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Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security

Schmidt, Jeremy J.

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Kerstin Martens
Editor

Dennis Niemann
Editor

Alexandra Kaash
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Abstract

Water is an important area of global social policy. This chapter provides historical context for understanding how international organizations developed a distinctly global orientation to water policy alongside the emergence of global hydrology in the mid-twentieth century. Subsequently, international organizations linked concerns over water scarcity to integrated approaches to resource management. As human impacts on the global water system accelerated into the twenty-first century, international organizations influenced the shift from concerns over resource scarcity to those over environmental security. Water security is now central to how international organizations frame and respond to risks affecting interconnected environmental and economic systems.

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Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Water as Global Social Policy—International Organizations, Resource Scarcity, and Environmental Security. In K. Martens, D. Niemann, & A. Kaash (Eds.), International Organizations in Global Social Governance (275-296). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_12

Online Publication Date Apr 8, 2021
Publication Date Apr 8, 2021
Deposit Date Apr 8, 2021
Publicly Available Date Apr 8, 2021
Pages 275-296
Series Title Global Dynamics of Social Policy
Book Title International Organizations in Global Social Governance
Chapter Number 12
ISBN 978-3-030-65438-2
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65439-9_12

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