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Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty (Hardcover)
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Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty (Hardcover)
Series: IHE Delft Lecture Note Series
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As the American Southwest faces its deepest drought in history,
this book explores the provocative notion ofwater bankruptcy with a
view towards emphasizing the diversity and complexity of water
issues in this region. It bridges between the narratives of growth
and the strategies or policies adopted to pursue competing agendas
and circumvent the inevitable. A window of opportunity provided by
this current long-term drought may be used to induce change by
dealing with threats that derive from imbalances between growth
patterns and available resources, the primary cause of scarcity. A
first of its kind, this book was developed through close
collaboration of a broad range of natural scientists, social
scientists, and resource managers from Europe and United States. It
constitutes a collective elaboration of a transdisciplinary
approach to unveiling the inner workings of how water was fought
for, allocated and used in the American Southwest, with a focus on
Arizona. Specifically, it offers an innovative scientific
perspective that produces a critical diagnostic evaluation of water
management, with a particular view to identifying risks for the
Tucson region that is facing continuous urban sprawl and economic
growth. The book offers a diversity of complementary perspectives,
including a statement of natural resources, biodiversity and their
management, an analysis of water policy and its history, and a
statement of ecosystem services in the context of both local
biodiversity and also the economic activities that sustain economic
growth. Finally, it presents a concerted effort to explore the
interplay between a variety of related scientific disciplines and
frameworks including climatology, hydrology, water management,
ecosystem services, societal metabolism, political economy and
social science.
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