Robert William Sandford

Robert William Sandford is the EPCOR Chair for Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health. He is the co-author of the UN's Water in the World We Want report on post-2015 global sustainable development goals relating to water. He is also the author of some 30 books on the history, heritage, and landscape of the Canadian Rockies, including Water, Weather and the Mountain West , Restoring the Flow: Confronting the World's Water Woes ,...See more

Robert William Sandford is the EPCOR Chair for Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health. He is the co-author of the UN's Water in the World We Want report on post-2015 global sustainable development goals relating to water. He is also the author of some 30 books on the history, heritage, and landscape of the Canadian Rockies, including Water, Weather and the Mountain West , Restoring the Flow: Confronting the World's Water Woes , Ethical Water: Learning to Value What Matters Most , Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water , Saving Lake Winnipeg , Flood Forecast: Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada , Storm Warning: Water and Climate Security in a Changing World , North America in the Anthropocene , Our Vanishing Glaciers: The Snows of Yesteryear and the Future Climate of the Mountain West , The Weekender Effect: Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns - Updated Edition , and The Weekender Effect II: Fallout . He is also a co-author of The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer , The Climate Nexus: Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World , and The Hard Work of Hope: Climate Change in the Age of Trump . Robert lives in Canmore, Alberta. See less