Water security in the Mediterranean region. An international evaluation of management, control, and governance approaches

The role of water in our communities, from local to regional and right up to global levels,poses a series of key questions about climate change, about the anthropogenic impacton the environment, and about all the interconnected actions and events that affect theavailability and quality of the resource. All these questions  share a common demandfor more scientific knowledge and information. In this particular context the disciplinaryboundaries are fading, and there is a growing need to create broader connections andwider collaborative interdisciplinary groups, aimed at building an integrated knowledgebase to serve not only stakeholders but also the whole of society. Only in this way canwe hope to respond effectively to the challenges and changing dynamics of humanhydrologic systems.     Following this concept, contributors from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, suchas Law Studies, Hydrogeology, Monitoring and Information Technologies, Geophysics,Geochemistry,  Environmental Sciences, Systems Engineering, Economics and SocialStudies, joined forces and interacted in this workshop. The present book reports theproceedings of this three-day ARW (Advanced Research Workshop), and explores differentaspects of the environmental security assessment process, focusing on the assessment,monitoring and management of water resources, and giving an overview of the relatedscientific knowledge