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Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation

2013 Leila M. Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin and Christopher Sneddon selection and editorial material, individual chapters, the contributors ;ISBN: 1135125058 ;ISBN: 9781135125059 ;ISBN: 0415657997 ;ISBN: 9780415657990 ;ISBN: 1138672769 ;ISBN: 9781138672765 ;EISBN: 9780203076361 ;EISBN: 0203076362 ;EISBN: 9780415657990 ;EISBN: 9781135125042 ;EISBN: 0415657997 ;EISBN: 113512504X ;EISBN: 1135125058 ;EISBN: 9781135125059 ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203076361 ;OCLC: 847948932

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  • Title:
    Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
  • Author: Harris, Leila M ; Goldin, Jacqueline A ; Sneddon, Christopher
  • Goldin, Jacqueline A ; Sneddon, Christopher ; Harris, Leila M ; Goldin, Jacqueline A. ; Sneddon, Christopher ; Harris, Leila M.
  • Subjects: Biodiversity ; Climate Change ; Conservation ; Conservation - Environment Studies ; Developing countries ; Development Geography ; Development Studies ; Economics ; Environment & Resources ; Environment & the Developing World ; Environmental Economics ; Environmental Geography ; Environmental Issues ; Environmental Law - Law ; Environmental Management ; Environmental Policy ; Environmental Politics ; Environmental Studies ; hegemonic ; International Relations ; privatization ; scarcity ; Sustainability ; Sustainable Development ; Water resources development ; Water rights ; Water security ; Water-supply
  • Description: The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar – over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally – scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates and policy-makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world. The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally—scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked to scarcity and crisis take hold, and become entrenched in policy and practice. The book also investigates ideas of marketization and privatization, increasingly prominent features of water governance throughout the global South, with particular attention to the varied implementation and effects of these governance practices. The final section of the volume analyzes participatory water governance, querying the disconnects between global discourses and local realities, particularly as they intersect with the other themes of interest to the volume. Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates, and policy makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world.
  • Publisher: United Kingdom: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 280
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 1135125058
    ISBN: 9781135125059
    ISBN: 0415657997
    ISBN: 9780415657990
    ISBN: 1138672769
    ISBN: 9781138672765
    EISBN: 9780203076361
    EISBN: 0203076362
    EISBN: 9780415657990
    EISBN: 9781135125042
    EISBN: 0415657997
    EISBN: 113512504X
    EISBN: 1135125058
    EISBN: 9781135125059
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203076361
    OCLC: 847948932
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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