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Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect - Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity (Hardcover)
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Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect - Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation
and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to
carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many
countries for action is limited and may result in a 'boomerang
effect', defined as the unintended negative consequences of such
policies and programmes on local communities and their negative
feedbacks on the state. To avoid this effect, there is a need to
understand the policy drivers, decision-making processes, and
impacts of such action, in order to determine the ways and means of
minimizing negative effects and maximizing mutually beneficial
policy outcomes. This book directly engages the policy debates
surrounding water resources and climate actions through both
theoretical and comparative case studies. It develops the
'boomerang effect' concept and sets it in relation to other
conceptual tools for understanding the mixed outcomes of state-led
climate change action, for example 'backdraft' effect and
'maldevelopment'. It also presents case studies illustrative of the
consequences of ill-considered state-led policy in the water sector
from around the world. These include Africa, China, South Asia,
South America, the Middle East, Turkey and Vietnam, and examples of
groundwater, hydropower development and forest hydrology, where
there are often transboundary consequences of a state's policies
and actions. In this way, the book adds empirical and theoretical
insights to a still developing debate regarding the appropriate
ways and means of combating climate change without undermining
state and social development.
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