Water, Security and U.S. Foreign Policy - 9781138051492

Taylor & Francis

Water, Security and U.S. Foreign PolicyAuthor(s): David Reed\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138051492, 978-1138051492\nSynopsis\nThe prosperity and national security of the United States depend directly on the prosperity and stability of both partner and competing countries around the world. Today, [url] interests are under rising pressure from water scarcity, extreme weather events and water-driven ecological change in key geographies of strategic interest to the [url] Those water-driven stresses are undermining economic productivity, weakening governance systems and fraying social cohesion in scores of countries and, in the process, undermining the vitality of rural livelihoods, fostering local and ethnic conflicts, driving broad migratory movements and contributing to the growth of insurgencies and terrorist networks. \n\nWhile the [url] intelligence community has steadily expanded natural resource concerns .