Arab Water Security
Arab Water Security
This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states' reliance on desalination plants, and their related infrastructure. It provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of current and future threats to the supply of freshwater from a desalination plant, including actual and virtual attacks by terrorists, mechanical failure, contamination, sabotage by aggrieved workers, and attacks relating to regional conflicts, as well as their vulnerability to natural disasters. It also provides a detailed analysis of the effects of a potential disruption to the water supply, and proposes possible measures, both political and technological, that can be used to increase resilience to these threats. Arab Water Security is a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students, as well as for policy makers and professionals, interested in water security, natural resources, and environmental terrorism.
- Offers the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the effects of potential disruption to the supply of freshwater from a desalination plant on national and human security
- Outlines contemporary threats to water security in the Gulf, including sabotage by aggrieved workers
- Proposes strategies for enhancing water security of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states
- Takes an integrated approach, discussing both water and food security, in a distinctive geopolitical setting
Product details
July 2015Hardback
9781107042292
178 pages
264 × 181 × 18 mm
0.5kg
9 b/w illus. 19 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Rethinking water and food security in the Arab Gulf states
- 2. Threats to water security
- 3. Outsourcing farming
- 4. Responses to water insecurity
- 5. The future of water and food security
- References
- Index.
