The four volumes of this collection broadly outline the debate as it has developed, both from a policy as well as an academic perspective, bringing conceptual clarity as well as providing an account of how the water security discourse has emerged and developed. 

VOLUME ONE: WATER SCARCITY EMERGING Securitizing Water - Úrsula Oswald Spring and Hans Günter Brauch Global Water Issues Confronting Humanity - Malin Falkenmark The New Blue and Green Water Paradigm: Breaking New Ground for Water Resources Planning and Management - Malin Falkenmark and Johan Rockström Transitions towards Adaptive Management of Water Facing Climate and Global Change - Claudia Pahl-Wostl Global Water Resources - I. Shiklomanov Avert Looming Hydrocide - Jan Lundqvist Water Scarcity as a Source of Crises - Ashok Swain Water and Conflict: Fresh Water Resources and International Security - Peter Gleick Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources - Taikan Oki and Shinjiro Kanae Entering an Era of Water Scarcity: The Challenges Ahead - Sandra Postel Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth - Charles Vörösmarty et al. Groundwater Management and Socioeconomic Responses - Jacob Burke, Claude Sauveplane and Marcus Moench Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management? - P.C.D. Milly et al. On the Verge of a New Water Scarcity: A Call for Good Governance and Human Ingenuity - Malin Falkenmark Saving Water: From Field to Fork – Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain - J. Lundqvist, C. de Fraiture and D. Molden The Value of Cooperation in Resolving International River Basin Disputes - Peter Rogers VOLUME TWO: WATER WARS AND WATER COOPERATION The War over Water - John Cooley Water Wars - Joyce Starr Water and International Conflict - Helga Haftendorn Water Wars: Fact or Fiction - Ashok Swain Conflict and Co-operation in International Freshwater Management: A Global Review - Erik Mostert Water Wars: Obscuring Opportunities - Karin Bencala and Geoffrey Dabelko Capturing the Nature of Cooperation, Unstable Cooperation and Conflict over International Rivers: The Story of the Indus, Yarmouk, Euphrates and Tigris Rivers - Neda Zawahri Hydro-Hegemony a Framework for Analysis of Transboundary Water Conflicts - Mark Zeitoun and Jeroen Warner The Political Context of Conflict and Cooperation over International River Basins - Frederick Frey Transboundary Water Interaction I: Reconsidering Conflict and Cooperation - Mark Zeitoun and Naho Mirumachi The Need for Flexibility in Freshwater Treaty Regimes - Stephen McCaffrey Conflict and Cooperation along International Waterways - Aaron Wolf Beyond the River: The Benefits of Cooperation on International Rivers - Claudia Sadoff and David Grey The Past, Present, and Future of Water Conflict and International Security - David Kreamer Reframing the Water Security Dialogue - Dan Tarlock and Patricia Wouters VOLUME THREE: WATER SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENTS “Water, Water Everywhere...” Improving the Availability of Clean Water and Sanitation - Allerd Stikker and Dorota Juchniewicz The Sustainability and Resilience of Global Water and Food Systems: Political Analysis of the Interplay between Security, Resource Scarcity, Political Systems and Global Trade - Jeremy Allouche Domestic Water and Sanitation as Water Security: Monitoring, Concepts and Strategy - David Bradley and Jamie Bartram Water Security: Why It Matters and What to Do about It - John Briscoe Addressing the Global Water and Environment Crises through Integrated Approaches to the Management of Land, Water and Ecological Resources - Alfred Duda and Mohamed El-Ashry The Human Right to Water - Peter Gleick Global Water Crisis and Future Food Security in an Era of Climate Change - Munir A. Hanjra and M. Ejaz Qureshi Risks and Responses to Universal Drinking Water Security - Robert Hope and Michael Rouse Water Security: Old Concepts, New Package, What Value? - Jonathan Lautze and Herath Manthrithilake Good Governance for Food Water and Energy Security - U. Lele, M. Klousia-Marquis and S. Goswami Nirvana Concepts, Narratives and Policy Models: Insight from the Water Sector - François Molle Will the World Run Dry? Global Water and Food Security - Mark Rosegrant, Ximing Cai and Sarah Cline Energy and Water Trade-Offs in Enhancing Food Security: A Selective International Assessment - Shahbaz Mushtaqa, Tek Narayan Marasenia, Jerry Maroulisa and Mohsin Hafeezb The Right to Water and Sanitation in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding - Mara Tignino The Global Web of National Water Security - Mark Zeitoun VOLUME FOUR: GLOBAL WATER CRISIS AND BEYOND Facing the Freshwater Crisis - Peter Rogers Water Security for a Planet under Pressure: Interconnected Challenges of a Changing World Call for Sustainable Solutions - Janos Bogardi et al. Growing Water Scarcity in Agriculture: Future Challenges to Global Water Security - Malin Falkenmark Re-Thinking Water Scarcity: Can Science and Technology Solve the Global Water Crisis? - Elena Lopez-Gunn and Manuel Ramón Llamas Producing More Food with Less Water in a Changing World: Assessment of Water Productivity in 10 Major River Basins - Xueliang Cai et al. Virtual Water – The Water, Food, and Trade Nexus: Useful Concept or Misleading Metaphor? - J. Allan Water Wars by Other Means: Virtual Water and Global Economic Reconstructing - Andrew Biro Foreign Agricultural Land Acquisition and the Visibility of Water Resource Impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa - Philip Woodhouse The United Nations Watercourses Convention Ten Years Later: Why Has Its Entry into Force Proven Difficult? - Salman M.A. Salman Governance Mechanisms to Address Flow Variability in Water Treaties - Alena Drieschova, Mark Giordano and Itay Fishhendler Climate Proofing Transboundary Water Agreements - Heather Cooley and Peter Gleick Global Climate Change and Challenges for International River Agreements - Ashok Swain Global Regime Formation or Complex Institution Building? The Principled Content of International River Agreements - Ken Conca, Fengshi Wu and Ciqi Mei Governance and the Global Water System: A Theoretical Exploration - Claudia Pahl-Wosti, Joyeeta Gupta and Daniel Petry Water Security: Debating an Emerging Paradigm - Christina Cook and Karen Bakker