Ken Reid forwarded the following message from Tim Smith, Coordinator of the Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable.
These proceedings contains 20 papers from various parts of the world. Some selected subjects include:
Impact of global change on large river basins;
River flow projections in a changing climate;
Impacts of national and international actors on river basin management;
Effect of changing anthropogenic and climate conditions on BOD loading and water quality; and
Water resources planning and management regions: new insights for defining regions.
This report will also be placed on the SWRR Archive Web Site on the '2010 Reports and Publications' page.
Here is a summary of the GWSP conference.
I also stumbled across the WWW site of the Center for a New American Security (
CNAS). It has a number of
reports addressing security issues and natural resources (including
water), climate change, energy, etc. It's an area the Center calls
'natural security':
In the 21st century, the security of nations will increasingly depend on the security of
natural resources, or “natural security.” This concept paper outlines a new program of study at the Center for a New American Security to look at emerging natural resources challenges in six key areas of consumption and consequences – energy, minerals, water, land, climate change, and biodiversity – as well as the ways in which these challenges are linked together. Any solution to the country’s energy insecurity is likely to involve water, non-fuel minerals, and land-use issues; climate change and biodiversity cut across all concerns, with broad effects on resource vulnerability. Without an integrated, national-level approach that links together natural security challenges, the United States runs the risk of trading one dependency for another and exacerbating the consequences.
So: natural resources + national security = natural security. Sounds good. Or maybe not. More light reading.
"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries." -- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
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