Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
About the Book Series
Most of the world’s water problems, and their solutions, are directly related to policies and governance, both specific to water and in general. Two of the world’s leading journals in this area, the International Journal of Water Resources Development (sponsored by the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico) and Water International (the official journal of the International Water Resources Association), contribute to this special issues series, aimed at disseminating new knowledge on the policy and governance of water resources to a very broad and diverse readership all over the world. The series should be of direct interest to all policy makers, professionals and lay readers concerned with obtaining the latest perspectives on addressing the world’s many water issues.
Tony Allan: An Intellectual Journey
1st Edition
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By David Dent, Martin Keulertz, Michael Gilmont
September 26, 2025
This book follows Tony Allan’s journey through the maze of water management and global awareness of the risks of mismanagement, tracing the trajectory of the hydraulic mission from a time of infinite possibilities—fiat panis and piped water—to risk aversion, loss of confidence and political will, ...
Public Banks, Public Water: Exploring the Links in Europe
1st Edition
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By Thomas Marois, David A. McDonald
October 09, 2024
This book explores the potential for public banks to help finance the expansion, democratization, and sustainability of public water services in Europe, with implications for public water financing elsewhere in the world. Financing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 for water and sanitation ...
Smart Water Management: Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name?
1st Edition
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By Henning Bjornlund, Stephanie Kuisma, James E. Nickum, Raya Marina Stephan
October 09, 2024
This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management (SWM) approach. Smart Water Management has increasingly been promoted to manage water and wastewater more efficiently and cost effectively by industries and utilities in urban contexts at regional...
Sustainable Groundwater Development for Improved Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
1st Edition
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By Paul Pavelic, Karen G. Villholth, Shilp Verma
October 09, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the benefits and challenges of intensifying groundwater irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for improving smallholder agrarian livelihoods. Only about 3% of the groundwater resources of Sub-Saharan Africa are used for irrigated agriculture despite ...
Groundwater: Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Knowledge
1st Edition
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By Raya Marina Stephan, James E. Nickum, Philippus Wester
August 26, 2024
Groundwater is invisible, but its impact is visible everywhere. Everything around us relies on groundwater, our drinking water and sanitation, our food supply and our natural environment. Yet because it is invisible, information, management and governance of groundwater is often poor and inadequate...
Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance
1st Edition
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By James E. Nickum, Raya Marina Stephan, Henning Bjornlund
August 26, 2024
This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 on Water and Sanitation emphasizes the centrality of ...
Source-to-Sea Management
1st Edition
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By Josh Weinberg, Fang Qinhua, Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa, Greg Leslie, James E. Nickum
January 29, 2024
This book is the first of its kind on the emerging topic of source-to-sea management. It showcases different applications of the concept to improve the environmental health of freshwater, land and coastal and marine systems, drawing upon research performed across Europe, Africa and Asia. Improved ...
Strengthening Cooperation over Transboundary Groundwater Resources
1st Edition
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By Gabriel Eckstein, Alice Aureli
January 29, 2024
Groundwater is humanity’s most vital supply of freshwater. Freshwater resources contained in aquifer systems globally are two orders of magnitude greater than those found in all rivers, lakes, and other surface freshwaters combined. Moreover, approximately one half of the world’s population today ...
A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia
1st Edition
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By Selina Ho
September 25, 2023
A River Flows Through It: A Comparative Study of Transboundary Water Disputes and Cooperation in Asia explores water disputes in Asia and addresses the question of how states sharing a river system can be incentivized to cooperate. Water scarcity is a major environmental, societal, and economic ...
Flood Resilience of Private Properties
1st Edition
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By Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick, Tejo Spit
September 25, 2023
Flood Resilience of Private Properties examines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties. Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone...
Global Water Resources: Festschrift in Honour of Asit K. Biswas
1st Edition
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By Cecilia Tortajada, Eduardo Araral
September 25, 2023
This is a Festschrift in honour of Professor Asit K. Biswas, for his manifold contributions to water resources policy and management and his extensive efforts over six decades to generate, synthetize, apply, and disseminate knowledge at national and global levels. Global Water Resources: ...
Putting Water Security to Work: Addressing Global Sustainable Development Challenges
1st Edition
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By Chad Staddon, Christopher A. Scott
September 25, 2023
Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water. This reframing has offered benefits (including clear recognition of the link between humans, the environment and the right to water) and also posed challenges (the tendency in ...