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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.
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.
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