Global Challenges in Water Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Challenges in Water Governance write by Jeremy J. Schmidt. This book was released on 2017-07-24. Global Challenges in Water Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address. It is particularly concerned with connecting what are often technical issues in water management with the social and political structures that affect how technical and scientific advice affects decisions. Schmidt and Matthews are careful to avoid the pitfalls of setting up opposing binaries, such as ‘nature versus culture’ or ‘private versus public’, thereby allowing readers to understand how contests over water governance have been shaped over time and why they will continue to be so. Co-written by an academic and a practitioner, Global Challenges in Water Governance combines the dual concerns for both analytical clarity and practical applicability in a way that is particularly valuable both for educators, researchers, decision-makers, and newcomers to the complexities of water use decisions.
Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South write by Leila M. Harris. This book was released on 2015-03-24. Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally—scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked to scarcity and crisis take hold, and become entrenched in policy and practice. The book also investigates ideas of marketization and privatization, increasingly prominent features of water governance throughout the global South, with particular attention to the varied implementation and effects of these governance practices. The final section of the volume analyzes participatory water governance, querying the disconnects between global discourses and local realities, particularly as they intersect with the other themes of interest to the volume. Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates, and policy makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world.
Facing the Challenges of Water Governance
Facing the Challenges of Water Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing the Challenges of Water Governance write by Simon Porcher. This book was released on 2018-11-19. Facing the Challenges of Water Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Access to water is one of the most pressing global issues of the twenty-first century, particularly when set against the background of a rapidly growing global population. This book provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the challenges facing water governance and regulatory choices. The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals set forward an ambitious agenda of providing universal access to good quality water supply and sanitation services within a financially constrained environment: however, the various peculiarities of each country regarding water governance makes it difficult to identify and implement the best practices and benchmarks. Drawing together empirical studies from countries around the world, the editors and contributors combine extensive data to review the individual challenges facing each country, from the supervision of autonomous regulatory bodies to the question of centralization and the influence of local utility companies. This pioneering and practical volume will be of interest and value not only to students and scholars of water governance, but also to practitioners and regulators.
The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities
The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities write by Kees van Leeuwen. This book was released on 2019-08-06. The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities that was published in Water
Water Governance and Collective Action
Water Governance and Collective Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Governance and Collective Action write by Diana Suhardiman. This book was released on 2017-09-08. Water Governance and Collective Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 conception of power, it provides an overview of collective action challenges involved in the sustainable management and development of global freshwater resources through case studies from Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Latin America. The case studies link community-based management of water resources with national decision-making landscapes, transboundary water governance, and global policy discussion on sustainable development, justice and water security. Power and politics are placed at the centre of collective action and water governance discourse, while addressing three core questions: how is collective action shaped by existing power structures and relationships at different scales? What are the kinds of tools and approaches that various actors can take and adopt towards more deliberative processes for collective action? And what are the anticipated outcomes for development processes, the environment and the global resource base of achieving collective action across scales?
