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Negotiating for Water Resources
Bridging Transboundary River Basins
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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Over 90 per cent of the world population lives in countries that share a river basin with others. Freshwater resources are scarce and different nations, actors and users compete for limited resources in transboundary river basins; often conflicting with each other. Water is a resource with no …
Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin
Challenges and new investments
Av Emil Sandstrom, Anders Jagerskog m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower. The resource is the focus of much contested development, not only between upstream and downstream neighbours, but also from countries …
Environmental Water Markets and Regulation
A comparative legal approach
Häftad, 2019
690 kr
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River systems around the world are degraded and are being used unsustainably. Meeting this challenge requires the development of flexible regimes that have the potential to meet essential consumptive needs while restoring environmental flows. This book focuses on how water trading frameworks can be …
Global Water Ethics
Towards a global ethics charter
Av Rafael Ziegler, David Groenfeldt
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally …
Water and Rural Communities
Local Politics, Meaning and Place
Av Lia Bryant, with Jodie George
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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The overall theme of this book concerns the multiplicity and complexities of discursive constructions of water in Western economies in relation to irrigation communities. The authors argue that the politics of place is given meaning in relation to local knowledges and within multiple and …
Legal Frameworks for Transparency in Water Utilities Regulation
A comparative perspective
Häftad, 2019
690 kr
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Transparency in the regulation of water utilities is essential in order to ensure quality and fairness. This book explores and compares different regulatory arrangements in the water utilities sectors in three jurisdictions to determine which regulatory and ownership model is most transparent and …
Water Regimes
Beyond the public and private sector debate
Av Dominique Lorrain, Franck Poupeau
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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In recent years the water sector has undergone profound institutional, economic and political transformations. Some countries have encouraged privatization of water services, but in many cases this has provoked adverse reaction to such a neoliberal and market-based approach to this common shared …
Politics of Fresh Water
Access, conflict and identity
Av Catherine M. Ashcraft, Tamar Mayer
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions. This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is …
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture
Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
Av Jean-Philippe Venot, Marcel Kuper m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and …
Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters
The Law of International Watercourses
Inbunden, 2020
2311 kr
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Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of international watercourses with a particular focus on China. As a legal principle, reciprocity plays a strong role in the …
Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia
Epistemologies, Practices and Locales
Av Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in this regard. The starting point of this book is that these changes should not be seen as the result …
Community Management of Rural Water Supply
Case Studies of Success from India
Av Paul Hutchings, Richard Franceys m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India. Community management has long been the declared model for rural water supply and is recognised to be critical for its implementation and success. Based on 20 detailed successful case studies from …
Water Management in China’s Power Sector
Inbunden, 2020
997 kr
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This book examines water resource management in China’s electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change. Over 75% of China’s current electricity comes from coal. Coal-fired power plants are reliant on water, …
Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors in South Asia
The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin
Av Paula Hanasz
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard. Yet neither SAWI nor other …
Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Robyn Bartel, Louise Noble m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design. A more open policy conversation about water than exists at present is proposed – one that provides a space for the role of the imagination and is …
Participation for Effective Environmental Governance
Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation
Av Elisa Kochskämper, Edward Challies m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
663 kr
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Does participatory governance benefit the environment? The European Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000 with the aim of revolutionizing European water governance, mandates participatory river basin management planning across the European Union. The belief of European …
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin
Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation
Av Zeray Yihdego, Alistair Rieu-Clarke m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa’s largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region. This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing …
China's International Transboundary Rivers
Politics, Security and Diplomacy of Shared Water Resources
Av Lei Xie, Jia Shaofeng
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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China has forty major transboundary watercourses with neighbouring countries, and has frequently been accused of harming its downstream neighbours through its domestic water management policies, such as the construction of dams for hydropower. This book provides an understanding of water security …
Rivers and Society
Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods
Av Malcolm Cooper, Abhik Chakraborty m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, …
Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance
Public-Private Partnerships in Mexico and the US
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.S. The local nature of water services often hides the global developments behind the rise of …
Water, Technology and the Nation-State
Av Filippo Menga, Erik Swyngedouw
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Just as space, territory and society can be socially and politically co-constructed, so can water, and thus the construction of hydraulic infrastructures can be mobilised by politicians to consolidate their grip on power while nurturing their own vision of what the nation is or should become. This …
Biopolitics of Water
Governance, Scarcity and Populations
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Biopolitics refers to a form of politics concerned with administering and regulating the conditions of life at an aggregated level of populations. This book provides a biopolitical perspective on water governance and its effects. It draws on the work of Foucault to explore how notions of scarcity …
Water Allocation Law in New Zealand
Lessons from Australia
Häftad, 2022
636 kr
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This book analyses water allocation law and policy in New Zealand and offers a comparative analysis with Australia.In New Zealand, it is generally accepted that water allocation law has failed to be adequately addressed and New Zealand is now faced with the problem of over-allocation in many …
Legal Rights for Rivers
Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance
Häftad, 2020
663 kr
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In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA. Understanding the implications of creating legal rights for rivers is an urgent challenge for both water …
Water, Creativity and Meaning
Multidisciplinary understandings of human-water relationships
Av Liz Roberts, Katherine Phillips
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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At a time of great turmoil and crisis, environmentally, socially and politically, water has emerged as a topic of huge global concern. Moreover, many argue that what is needed in order to change our relationship with the environment is a cultural paradigm shift. To this end, this volume brings …
Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect
Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many countries for action is limited and may result in a ‘boomerang effect’, defined as the unintended negative …
Urban Water Sustainability
Constructing Infrastructure for Cities and Nature
Av Sarah Bell
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations. This book investigates the implications of different developments in water technology and infrastructure for urban sustainability and the relationship between cities and nature. The …
Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities
Streams of Environmental Justice
Av Richard Smardon, Sharon Moran m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
560 kr
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The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe. This book presents models and examples for organizing multiple stakeholders for purposes of waterway revitalization—if not restoration—within a context …
Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco
Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development
Inbunden, 2021
997 kr
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This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribution of Islam and the mixed influences of Greek …
Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco
Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development
Häftad, 2023
327 kr
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This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribution of Islam and the mixed influences of Greek …
