Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to water resource management, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Desalination and Water Security
1st Edition
By Chris Anastasi
January 31, 2024
Desalination is to the water industry what renewables are to the electricity sector. However, unlike renewables, the former is being deployed in a quiet revolution away from public glare. This book provides a holistic view of desalination, highlighting the important role this technology can play in...
Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Jenniver Sehring, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Margreet Zwarteveen
January 29, 2024
This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners’ accounts, and theoretical reflections. Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two highly masculinised fields: diplomacy and water ...
Defining Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation
1st Edition
By Melissa McCracken
September 25, 2023
This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes. With the increasing focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the ...
Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco: Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Sandrine Simon
May 31, 2023
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 ...
Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance: Public-Private Partnerships in Mexico and the US
1st Edition
By Joyce Valdovinos
May 31, 2023
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 ...
Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses
1st Edition
By David J. Devlaeminck
January 09, 2023
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 ...
Water Management in China’s Power Sector
1st Edition
By Xiawei Liao, Jim W. Hall
January 09, 2023
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 Management and Violent Conflict in East Africa: Scarcity and Security in Kenya and Uganda
1st Edition
By Julia Renner-Mugono
December 29, 2022
This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda. When international economic endeavours like flower farming, oil exploration and ...
Water Allocation Law in New Zealand: Lessons from Australia
1st Edition
By Jagdeepkaur Singh-Ladhar
August 01, 2022
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 ...
Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Water Diplomacy: A Principled and Pragmatic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Shafiqul Islam, Kevin M. Smith
June 30, 2021
This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem-driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems. The findings of the ...
The Biopolitics of Water: Governance, Scarcity and Populations
1st Edition
By Sofie Hellberg
March 31, 2021
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 ...
Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance
1st Edition
By Erin O'Donnell
June 30, 2020
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 ...