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]).
Community Management of Rural Water Supply: Case Studies of Success from India
1st Edition
By Paul Hutchings, Richard Franceys, Stef Smits, Snehalatha Mekala
April 15, 2019
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 ...
Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales
1st Edition
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By Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan, Joseph K.W. Hill
April 15, 2019
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 ...
Global Water Ethics: Towards a global ethics charter
1st Edition
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By Rafael Ziegler, David Groenfeldt
March 21, 2019
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 ...
Legal Frameworks for Transparency in Water Utilities Regulation: A comparative perspective
1st Edition
By Mohamad Mova Al'Afghani
February 04, 2019
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 ...
The Politics of Fresh Water: Access, conflict and identity
1st Edition
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By Catherine M. Ashcraft, Tamar Mayer
February 04, 2019
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 ...
Water Regimes: Beyond the public and private sector debate
1st Edition
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By Dominique Lorrain, Franck Poupeau
February 04, 2019
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 ...
Water and Rural Communities: Local Politics, Meaning and Place
1st Edition
By Lia Bryant, with Jodie George
February 04, 2019
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 ...
Environmental Water Markets and Regulation: A comparative legal approach
1st Edition
By Katherine Owens
January 11, 2019
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...
Land and Hydropolitics in the Nile River Basin: Challenges and new investments
1st Edition
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By Emil Sandstrom, Anders Jagerskog, Terje Oestigaard
January 11, 2019
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 ...
Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance
1st Edition
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By Janice Gray, Cameron Holley, Rosemary Rayfuse
January 03, 2019
Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance. With considerable government, citizen and financial donor attention devoted to a range of international, transnational and domestic laws and policies aimed at protecting...
Hydropower Development in the Mekong Region: Political, Socio-economic and Environmental Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nathanial Matthews, Kim Geheb
August 23, 2018
The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies. But the Mekong is also currently undergoing enormous social, economic, and ecological change of which hydropower development ...
Water and Cities in Latin America: Challenges for Sustainable Development
1st Edition
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By Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Jonathan Kaledin, Marianne Kjellén, Abel Mejía-Betancourt
August 14, 2018
Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. ...