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Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation - Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paperback)
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Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation - Interdisciplinary Approaches (Paperback)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially
transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary
water policy design. A more open policy conversation about water
than exists at present is proposed - one that provides a space for
the role of the imagination and is inclusive - of the arts and
humanities, relevant stakeholders, including landholders and
Indigenous peoples, as well as science, law and economics. Written
for a wide audience, including practitioners and professional
readers, as well as scholars and students, the book demonstrates
the value of multiple disciplines, voices, perspectives, knowledges
and different ways of relating to water. It provides a fresh and
timely response to the urgent need for water policy that works to
achieve sustainability, and may be better able to resolve complex
environmental, social and cultural water issues. Utilising a broad
range of evidentiary sources and case studies from Australia, New
Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, the authors of this edited
collection demonstrate how new ways of thinking and imagining water
are not only possible but already practised, and growing in
saliency and impact. The current dominance of narrower ways of
conceptualising our relationship with water is critiqued, including
market valuation and water privatisation, and more innovative
alternatives are described, including those that recognise the
importance of place-based stories and narratives, adopt traditional
ecological knowledge and relational water appreciations, and apply
cutting-edge behavioural and ecological systems science. The book
highlights how innovative approaches drawing on a wide range of
views may counter prevailing policy myopia, enable reflexive
governance and transform water policy towards addressing water
security questions and the broader challenges posed by the
Anthropocene and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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