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.
Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy
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By Mara Tignino, Raya Marina Stephan, Renée Martin-Nagle, Owen McIntyre
June 30, 2021
Legal Perspectives on Bridging Science and Policy deals with the interaction of science and policy from a legal perspective.Expert contributors outline the role of law in water management and suggest solutions to make laws flexible and adaptive to changes in scientific knowledge and environmental, ...
Politics and Policies for Water Resources Management in India
1st Edition
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By M. Dinesh Kumar
June 30, 2021
This comprehensive volume explores the interface between politics and policy making in the water management sector of India. The authors discuss the nature of the political discourse on water management in India, and what characterizes this discourse. They also explore how this discourse has ...
Rural–Urban Water Struggles: Urbanizing Hydrosocial Territories and Evolving Connections, Discourses and Identities
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By Lena Hommes, Rutgerd Boelens, Leila M. Harris, Gert Jan Veldwisch
June 30, 2021
Rural–Urban Water Struggles compiles diverse analyses of rural–urban water connections, discourses, identities and struggles evolving in the context of urbanization around the world. Departing from an understanding of urbanization as a process of constant making and remaking of multi-scalar ...
Virtual Water: Implications for Agriculture and Trade
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By Chittaranjan Ray, David McInnes, Matthew Sanderson
June 30, 2021
Virtual Water explores the role of "virtual water" – the water embedded in a product – in ongoing conversations of agriculture, trade and sustainability in an increasingly inter-connected world.A pervasive theme throughout the book is the general lack of knowledge of the use of water in producing ...
Groundwater and Climate Change: Multi-Level Law and Policy Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Philippe Cullet, Raya Marina Stephan
August 14, 2020
This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels. A particular focus is given to India, which is the largest user of groundwater in the world, and where groundwater...
Integrated Water Management in Canada: The Experience of Watershed Agencies
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By Dan Shrubsole, Dan Walters, Barbara Veale, Bruce Mitchell
August 14, 2020
This volume provides readers with an opportunity to learn from front line water managers of watershed-based agencies across Canada about integrated water management (or integrated water resource management). In common with practice in much of the world, the responsibility for implementing ...
Legal Mechanisms for Water Resources in the Third Millennium: Select papers from the IWRA XIV and XV World Water Congresses
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By Marcella Nanni, Stefano Burchi, Ariella D’Andrea, Gabriel Eckstein
August 14, 2020
Legal mechanisms for the management, development and protection of water resources have evolved over the years and have reached unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication. This phenomenon is largely in response to the global community’s sustainable development agenda, to the challenges ...
OECD Principles on Water Governance: From policy standards to practice
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By Aziza Akhmouch, Delphine Clavreul, Sarah Hendry, Sharon Megdal, James Nickum, Francisco Nunes-Correia, Andrew Ross
June 30, 2020
The science–policy interface is critical to the design and implementation of water policies. In theory, scientists provide policy makers with robust facts and data that can help guide decision making, and lessons from the political economy of reforms can push scientific boundaries further to ...
Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods: The Role of Policies and Governance
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By Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne, Larry Harrington
June 30, 2020
This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider ...
Transboundary Water Cooperation: Principles, Practice and Prospects for China and Its Neighbours
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By Patricia Wouters, Huiping Chen, James E. Nickum
December 12, 2019
China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these operate in China is of global ...
Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle
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By Rutgerd Boelens, Ben Crow, Jaime Hoogesteger, Flora E. Lu, Erik Swyngedouw, Jeroen Vos
June 07, 2019
Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of ...
Energy For Water: Regional Case Studies
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By Christopher Napoli
February 14, 2019
Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other. This book explores the "energy for water" component of the water–energy nexus. It offers diverse case studies from around the world ...