This publication examines the critical issues surrounding water security (water shortage, water excess, inadequate water quality, the resilience of freshwater systems), providing a rationale for a risk-based approach and the management of trade-offs between water and other (sectoral and environmental) policies.
The report sets out a three-step process to "know", "target" and "manage" water risks: (1) appraising the risks, (2) judging the tolerability and acceptability of risks and weighing risk-risk trade-offs, and (3) calibrating appropriate responses.
The publication provides policy analysis and guidance on the use of market-based instruments and the complex links between water security and other policy objectives, such as food security, energy security, climate mitigation and biodiversity protection. [authors abstract]
| Title | Water security for better lives |
| Publication Type | Progress Report |
| Year of Publication | 2013 |
| Corporate Authors | OECD |
| Pagination | 171 p., |
| Date Published | 09/2013 |
| Publisher | OECD |
| Place Published | 2013 |
| ISBN Number | 9789264202405 (PDF) ; 9789264202399 (print) |
| Keywords | inadequate water quality, the resilience of freshwater systems, water excess, water security, water shortage |
| Abstract | This publication examines the critical issues surrounding water security (water shortage, water excess, inadequate water quality, the resilience of freshwater systems), providing a rationale for a risk-based approach and the management of trade-offs between water and other (sectoral and environmental) policies. |
| DOI | 10.1787/9789264202405-en |
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