12 presentations from throughout Latin America from the project concluded by RIMISP in 2007.

Aspectos teóricos sobre la gestión integrada de los recursos hídricos / - Aguas continentales y marinas. Protección / Antonio Embid Irujo / - Análisis del proceso del sector sanitario chileno: desde la gestión estatal hasta la privatización / María Angélica Alegría Calvo / - Hacia una política hídrica para la República Argentina / Ignacio Óscar Enríquez / - Una ley agua para Colombia / Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez Castañeda / - La gestión integrada de los recursos hídricos como herramienta para lograr el objetivo constitucional del desarrollo sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe / Óscar Darío Amaya Navas / - El mercado de agua en Chile: análisis teórico y empírico de su funcionamiento / María Angélica Alegría Calvo / - Situación actual del río Bogotá / Gloria Lucía Álvarez Pinzón.

In the post-Cold War era, the pre-eminent threats to our security derive from human degradation of vital ecosystems as well as the possibility of war and terrorist attack. This substantial book examines this new 'security-environment' paradigm and the way in which the activities of societies are shifting the balance with nature. The distinguished authors investigate this redefinition of security with particular reference to environmental threats such as climate change and the availability of adequate supplies of food and water. They illustrate how unfettered economic growth, rising levels of personal consumption and unsustainable natural resource and energy procurement are taking a heavy toll on the global environment. This, in turn, is forcing both developed and developing countries to re-evaluate the more immediate environmental security of their own populations. For a truly global perspective, the authors present a series of country case-studies, looking at issues of security and environment, and comparing how they influence policy and human well-being. They also discuss a number of theoretical issues which underpin discussions of 'environmental security', demonstrating that this is a relatively new and essentially contested concept.