In Asia and the Pacific, climate change is now a well-recognised risk to
water security but responses to this risk are either under reported, or
continue to be guided by the incremental or business as usual
approaches. Water policy still tends to remain too narrow and
fragmented, compared to the multi-sectoral and cross-scalar nature of
risks to water security. What's more, current water security debates
tend to be framed in discipline specific or academic ways, failing to
understand decision making and problem-solving contexts within which
policy actors and partitioners have to operate on a daily basis. Much of
the efforts to date has focussed on assessing and predicting the risks
in the context of increasing levels of uncertainty. There is still
limited analysis of emerging practices of risks assessment and
mitigation in different contexts in Asia and the Pacific.
Going beyond the national scales and focussing on several
socio-ecological zones, this book captures stories written by engaged
scholars on recent attempts to develop cross-sectoral and cross-scaler
solutions to assess and mitigate risks to water security across Asia and
the Pacific. Identifying lessons from successes and failures, it
highlights management and strategic lessons that water and climate
leaders of Asia and the Pacific need to consider. This book showcases
reflective and analytical thought pieces written by key actors in the
climate and water spaces. Several critical socio-ecological zones are
covered - from Pakistan in the west to pacific islands in the east. The
chapters clearly identify strategies for improvement based on the
analysis of emerging responses to climate risks to water security and
gaps in current practices. The book will include an editorial
introduction and a final synthesis chapter to ensure clear articulation
of common themes and to highlight the overall messages of the book.