The United Nations World Water Development Report 2014 : water and energy vol. 1 and facing the challenges vol.2

Water and energy are closely interconnected and highly interdependent. Choices made and actions taken in one domain can greatly affect the other, positively or negatively. Trade-offs need to be managed to limit negative impacts and foster opportunities for synergy. Water and energy have crucial impacts on poverty alleviation both directly, as a number of the Millennium Development Goals depend on major improvements in access to water, sanitation, power and energy sources, and indirectly, as water and energy can be binding constraints on economic growth – the ultimate hope for widespread poverty reduction. The Report provides a comprehensive overview of major and emerging trends from around the world, with examples of how some of the trend-related challenges have been addressed, their implications for policy-makers, and further actions that can be taken by stakeholders and the international community. What's new :The WWDR 2014 on Water and Energy is the first that follows the new “formula” agreed by UN-Water in 2012. Indeed, the WWDR is now an annual and thematic report with a focus on different strategic water issues each year. It is shorter - in the order of 100 pages - with a standardized structure and data and case studies annexes related to the theme.Starting in 2014, the theme of the World Water Development Report and that of World Water Day will be harmonized in order to provide a deeper focus and in-depth analysis of a specific water-related issue every year.The first volume provides a comprehensive overview of major and emerging trends from around the world, with examples of how some of the trend-related challenges have been addressed, their implications for policy-makers, and further actions that can be taken by stakeholders and the international community.
Part 1 Status, trends and challenges -- Chapter 1 The water-energy nexus -- Richard Connor and James Winpenny -- Chapter 2 Water: Demands, energy requirements and availability -- Richard Connor and Michael Webber -- Chapter 3 Energy’s thirst for water -- Richard Connor, Ingvar B. Fridleifsson, Michael Webber and James WInpenny -- Chapter 4 Data challenges and opportunities -- Richard Connor, Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Engin Koncagül -- Part 2 Thematic focus -- Chapter 5 -- Infrastructure -- World Bank, Diego J. Rodriguez and Anna Delgado -- Chapter 6 Food and Agriculture -- FAO Chapter 7 Cities -- UN-Habitat, Bhushan Tuladhar, Vincent Kitio, Robert Goodwin and Andre Dzikus -- Chapter 8 Industry -- UNIDOWater Management Unit (UNIDO) and John Payne (SNC Lavalin) -- Chapter 9 -- Ecosystems -- UNEPThomas Chiramba, Elizabeth Khaka, Eric Hoa, Maite Aldaya, Djaheezah Subratty, Ryuichi Fukuhara (UNEP); Maija Berthule, Gareth James Lloyd (UNEP DHI); Rebecca Welling, (IUCN); and Eline Boelee (Water Health) -- Part 3 Regional aspects -- Chapter 10 -- Europe and North America -- UNECE, Annukka Lipponen -- Chapter 11 -- Asia and the Pacific -- UNESCAP -- Chapter 12 Arab region -- UNESCWA, Carol Chouchani Cherfane and Sung Eun Kim -- Chapter 13 Lattin America and the Caribbean -- UNECLAC -- Chapter 14 Africa -- UNECA, Stephen M. Donkor; Contributors: Seleshi B. Awulachew and Michael Menker -- Part 4 Responses : fostering synergies and managing trade-offs -- Chapter 15 -- Creating an enabling environment for change -- Richard Connor, Lyndsay Mountford, Frederik Pischke and James Winpenny -- Chapter 16 Responses in practice -- Richard Connor, Lyndsay Mountford and James Winpenny -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations and acronyms and units -- Boxes, figures and tables.

204 p. : ill., charts, graphs, maps, tables.

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