书目名称 | Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security | 编辑 | Claudia Ringler,Asit K. Biswas,Sarah Cline | 视频video | | 概述 | Examines impact of global change on water and food security and identifies avenues for policy reform and investment based on the outcome of these processes.Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | Water Resources Development and Management | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has the potential to generate long-term benefits for developing countries, including enhanced technology and knowledge transfers and new fina- ing options supporting agricultural and economic development. However, risks of political and economic instability, increased inequality, and losses in agricultural income and production for countries that subsidize their agricultural and other e- nomic sectors threaten to offset potential benefits. Globalization can also have a profound impact on the water sector – in terms of allocation and use of water – and thus on food security as well. Other global change processes, particularly climate change, are also likely to have far-reaching impacts on water and food security, and societies around the world. To discuss these issues in-depth, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica, held a three-day International Con | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | 关键词 | Global warming; Water supply; climate change; environment; water; water policy; water quality and water po | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04615-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-26221-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-04615-5Series ISSN 1614-810X Series E-ISSN 2198-316X | issn_series | 1614-810X | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 |
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