Tony Allan An Intellectual Journey

Introduction: A life exploring blind corners: Tony Allan’s legacy

David Dent, Martin Keulertz and Michael Gilmont

Part I: Foundations, innovations and water politics: Tony Allan's early legacy

1. ‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan

Stephen F. Lintner

2. Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO): results from 50 years of remote sensing in hydrology

Tim Hessels, Jeffrey C. Davids and Wim Bastiaanssen

3. Professor Tony Allan and Libya

Salem Maiar

4. Of intellectual friendship in fin-de-siècle London

Chibli Mallat

5. Recollections of a peacemaker

Munther J. Haddadin

6. Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings

Charles Tripp

7. Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse

Anders Jägerskog and Jan Lundqvist

8. How virtual water saved the Middle East from water wars

Greg Shapland

9. From zero-sum to variable-sum on the Nile

John Waterbury

10. Egypt’s water balancing act

Stephen Brichieri-Colombi

11. Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile

Dale Whittington

12. Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda

Alan Nicol, Liza Debevec and Samuel Okene Ayaru

13. Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia

Elie Elhadj

14. Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation

Richard Schofield

15. Power plus: Tony Allan’s contributions to understanding transboundary water arrangements

Mark Zeitoun, Ana Elisa Cascão, Marwa Daoudy, Francesca Greco, Naho Mirumachi and Jeroen Warner

Part II: Beyond water: private enterprise, food security, and systemic change

16. I remember Tony

Carl Hausmann

17. The role of the private sector in sustainable development

Rabi H. Mohtar

18. The private sector and water services: a reflection

David Lloyd Owen

19. Water governance and system coordination across diverse risk-management cultures

Brendan Bromwich, Damian Crilly and Jyoti Banerjee

20. Chronic crisis: 30 years on from the Dublin Principles and still no market to value water

Martin Keulertz and Phil Riddell

21. When the virtual water runs out: local and global responses to addressing unsustainable groundwater consumption

Iman Haqiqi, Chris J. Perry and Thomas W. Hertel

22. The problem with water footprints outside of irrigated drylands

Mark Mulligan

23. Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food

Eckart Woertz

24. The role of virtual-water decoupling in achieving food–water security: lessons from Egypt, 1962–2013

Ahmed Tayia, Alexandra M. Collins and Michael Gilmont

25. Unexpected bright spots: how the pandemic, climate change and biodiversity loss are shaping the evolution of the nexus

Nathanial Matthews, Bart Schoonbaert and Elizabeth Burlon

26. Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story

Francesca Greco

27. Accountants will save the world!

Andrew Ross

28. Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’

Bruce A. Lankford

29. Farmers will save the world!

Brian Chatterton

30. Crossed wires: public regulation and private action for water stewardship and sustainable farming

Peter Newborne

31. How decisions are made by politicians through the advocacy of peer reviewed research: the lens of advocacy coalition theory

Anthony J. Colman

32. The cost of food.  Consequences of not valuing soil and water and the people who manage them

Tony Allan and David Dent

Biography

David Dent graduated from University of Durham, UK. A soil surveyor, he has dug in every continent. Turning to land evaluation, land use planning, and the science-policy interface, he has advised national governments, international organisations, and multinationals. He is former Director of ISRIC-World Soil Information.

Martin Keulertz is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Food Security at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Michael Gilmont is a Research Affiliate at the Institute or Science and Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford, focusing on interdisciplinary hydrological, political economy approaches to water management. Subsequent to work on this book, he has been an adviser to the UN Environment Programme.