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Zafar Adeel - Global resources and justice: water

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Channel: UN University · 2013 · Education

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Dr. Zafar Adeel is Director of United Nations University (UNU) Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) and Chair of UN-Water, a group that coordinates water-related work across multilateral water organizations. 

An international expert on water management and solutions to environmental problems, Dr. Adeel has led the development of a network of scientists working in water-scarce countries, across Africa, Middle East and Asia. He co-chaired the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment team that produced the Global Desertification Synthesis in 2005. Dr. Adeel has also served on the editorial boards of Sustainability Science (Springer) and Global Environmental Change (Elsevier Science) and is widely published on water resource issues. 

In this interview for United Nations University Conversation Series on Global Justice, Dr. Adeel shares his expertise to discusses "water justice" and the crucial role water is playing in debates about global resources.

You can find all the other videos in this series by clicking on the playlist link to the right of this video, or simply click on the link bellow:

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