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]).
Negotiating for Water Resources: Bridging Transboundary River Basins
1st Edition
By Andrea Haefner
July 27, 2018
Over 90 per cent of the world population lives in countries that share a river basin with others. Freshwater resources are scarce and different nations, actors and users compete for limited resources in transboundary river basins; often conflicting with each other. Water is a resource with no ...
Water for Food Security and Well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean: Social and Environmental Implications for a Globalized Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Bárbara A. Willaarts, Alberto Garrido, M. Ramon Llamas
June 08, 2018
This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Although the book takes a regional approach,...
Adaptation to Climate Change through Water Resources Management: Capacity, Equity and Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominic Stucker, Elena Lopez-Gunn
December 08, 2017
The impacts of human-induced climate change are largely mediated by water, such as alterations in precipitation and glacial melt patterns, variations in river flow, increased occurrence of droughts and floods, and sea level rise in densely populated coastal areas. Such phenomena impact both urban ...
Freshwater Ecosystems in Protected Areas: Conservation and Management
1st Edition
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By C. Max Finlayson, Angela H. Arthington, Jamie Pittock
December 08, 2017
Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marginal part of terrestrial protected area management, freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for ...
Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies: Hydropower Development on the Mekong River
1st Edition
By Yumiko Yasuda
December 08, 2017
There is much controversy over the development of new dams for hydropower, where concerns for environmental protection and the livelihoods of local people may conflict with the goals of economic development. This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face ...
Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer: International Studies on Contextual Water Management
1st Edition
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By Cheryl De Boer, Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf, Gül Özerol, Hans Th. A. Bressers
October 27, 2017
In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to ...
Water as a Catalyst for Peace: Transboundary Water Management and Conflict Resolution
1st Edition
By Ahmed Abukhater
October 27, 2017
Examining international water allocation policies in different parts of the world, this book suggests that they can be used as a platform to induce cooperation over larger political issues, ultimately settling conflicts. The main premise is that water can and should be used as a catalyst for peace ...
International Water Law and the Quest for Common Security
1st Edition
By Bjorn-Oliver Magsig
October 23, 2017
The world’s freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change, but current approaches to transboundary water management are unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and international security. The absence of law in ...
Transboundary Water Politics in the Developing World
1st Edition
By Naho Mirumachi
July 31, 2017
This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world. These shared rivers are the setting for irrigation, hydropower and flood management projects as well as water transfer schemes. Often, these projects attempt to ...
Catchment and River Basin Management: Integrating Science and Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurence Smith, Keith Porter, Kevin Hiscock, Mary Jane Porter, David Benson
June 14, 2017
The central focus of this volume is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water – governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. The authors present a systematic analysis of case study river systems drawn from ...
Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States, and Indigenous Communities
1st Edition
By Emma S. Norman
February 07, 2017
Winner of the Political Geography Specialty Group's 2015 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award! With almost the entire world’s water basins crossing political borders of some kind, understanding how to cooperate with one’s neighbor is of global relevance. For Indigenous communities, whose ...
Water, Power and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes
1st Edition
By Rutgerd Boelens
December 02, 2016
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the ...