security interests.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reed, David

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: General James L. Jones

Part 1: In Search of a Mission

Chapter One: In Search of a Mission

David Reed

Part 2: Conflict and Climate Change

Framing Note: The Social Dimensions of Water

David Reed

Chapter Two: Development and Diplomacy: Water, the SDGs, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Erika Weinthal with Farah F. Hegazi and Lesha Witmer

Chapter Three: Climate Variability, Water, and Security in El Salvador
Herman Rosa

Chapter Four: Panama: Water Security and Social Conflict in the Climate Change Era
Dr. Ariel Cuschnir

Chapter Five: Mexico’s Pursuit of Water Security

Dr. Román Gómez González Cosío

Chapter Six: Who Stole the Water: Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy in Guatemala

Eduardo Stein with Lilian Marquez

Chapter Seven: Water Stress, Instability, and Violent Extremism in Nigeria

Marcus King

Chapter Eight: Water Resources, Climate Change, and the Destabilization of Modern Mesopotamia

Dr. Peter Gleick

Chapter Nine: Water-Energy Nexus in the Himalayas

Keith Schneider

Chapter Ten: Water Scarcity and Regional Security in India

Cecilia Tortajada, Udisha Saklani and Asit K. Biswas

Chapter Eleven: The Perils of Denial: Challenges for a Water-Secure Pakistan

Ali Sayed, Chelsea N. Spangler and Faizan Usman

Chapter Twelve: Dammed If You Do and Damned If You Don't: Afghanistan's Water Woes

Glen Hearns

Chapter Thirteen: Iran's Impending Water Crisis

David Michel

Chapter Fourteen: Winter is Coming: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Water-Energy-Agriculture Conundrum in Central Asia

Richard Paisley

Chapter Fifteen: A Perfect Storm in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Climate Change Impacts on Food, Water, and Energy

Arjun Thapan

Chapter Sixteen: Building Resilience for Peace: Water, Security, and Strategic Interests in Mindanao, Philippines

Roger-Mark De Souza

Part 3: Financing Water Infrastructure

Framing Note: Persistent Challenges

Patrick Coady

Chapter Seventeen: Helping Weak Water Utilities Climb the Financial Ladder

Aldo Baietti

Chapter Eighteen: Financing Water and Sewer Infrastructure in the Developing World

William Streeter

Chapter Nineteen: A New Chapter in Developing Water Infrastructure

Marc Jeuland

Part 4: New Challenges, New Directions

Chapter Twenty: Paths of Influence

David Reed

Chapter Twenty-One: Recommendations for Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy

David Reed

Über Autor(innen)

David Reed is Senior Vice President, Policy for WWF-US. He holds a Ph.D. and graduate degrees from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked for twenty five years in social and economic development programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia at both the grassroots and managerial levels. Areas of expertise include Environmental impacts of macroeconomic reforms, Poverty-environment nexus, International architecture for climate finance, and Environmental dimensions of U.S. foreign Policy. He has authored numerous books and publications, including: Structural Adjustment, the Environment, and Sustainable Development (1996); Economic Change, Natural Resource Wealth and Governance: The Political Economy of Change in Southern Africa (2001); Poverty is Not a Number: The Environment is Not a Butterfly (1998); Escaping Poverty’s Grasp (2006).