00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-1686042739785013572 Buklod 20241203161831.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 241119s2020 nyu u eng 9780190948016 (eBook) 9780190948023 (eBook) 9780190948009 (eBook) 9780190948030 (eBook) 21242567 DLC DLAW rda eng 333.91 23 HD 1691 L37 2020eb Larson, Rhett author. Just add water solving the world's problems using its most precious resource Rhett B. Larson. Electronic resources. 004 New York, NY Oxford University Press [2020] 1 online resource (pages cm.) text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Water security & climate change -- Water security & public health -- Water security & human rights -- Water security & racial discrimination -- Water security & gender inequality -- Water security & armed conflict -- Water security & mass migration -- Water security & technological innovation. Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory - one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe. In this book, I take a similar approach to social policy questions. What if we could find a unified social policy theory - the answer to every question from how to prevent war to how to promote gender equality? Most of our most serious global challenges are complex, multi-faceted 'wicked problems.' But perhaps the first step in solving wicked problems as seemingly distinct as racism and disease epidemics is the same: reform our laws, policies, and priorities to achieve global water security. Global water security means reasonable access for all people to water of acceptable quantity and quality with acceptable costs and risks. Just as the essential element to all life is water, so water is the essential element to solving life's challenges. Virtually every major social challenge - including gender inequality, racial discrimination, terrorism, space exploration, global disease epidemics, mass migrations, and climate change - has a significant and underappreciated water component. Each chapter of this book takes one of these wicked problems, illustrates the role water plays in that problem, and proposes reforms to address the water aspect of that problem, with the aim of achieving global water security. My goal in this this book is to convince the reader that the answer, or at least one part of the answer, to our most serious problems is the oft-repeated late-night infomercial exhortation - 'Just add water.'"-- Provided by publisher. Social problems. Electronic books. Water security Social aspects. Water-supply Social aspects. Larson, Rhett New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] Online version Just add water (DLC) 2019047240 9780190948030. Available to all UP Students https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190948009.001.0001 click here to access Available to all UP Students University of the Philippines, College of Law FO UPD DLAW HD 1691 L37 2020 Electronic Resource