Earthscan Water Text
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to the study of water and water resources, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes main and supplementary textbooks, and is aimed at the growing number of students taking advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on water-related topics. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Best Practices in Global Water Policy: Revisiting Water Mantras
1st Edition
Edited
By François Molle, Sylvain Barone
June 18, 2026
This volume challenges the assumption that dominant water-management solutions are universally effective, neutral and scientifically validated. Global water policy tends to frame certain concepts and tools – such as river basin organisations, water pricing, drip irrigation, nature-based solutions ...
Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations
1st Edition
By Cristy Clark
June 30, 2025
This book deepens our understanding of humanity’s diverse relationships with water and the law, providing a critical assessment of this relationship, and charting the course towards a more sustainable and just water future. By using legal geography, this book pays particular attention to the ...
Digital Water: Enabling a More Resilient, Secure and Equitable Water Future
1st Edition
By William Sarni
December 27, 2021
This book shows how digital technologies are transforming how we locate, manage, treat, distribute, and use water. Water resources are under stress from over-allocation, increased demand, pollution, climate change, and outdated public policies. Historical approaches to delivering water for human ...
Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water
1st Edition
Edited
By Farhana Sultana, Alex Loftus
September 18, 2019
Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to shed critical light on the pathways, pitfalls, prospects, and constraints that exist in achieving global goals, as well as...
The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society
2nd Edition
By Arjen Y. Hoekstra
July 15, 2019
Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels. Since the publication of the first edition, the question of how to reduce our water footprint has become even more urgent. Freshwater scarcity ...
Water Ethics: A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis
2nd Edition
By David Groenfeldt
March 06, 2019
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions. The book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are ...
Flood Risk Management: Global Case Studies of Governance, Policy and Communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell, Matilda Becker
February 04, 2019
Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity of global flood risk management (FRM), this volume covers a range of topics including planning and policy, risk governance and ...
Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics: Water, Sanitation and Disease Control
3rd Edition
By Sandy Cairncross, Sir Richard Feachem
November 05, 2018
This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the effective measures that may be used against them. The infections...
Equality in Water and Sanitation Services
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Cumming, Tom Slaymaker
July 19, 2018
There is growing acceptance that the progress delivered under the Millennium Development Goal target for drinking water and sanitation has been inequitable. As a result, the progressive reduction of inequalities is now an explicit focus of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets, adopted in ...
Water Stewardship and Business Value: Creating Abundance from Scarcity
1st Edition
By William Sarni, David Grant
March 05, 2018
The tangible value of increased water efficiency, reuse and recycling and improved social license to operate are moving more companies to adopt water stewardship strategies. This book frames an expanded strategy for water stewardship and business value creation, including brand value, ...
The International Law of Transboundary Groundwater Resources
1st Edition
By Gabriel Eckstein
September 18, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive review of the state of international law as it applies to transboundary groundwater resources and aquifers. The main focus is on recent developments and the emerging international law for transboundary aquifers as reflected in the practice of states and the work ...
Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Diana Suhardiman, Alan Nicol, Everisto Mapedza
September 18, 2017
Collective Action is now recognized as central to addressing the water governance challenge of delivering sustainable development and global environmental benefits. This book examines concepts and practices of collective action that have emerged in recent decades globally. Building on a Foucauldian...