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]).
Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities: Streams of Environmental Justice
1st Edition
By Richard Smardon, Sharon Moran, April Karen Baptiste
June 30, 2020
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...
Urban Water Sustainability: Constructing Infrastructure for Cities and Nature
1st Edition
By Sarah Bell
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect: Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity
1st Edition
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By Larry Swatuk, Lars Wirkus
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Water, Creativity and Meaning: Multidisciplinary understandings of human-water relationships
1st Edition
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By Liz Roberts, Katherine Phillips
June 30, 2020
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 ...
Water, Technology and the Nation-State
1st Edition
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By Filippo Menga, Erik Swyngedouw
March 04, 2020
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 ...
Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation: Interdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
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By Robyn Bartel, Louise Noble, Jacqueline Williams, Stephen Harris
October 28, 2019
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 ...
Rivers and Society: Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods
1st Edition
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By Malcolm Cooper, Abhik Chakraborty, Shamik Chakraborty
July 29, 2019
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, ...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile Basin: Implications for Transboundary Water Cooperation
1st Edition
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By Zeray Yihdego, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Ana Elisa Cascão
July 29, 2019
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
1st Edition
By Lei Xie, Jia Shaofeng
July 25, 2019
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 ...
Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors in South Asia: The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin
1st Edition
By Paula Hanasz
May 21, 2019
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 ...
Participation for Effective Environmental Governance: Evidence from European Water Framework Directive Implementation
1st Edition
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By Elisa Kochskämper, Edward Challies, Nicolas W. Jager, Jens Newig
May 17, 2019
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 ...
Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development
1st Edition
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By Jean-Philippe Venot, Marcel Kuper, Margreet Zwarteveen
April 16, 2019
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 ...