ECONIS Select – Die Blaue Revolution: Wirtschaftlicher Umgang mit den globalen Wasserressourcen

07/2009

Water shortages are cropping up around the world – from Australia to South Africa, from Brazil to the Sahel. Many of the world’s mightiest rivers run dry before reaching the sea. Perhaps half the world’s wetlands have been damaged or destroyed in the past century as salt water has displaced fresh water. These facts are striking, in view of the fact that the world’s population withdraws less than a tenth of the water that falls to the ground and that – unlike our fossil fuels – the world’s water supplies cannot be used up.

Although some regions suffer chronic water shortages whereas others are repeatedly flooded, water shortages are not merely a local problem to be solved locally. There are powerful world-wide forces at work that are making water a global problem. The first is climate change, which accelerates the rate at which water evaporates and falls and thereby increases our water management problems. The second is demography: in the last half century, the world’s population has grown by 2.5 billion, and it is expected to grow by another three billion in the next half century.

And the third is diet: as people around the world become wealthier, vegetarian diets are replaced by meat, requiring much more water input. To meet these challenges, we require more than local initiatives; what is called for is a “blue revolution.”

How can we reduce the flagrant waste of our water supplies? How can we discourage dry regions and countries from highly water-intensive agricultural products? How can we allocate water efficiently among our various uses – food, industry, services, personal use? How can we ensure that access to water is not inequitably distributed, amplifying the misery of the poor? What is the role of water pricing and sale of water rights in supporting a blue revolution? What role can business play in this revolution? How can the political obstacles to a reform of water management be overcome?

Aus unserem Online-Katalog ECONIS recherchierte Literatur:

• Titel: Water in a changing world / World Water Assessment Programme
  Körperschaft: Unesco / World Water Assessment Programme
  Erschienen: Paris [u.a.] : UNESCO Publ. [u.a.], 2009
  Schriftenreihe: The United Nations world water development report ; 3
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: C 258451
• Titel: Facing the challenges : case studies volume / World Water Assessment Programme
  Körperschaft: Unesco / World Water Assessment Programme
  Erschienen: Paris [u.a.] : UNESCO Publ. [u.a.], 2009
  Schriftenreihe: The United Nations world water development report ; 3
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: C 258448
• Aufsatz: Global trade: balancing existing and future regional water resource deficits / Tony Allan
  In: Facing global environmental change . - Berlin [u. a.] : Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-68487-9. - 2009, S. 575-587
  Schlagwörter: Wasserversorgung / Wassermangel / Wasserpolitik / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Welt /
• Titel: Economics of water resources / ed. by R. Quentin Grafton Teil: Vol. 1
  Erschienen: Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, c 2009
  Schriftenreihe: The international library of critical writings in economics ; 234 An Elgar reference collection
  Schlagwörter: Natürliche Ressourcen / Wasserwirtschaft / Wasserversorgung / Wasserpolitik / Umweltschutz / Gewässerbelastung / Welt
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: C 258701
• Titel: Economics of water resources / ed. by R. Quentin Grafton Teil: Vol. 2
  Erschienen: Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, c 2009
  Schriftenreihe: The international library of critical writings in economics ; 234 An Elgar reference collection
  Schlagwörter: Natürliche Ressourcen / Wasserwirtschaft / Wasserversorgung / Wassermangel / Wasserpreis / Wasserpolitik / Umweltschutz / Welt
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: C 258702
• Aufsatz: Water management and water scarcity perspectives in the Mediterranean / Atef Hamdy
  In: New medit . - Bari: Dedalo, ISSN 1594-5685, ZDB-ID 20822467. - Bd. 7.2008, 1, S. 13-17
  Schlagwörter: Wassermangel / Wasserpolitik / Mittelmeerraum
• Aufsatz: Water reallocation: drivers, challenges, threats, and solutions for the poor / Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Claudia Ringler
  In: Journal of human development . - Abingdon : Routledge, ISSN 1464-9888, ZDB-ID 20614810. - Bd. 9.2008, 1, S. 47-64
  Schlagwörter: Wasserversorgung / Wassermangel / Allokation / USA (Weststaaten) / Asien
• Titel: Water scarcity and the impact of improved irrigation management : a CGE analysis / by Alvaro Calzadilla, Katrin Rehdanz and Richard S.J. Tol
  Erschienen: Kiel : Kiel Inst. for the World Economy, July 2008
  Schriftenreihe: Kiel working paper ; 1436
  Schlagwörter: Bewässerung / Wassermangel / Wasserpolitik / Wirtschaftliche Effizienz / Bewässerungslandwirtschaft / Allgemeines Gleichgewicht / Theorie / Welt
  Links:
  http://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.d...ent-a-cge-analysis/KWP%201436.pdf
  Download aus dem Internet, Stand: 24.07.2008
• Titel: Economics of irrigation water management : a literature survey with focus on partial and general equilibrium models / Hasan Dudu; Sinqobile Chumi
  Erschienen: Washington, DC : World Bank, Development Research Group, Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Team, Mar. 2008
  Schriftenreihe: Policy research working paper ; 4556
  Schlagwörter: Wassermangel / Wasserpolitik / Bewässerung
  Link: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/exte...13093333/Rendered/PDF/wps4556.pdf
• Titel: The relationship between rainfall and human density and its implications for future water stress in Sub-Saharan Africa / David Le Blanc and Romain Perez
  Erschienen: New York, NY : United Nations, Dep. of Economic and Social Affairs, Oct. 2007
  Schriftenreihe: DESA working paper ; 57 Economic and social affairs
  Schlagwörter: Wetter / Klimaveränderung / Bevölkerungsdichte / Wassermangel / Afrika südlich der Sahara
  Link: http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2007/wp57_2007.pdf
  Signatur: W 1637 (57)
• Aufsatz: Potential impacts of water scarcity on the world economy / Sonja Peterson & Gernot Klepper
  In: Global change - enough water for all? . - Hamburg : "Wiss. Auswertungen" [u.a.], ISBN 3-9809668-2-8. - 2007, S. 263-267
  Schlagwörter: Wassermangel / Makroökonomischer Einfluss / Weltwirtschaft
  Link: Autorenversion
• Titel: Virtual water trade : a realistic concept for resolving the water crisis? / Lena Horlemann; Susanne Neubert
  Erschienen: Bonn : Dt. Inst. für Entwicklungspolitik, 2007
  Schriftenreihe: Studies / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik ; 25
  Schlagwörter: Wasserpolitik / Agraraußenhandel / Wasserversorgung / Wassermangel / Welt
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: A 249820
• Titel: Making the most of scarcity : accountability for better water management results in the Middle East and North Africa / The World Bank. [Prep. by a team led by Julia Bucknall]
  Körperschaft: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  Erschienen: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2007
  Schriftenreihe: MENA development report
  Schlagwörter: Wassermangel / Wasserversorgung / MENA-Staaten
  Links:
  Inhaltsverzeichnis
  http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/17465
  Signatur: C 251400
• Titel: Scarcity, entitlements and the economics of water in developing countries / P. B. Anand
  Erschienen: Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, 2007
  Schriftenreihe: New horizons in environmental economics series
  Schlagwörter: Wasserversorgung / Wassermangel / Wasserpolitik / Entwicklungsländer
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: B 355433
• Aufsatz: Integration in the management of international waters : economic perspectives on a global policy discourse / Ines Dombrowsky
  In: Global governance . - Boulder, Colo. : Rienner, ISSN 1075-2846, ZDB-ID 1231139x. - Bd. 14.2008, 4, S. 455-477
  Schlagwörter: Wasserpolitik / Wasserversorgung / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Integration / Coase-Theorem / Ressourcenökonomik / Welt
• Titel: Conceptualizing cooperation on Africas transboundary groundwater resources / Waltina Scheumann ... (eds.)
  Erschienen: Bonn : Dt. Inst. für Entwicklungspolitik, 2008
  Schriftenreihe: Studies / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik ; 32
  Schlagwörter: Grundwasser / Wasserpolitik / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Entwicklungskooperation / Deutsch / Afrika
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: A 252667
• Titel: Water : a source of conflict or cooperation? / ed. Velma I. Grover
  Erschienen: Enfield, NH [u.a.] : Science Publ., 2007
  Schlagwörter: Wasserversorgung / Politischer Konflikt / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Wettbewerb / Wasserwirtschaft / Wasserpolitik / Welt
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: B 357110
• Titel: Water resources in the Middle East : Israel-Palestinian water issues - from conflict to cooperation / Hillel Shuval; Hassan Dweik (Ed.)
  Erschienen: Berlin [u.a.] : Springer, 2007
  Schriftenreihe: Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace ; Vol. 2
  Schlagwörter: Wasser / Wasserpolitik / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Mittlerer Osten / Israel / Palästina
  Link: http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/do...5490&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
  Signatur: C 252903
• Titel: Conflict, cooperation and institutions in international water management : an economic analysis / Ines Dombrowsky
  Erschienen: Cheltenham [u.a.] : Elgar, c 2007
  Schriftenreihe: Advances in ecological economics Hochschulschrift: Zugl.: Halle, Univ., Jur. u. Wiwi Fak., Diss., 2006
  Schlagwörter: Wasserpolitik / Wasserversorgung / Internationale Zusammenarbeit / Politischer Konflikt / Institutionalismus / Theorie / Welt
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: B 351946
• Titel: Governing water : contentious transnational politics and global institution building / Ken Conca
  Erschienen: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press, 2006
  Schriftenreihe: Global environmental accord
  Schlagwörter: Wasserversorgung / |stw| Wasserpolitik / |stw| Internationale Umweltpolitik / |stw| Internationale Politik / |stw| Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen / |stw| Fluss / |stw| Welt
  Link: Inhaltsverzeichnis
  Signatur: B 344562