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Author: Veronica Herrera
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0472130323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how public water service becomes a political tool in Mexican cities and uncovers the politics of water provision in developing democracies
Author: David L. Feldman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1509504656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious. In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and challenges in water politics today. Its ten chapters explore the processes that determine how this unique resource captures our attention, the sources of power that determine how we allocate, use, and protect it, and the purposes that direct decisions over its cost, availability, and access. Drawing on contemporary water controversies from every continent from Flint, Michigan to Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and Beijing the book argues that cooperation and more equitable water management are imperative if the global community is to adequately address water challenges and their associated risks, particularly in the developing world. While alternatives for enhancing water supply, including waste-water re-use, desalination, and conservation abound, without inclusive means of addressing citizens' concerns, their adoption faces severe hurdles that can impede cooperation and generate additional conflicts.
Author: M. Dolatyar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1999-09-21
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0230599877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost studies of water scarcity in the Middle East conclude that there is a significant risk of imminent conflict, even warfare, between states in the region. This book demonstrates that the evidence does not support this doom-laden prediction. Indeed, the authors show that although water scarcity has occasionally played a role in disputes in the Middle East, it has much more often promoted co-existence between adversaries. The reasoning behind this hypothesis is that water is too critical to be put at risk by warfare.
Author: Kimberley Kinder
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0820347949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around civic concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform. Amsterdam's development serves as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for cities across Europe and North America where rapid new growth creates similar pressures.
Author: Wendy Nelson Espeland
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-09
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780226217932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the dam would bring valuable water to this arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. The Struggle for Water is not only the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted public works project but also a study of rationality as a cultural, organizational, and political construct. In the 1970s, the three groups most intimately involved in the Orme Dam—younger Bureau of Reclamation employees committed to "rational choice" decision making, older Bureau engineers committed to the dam, and the Yavapai community—all found themselves and their values transformed by their struggles. Wendy Nelson Espeland lays bare the relations between interests and identities that emerged during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice, that asks the crucial question of what it means to be "rational."
Author: Waltina Scheumann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2008-09-22
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 354076707X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe importance of the political sphere for understanding and solving water sector problems is the basic rationale of this book, which is the outcome of the Fifth Dialogues on Water, organised at the German Development Institute, Bonn. These dialogues, unlike earlier ones, focused on the political processes of policy formulation and the strategic behaviour of the actors involved. Specific attention is devoted to implications for development cooperation.
Author: Farhana Sultana
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138320024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to critically shed light on the pathways, pitfalls, prospects, and constraints that exist in achieving global goals, as well as advance debates around water governance and water justice.
Author: Ken Conca
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 0199335087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. For more information, please read the site FAQs.
Author: Farhana Sultana
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136518649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.
Author: Christopher J. Manganiello
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1469620065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy has the American South--a place with abundant rainfall--become embroiled in intrastate wars over water? Why did unpredictable flooding come to characterize southern waterways, and how did a region that seemed so rich in this all-important resource become derailed by drought and the regional squabbling that has tormented the arid American West? To answer these questions, policy expert and historian Christopher Manganiello moves beyond the well-known accounts of flooding in the Mississippi Valley and irrigation in the West to reveal the contested history of southern water. From the New South to the Sun Belt eras, private corporations, public utilities, and political actors made a region-defining trade-off: The South would have cheap energy, but it would be accompanied by persistent water insecurity. Manganiello's compelling environmental history recounts stories of the people and institutions that shaped this exchange and reveals how the use of water and power in the South has been challenged by competition, customers, constituents, and above all, nature itself.
