Water Resilience for Human Prosperity will be available world-wide in the first quarter of 2014 from Cambridge University Press and major national and international resell-ers. The book is currently available for preorder, and the publisher is accepting institutional inquiries.

This is an important, state-of-the-art resource for academic researchers and water resource professionals, and a key reference for graduate students studying water resource governance and management.

• A new approach to water-resource governance and management in the context of rapid global change – building social-ecological resilience for ecosystems and development

• Provides a deeper understanding of the role of freshwater for ecosystem functions and services

• Places water in relation to, and in interactions with, other key global change dynamics such as climate change and globalisation

The hardback book features more than 100 colour figures as well as photos by renowned photographer Mattias Klum (National Geographic).

For more information, preordering and inquiries, please contact Stockholm Resil-ience Centre, Stockholm Environment Institute or Cambridge University Press.

Water Resilience for Human Prosperity

Johan Rockström Malin Falkenmark

Carl Folke Mats Lannerstad

Jennie Barron Elin Enfors

Line Gordon Jens Heinke

Holger Hoff Claudia Pahl-Wostl

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Water Resilience for Human ProsperityJohan Rockström, Malin Falkenmark, Carl Folke, Mats Lannerstad, Jennie Barron,

Elin Enfors, Line Gordon, Jens Heinke, Holger Hoff and Claudia Pahl-Wostl

The latest science on the role of water in an era of rapid global change and introducing the concept of water resilience as an integral part for sustainable water management and global sustainability

The Anthropocene – turbulent timesWe have entered a new era, the Anthropocene, in which humanity is the largest driving force for global change. In the past 50 years, trends show a rapid acceleration of human enterprise: wealth, population, globalisation, agriculture and industry. Stress on the biosphere may cause collapses and major shifts on all scales. The ability to generate social and economic well-being for an increasing population is now threatened. Water is at the centre of this change, where events on local scales both impact on and are impacted by shifts on regional and global scales.

Water – the bloodstream of the biosphere The new water-resilience perspective recognises water as the bloodstream of the terrestrial biosphere. It embraces the insight that green water (water used by plants) and blue water (riv-ers and groundwater) are linked on local, regional and global scales, and considers how water relates to the social dimension and resilience.Water is a key element in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and a resource that supports hu-man health, industry and energy generation. Planetary constraints limit the functioning of a re-silient global water system, and there is reason for a new level of concern over water resources.

Water-related regime shiftsWater is profoundly involved in ‘regime shifts’ in social-ecological systems. Shifts may origi-nate from disturbances in water partitioning and relate to both blue-water systems (depletion of river flow, groundwater resource and water quality) and green-water systems (deforestation, land-use change, alterations in consumptive water use, change in moisture feedbacks). Poten-tial regime shifts include the dieback of Amazonian rainforest; Arctic ice loss; and the Atlantic deep-water formation.

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Water Resilience for Human Prosperity

The resilience-based integrated green and blue water (ILWRM) framework presented in Water Resilience for Human Prosperity (far-right box) builds on the water-resource thinking utilised within governance and policy during the past 30 years, starting with the predominantly ‘blue’ water approaches of the pre-1990s, via the introduction of integrated water resource manage-ment (IWRM) in the early 1990s. This was followed by a more systems-oriented approach – integrated land and water resources management (ILWRM) – to water and land in the early 2000s, with an emphasis on the ‘blue’ water branch of environmental water flows.

Human activities

Water partitioning

Ecosystem services

Water alterations

Rainwater

Aquaticfeedback

flows

Terrestrialfeedbackflows

A scale- and time-dependent integrated perspective of the links in the hydrological cycle between rainwater; green water (water used by plants) and blue freshwater (rivers and groundwater) flows; ecosystem functions and services; and water feedbacks.

Land-water links and human food supply Links between land and water are fundamental to managing water resources. By 2050, currently available water on croplands will not be sufficient to produce food for humanity, at least on current dietary trends. Water Resilience for Human Prosperity explores scenarios for possible paths in water productivity, climate change and dietary options. Agricultural water management with a broad resilience perspective is the key to managing agricultural productivity and yields.

Governance frontiersThe use of integrated water resource management (IWRM) has not transformed the governance or management of freshwater. In particular, this is a result of institutional barriers and the fact that the IWRM approach has not fully embraced green water.However, with the trend toward rainfed agriculture, green water has now come into focus. Water Resilience for Human Prosperity presents a framework which takes in stewardship of precipitation; how to capture rain and rainfall pulses before they are lost from the landscape; and balancing competing demands both upstream (between terrestrial ecosystems and run-off generation) and downstream (between wetlands, cities and aquatic ecosystems). The role of water in global sustainability is a key part of the approach, and is analysed both in terms of securing water for local development and with regards to the impact of water on tipping points in the earth system.New multi-level, polycentric governance structures and systems are needed to put this per-spective into practice. Water needs to be further integrated into human development by including the ‘land’ component in a new water governance. The focus is on building social and ecologi-cal resilience – in a future where we can expect frequent water-related shocks and stresses.