The University of Milan’s SHuS  (Interdisciplinary Research Centre  for Sustainability and Human Security: Co-operation and Governance agendas) offers  a collection of high standard contributions and testimonies of good practice analyzing  the complex subjects of access to rights and resources worldwide. This  to a world looking to the future and projecting its goals of sustainable development. The thirty three contributors took part in the Milan University  sessions of the International Conference dedicated to Land, Water and Resources Rights, organized by the Editor under the auspices of the EU-Joint Research Centre Expo 2015 and the City of Milan Scientific Committee for Expo 2015. With no claims  to being  exhaustive,  the multi-disciplinary approach and the inter-disciplinary perspectives adopted to the  topics are enforced by suggestions for political and legal approaches that a regional  structure like the EU should be  adopting  to prevent legitimization leading to severe forms of injustice against communities and individuals. SHuS  has chosen open access to this e-book  in order to create a seamless connection between scientific communities and the wider civil society. Thus it underscores one of the priorities of the Centre by  ensuring  the greatest possible impact of much needed multifaceted scientific approaches to  society and  the  problems afflicting it.