Water Governance Nurturing Resilience for Sustainable Development

Foreword by Anawat Suppasri

Preface

1. Concept of Resilience Related to Water Governance

Umair Riaz, Laila Shahzad, Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli

2. From Theory to Practice: What Is a Water Resilience Framework?

Ahmed Albahnasawi, Murat Eyvaz, Motasem Y.D. Alazaiza, Nurullah Özdoğan, Ercan Gurbulak, and Ebubekir Yuksel

3. Boosting Water Resilience in Businesses: A New Look

Asma Mansoor and Laila Shahzad

4. Nexus of Changing Climate, Water, and Food Scarcity

Monica Butnariu

5. Exploring the Resilience of Water in a Socioecological System

Zafar Siddiq, Muhammad Umar Hayyat, and Dawood Ayub

6. Governing Health Linked with Water: Role of Resilience in Sustaining Life

Arifa Tahir, Masooma Batool, and Nadia Ghani

7. Water Management and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Climate Change

Muhammad Ameen, Javaid Akhtar, Muhammad Anwar-Ul-Haq, and Naqshe Zuhra

8. Water in Political Boundaries of Crisis

Fouzia Ghani, Omer Khawar, and Marriam Mubashar

9. Climate Adaptation in the Water Sector: Study of South Asian Practices

Muhammad Khalid Jamil, Maryam Dogar, Mahreen Khalid, and Mahnoor Naveed

10. How Can Water Resilience Make the World Live Longer? Challenges and Opportunities

Rohama Nassir, Neha Javid John, Qaiser Farid Khan, and Muhammad Ali

11. The Economic Side of Issue: Water, Energy, and Food: Case Studies from the Developed and Developing World

Naghmana Ghafoor, Gul Zareen Ghafoor, Memuna Ghafoor Shahid, Ayesha Qazi, and Kinza Ikram

12. Governance for a Water-Resilient World

Amina Kanwal, Muhammad Farhan, and Faiza Sharif

13. Nurturing Resilience: Unraveling the Transformative Power of Water Governance Through Scientific Inquiry

Najma Majeed, Ayesha Ali, Minahil Athar, Sajeela Sehar, Mehwish Sanaullah, Ahmad Iqbal, Muhammad Usman Jamshaid, Umair Riaz, Wazir Ahmad, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Imran, Ryota Kataoka, Waleed Asghar, and Ahmad Mahmood

Biography

Umair Riaz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Soil and Environmental Sciences at MNS University of Agriculture, Pakistan. He formerly served as a Scientific Officer (Lab) at the Soil and Water Testing Laboratory for Research, Pakistan, specializing in waste management, metal toxicology, phytochemistry, and phytoremediation. He is the author of research papers and book chapters and has presented at and participated in conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia. Dr. Riaz has worked as a research associate on projects funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and also served as an editorial board member and reviewer for international journals.

Laila Shahzad, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Sustainable Development Study Centre at Government College University, Pakistan. With more than 15 years of experience in research in climatic studies, water resources, and ecosystem services, she has published scientific articles and book chapters in the fields of environmental change, resilience and sustainability, global health, agricultural water management, and disaster risk. Dr. Shahzad is editorial board member for Societal Impacts and managing editor of the Journal of Quality Assurance in Agricultural Sciences.

Fernanda Maria Policarpo Tonelli, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Federal University of São João del Rei, Brazil. She specializes in biotechnology/molecular biology and has been studying nanomaterials applications such as delivery and remediation, green synthesis protocols, and the allelopathic potential of secondary metabolites from plants, resulting in several granted patents. She has published books, scientific articles, and book chapters with international publishers. She has been recognized with various awards, including “For Women in Science Brazil” (awarded by L’Oreal Brasil,UNESCO in Brazil, and Brazilian Academy of Sciences) and “Under 30 Brazil” (Forbes).

“First of its kind to offer multiple issues governing the world and particularly South Asia . . . [Offers] a broader perspective that includes how the climatic changes has made water resilience a necessary objective to achieve in all sectors of life  . . . and pinpoints if the sustainable development goals are paving the ways towards sustainable water solutions.”

—From the Foreword by Anawat Suppasri, PhD, Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan