Skip to main content

Main menu

  • About the Journal
    • Aims & Scope
    • Editorial Board
    • Browse Archive
    • Abstracting - Indexing
    • About IWA Publishing
  • Subscribe
    • Institutional Subscriptions
    • User Licences
    • IP Registration
    • IWA Member Subscriptions
  • Open Access
  • For Authors
    • Online Submission
    • Publish with Us
    • Instructions for Authors
    • Open Access
    • How to review a paper
    • Rights & Permissions
    • Article Promotion
  • For Librarians
    • Usage Statistics
    • Subscriber Services
    • Sample Issue
    • Terms and Conditions
  • For Readers
    • Recommend to Your Library
    • Rights & Permissions
    • How to Subscribe
  • Collections
  • Help
    • FAQ
    • Contact Us
  • Other Publications
    • IWAP Online
    • Journal of Hydroinformatics
    • Journal of Water and Health
    • Journal of Water and Climate Change
    • Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination
    • Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-AQUA
    • H2Open Journal
    • Hydrology Research
    • Water Practice and Technology
    • Water Research
    • Water Policy
    • Water Quality Research Journal
    • Water Science and Technology
    • Water Science and Technology: Water Supply
    • Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
    • Water Intelligence Online
    • Ingeniería del agua
    • IWA Publishing

User menu

  • Log-in
  • Sign-up for alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
Water Policy
  • Other Publications
    • IWAP Online
    • Journal of Hydroinformatics
    • Journal of Water and Health
    • Journal of Water and Climate Change
    • Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination
    • Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology-AQUA
    • H2Open Journal
    • Hydrology Research
    • Water Practice and Technology
    • Water Research
    • Water Policy
    • Water Quality Research Journal
    • Water Science and Technology
    • Water Science and Technology: Water Supply
    • Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
    • Water Intelligence Online
    • Ingeniería del agua
    • IWA Publishing

Log-in

Sign-up for alerts   

  • My Cart
Water Policy
Browse Archive
Advanced Search
  • About the Journal
    • Aims & Scope
    • Editorial Board
    • Browse Archive
    • Abstracting - Indexing
    • About IWA Publishing
  • Subscribe
    • Institutional Subscriptions
    • User Licences
    • IP Registration
    • IWA Member Subscriptions
  • Open Access
  • For Authors
    • Online Submission
    • Publish with Us
    • Instructions for Authors
    • Open Access
    • How to review a paper
    • Rights & Permissions
    • Article Promotion
  • For Librarians
    • Usage Statistics
    • Subscriber Services
    • Sample Issue
    • Terms and Conditions
  • For Readers
    • Recommend to Your Library
    • Rights & Permissions
    • How to Subscribe
  • Collections
  • Help
    • FAQ
    • Contact Us

You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 17, Issue 2

Water and the Future of Humanity: Revisiting Water Security, by Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity; 2014, 241 pages, Springer, New York. ISBN 9783319014562 (print) 9783319014579 (online)

Bruce P. Hooper
Published April 2015, 17 (2) 389-390; DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.201
Bruce P. Hooper
Bruce Hooper & Associates, PO Box 552, Moffat Beach, Brisbane, QLD 4551 Australia. E-mail: bphooper@gmail.com
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

It is not often that one finds today such an optimistic, overarching and prescriptive commentary and way forward for global water resources management. The aim of this comprehensive book is to‘enhance present knowledge on the role of water in the world … (reflect on) water use until 2050 and the state of water resources … and (reflects on) possible creation of series barriers to development, caused by water-related constraints’ (p. ix).

The authors do this by back-casting from the present (in Chapter 8, after several topical chapters) to forecast water scenarios, thus advocating a method to the international water community to plan water resources development and management accordingly. This is not altogether new but is valuable as it seeks to understand the future by learning from the past and how the future can be crafted in such a way that avoids fundamental water planning errors. The authors outline, quite rightly, that back-casting helps to identify …

View Full Text

Log in using your username and password

Forgot your user name or password?

Purchase access

User Login Menu

  • Create a new account
  • Forgot username/password?
  • Can't get past this page?
  • Help with Cookies
  • Need to Activate?
Previous ArticleNext Article
Back to top

SELECTED ISSUE

Water Policy: 20 (2)
  Volume 17, Issue 2

  Table of Contents
  Uncorrected Proofs
  Browse Archive

Actions

Email

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Water Policy.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Water and the Future of Humanity: Revisiting Water Security, by Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity; 2014, 241 pages, Springer, New York. ISBN 9783319014562 (print) 9783319014579 (online)
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Water Policy
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Water Policy web site.
Share
Water and the Future of Humanity: Revisiting Water Security, by Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity; 2014, 241 pages, Springer, New York. ISBN 9783319014562 (print) 9783319014579 (online)
Bruce P. Hooper
Water Policy Apr 2015, 17 (2) 389-390; DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.201
del.icio.us logo Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo CiteULike logo Connotea logo Facebook logo Google logo Mendeley logo
Citation Tools
Water and the Future of Humanity: Revisiting Water Security, by Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humanity; 2014, 241 pages, Springer, New York. ISBN 9783319014562 (print) 9783319014579 (online)
Bruce P. Hooper
Water Policy Apr 2015, 17 (2) 389-390; DOI: 10.2166/wp.2014.201

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
View Full PDF
Save to my folders
Alerts

Please log in to add an alert for this article.

Print
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like

Jump to

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

Cited By...

More in this TOC Section

  • Drought in Brazil: Proactive Management and Policy. De Nys, E., Engle, N. L., & Magalhaes, A. R. (eds). 2016, 230pp. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. ISBN: 9781498765664
  • History of Water Supply and Governance in Kenya (1895–2005): Lessons and Futures. Ezekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga. 2016, p. 618. Tampere University Press, Finland. ISBN: 978-952-03-0060-9
  • Water and Cities in Latin America: Challenges for Sustainable Development by Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Jonathan Kaledin, Marianne Kjellén & Abel Mejía-Betancourt (Eds). 2015, hardback, 282 pages. Routledge, Abingdon, UK ISBN: 978-0-415-73097-6.
Show more Book Review

Similar Articles

  • Current Issue
  • Uncorrected Proofs
  • Archives
  • Feedback
  • Online Submission
  • Subscribe
  • Contents Alerts
  • About the Journal
  • Open Access
  • Rights & Permissions

IWA Publishing
Alliance House
12, Caxton Street
London SW1H 0QS, UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7654 5500
Fax: +44 (0)20 7654 5555
Remove (0) if calling from outside the UK
iwapublishing.com
Company registered in England no. 3690822

© IWA Publishing | Cookies | Terms & Conditions | Privacy | Site Map | ISSN Print: 1366-7017 | ISSN Online: 1996-9759