Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Many of you came to Barbara Rose Johnston’s talks on campus
last month where she mentioned this upcoming article.
Here is the link to the Table of Contents for the new
environmental and social science journal focused on water issues; 'Wiley
Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water' or WIREs Water.
Barbara Johnston and I co-authored an opinion piece in the
upcoming first issue of the journal titled “The precarious state of the
hydrosphere: why biocultural health matters.”
Abstract:
While the fundamental role of water as a human need and a
human right has been acknowledged by the United Nations and member states, too
often strategies to secure that right conflict with the competing interests and
actions for the same resource. We are approaching a global tipping point in the
hydrosphere where the biocultural sustainability of water resources is
threatened by the cumulative and synergistic impacts of degenerative changes.
When water that sustains life, livelihoods, and culture is threatened, the
cultural stability and diversity of peoples and their environment is also
threatened. Achieving long-term sustainability of our hydrosphere requires
re-embedding social, cultural, and environmental concerns within and throughout
the local, regional, and global systems that plan, finance, develop, manage,
and use our world's water. WIREs Water 2013. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1003
Advance publication is now available online: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2049-1948/earlyview.
If you would like a copy of our essay and are unable to access the Wiley
content via university or institutional subscription, drop us a line and
we will send you our essay.
All the Best and thanks!
Barbara Rose Johnston and Shirley J. Fiske
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