The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy
Published on 29. March 2018
Book
Hardback
712 pages
978-0-19-933508-4 (ISBN)
Description
Water is a basic human need and a scarce commodity with increasing value to farmers, industries, and cities in an urbanizing world. It is unpredictable in supply and quality, difficult to contain or direct, and notoriously difficult to manage well. Several trends -- climate change, the endurance of widespread global water poverty, intensifying competition among rival uses and users, and the vulnerability of critical freshwater ecosystems -- combine to intensify the challenges of governing water wisely, fairly, and efficiently. The twenty-seven chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy address such issues over the course of seven thematic sections. These themes reflect familiar frameworks in the water policy world, including water, poverty, and health; water and nature; and water equity and justice. Other sections look at emergent and contentious policy arenas, including the water/energy/food nexus and management of uncertainty in water supply, or connect well-established strands in new ways, including sections on water tools (water price and value, supply and demand, privatization, corporate responsibility) and issues surrounding transboundary waters. This volume conceives of water as a global issue, and gathers a diverse group of leading scholars of water politics and policy.
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English
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New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
1383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-933508-4 (9780199335084)
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Persons
Ken Conca is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Governing Water and Confronting Consumption.
Erika Weinthal is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She is the author or editor of three books, including State Making and Environmental Cooperation.
Erika Weinthal is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She is the author or editor of three books, including State Making and Environmental Cooperation.
Content
Preface
List of Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1. The Political Dimensions of Water
Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal
Part 2: Poverty, Rights, and Ethics
2. Water and Poverty: Pathways of Escape and Descent
Ben Crow and Brent M. Swallow
3. Knowing Equity When We See It: Water Equity in Contemporary Global Contexts
Margaret Wilder and Helen Ingram
4. Gender and Water
Barbara van Koppen
5. Monitoring the Progressive Realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis to Enhance Human Rights Accountability
Benjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Jamie Bartram, and Catarina de Albuquerque
6. Indigenous Peoples and Water Justice in a Globalizing World
Sue Jackson
7. Re-Imagined Communities: A New Ethical Approach to Water Policy
Veronica Strang
Part 3: Food, Energy, and Water
8. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Arid Regions: The Politics of Problemsheds
Martin Keulertz, Jeannie Sowers, Eckart Woertz, and Rabi Mohtar
9. The Nexus of Energy and Water Quality
Erika Weinthal, Avner Vengosh, and Kate Neville
10. What is Food-water and Why Do We not Account for It?
Martin Keulertz and Tony Allan
11. Unintended Water Allocation: Gaining Share from Indirect Action and Inaction
Virginia Hooper and Bruce Lankford
Part 4: Water and the Politics of Scale
12. Why Scale Matters: Borderless Water and Bordered Thinking
Alice Cohen
13. Local Water Politics
Sara Hughes and Megan Mullin
14. Rethinking Urban Water (In)formality
Malini Ranganathan
Part 5: Law, Economics, and Water Management
15. Innovation and Trends in Water Law
Philippe Cullet
16. The Economics of Water
Jeffrey M. Peterson and Nathan Hendricks
17. The Political Economy of Water Markets: Property Rights and Path Dependency in Rivers under Pressure
Dustin Garrick and Jesper Svensson
18. The Business of Water
Karen Bakker
19. China's Water Pricing Policies
Zhong Ma, Dunhu Chang, and Fang Zhou
Part 6: The Politics of Transboundary Waters
20. Managing Transboundary Rivers to Avert Conflict and Facilitate Cooperation
Neda Zawahri
21. Transboundary Unbound: Redefining Water Conflict and Cooperation for Contemporary Challenges that Extend Beyond Watersheds, Regions, and Water
Jacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Julie E. Watson, and Aaron T. Wolf
22. "Something Has to Yield": Climate Change Transforming Transboundary Water Governance (as We Know It)
Joakim OEjendal and Gustav Alden Rudd
23. River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses
Andrea K. Gerlak and Susanne Schmeier
24. The Absence of Water Conflicts in the Developing World: Evidence from Africa
Clionadh Raleigh
Part 7: The Politics of Water Knowledge
25. Adaptive Governance and Integrated Water Resources Management
Mark Lubell and Carolina Balazs
26. Transfer, Diffusion, Adaptation, and Translation of Water Policy Models
Farhad Mukhtarov and Katherine A. Daniell
27. Climate Information and Water Management: Building Adaptive Capacity or Business as Usual?
Maria Carmen Lemos and Christine Kirchhoff
Index
List of Contributors
Part 1: Introduction
1. The Political Dimensions of Water
Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal
Part 2: Poverty, Rights, and Ethics
2. Water and Poverty: Pathways of Escape and Descent
Ben Crow and Brent M. Swallow
3. Knowing Equity When We See It: Water Equity in Contemporary Global Contexts
Margaret Wilder and Helen Ingram
4. Gender and Water
Barbara van Koppen
5. Monitoring the Progressive Realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis to Enhance Human Rights Accountability
Benjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Jamie Bartram, and Catarina de Albuquerque
6. Indigenous Peoples and Water Justice in a Globalizing World
Sue Jackson
7. Re-Imagined Communities: A New Ethical Approach to Water Policy
Veronica Strang
Part 3: Food, Energy, and Water
8. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Arid Regions: The Politics of Problemsheds
Martin Keulertz, Jeannie Sowers, Eckart Woertz, and Rabi Mohtar
9. The Nexus of Energy and Water Quality
Erika Weinthal, Avner Vengosh, and Kate Neville
10. What is Food-water and Why Do We not Account for It?
Martin Keulertz and Tony Allan
11. Unintended Water Allocation: Gaining Share from Indirect Action and Inaction
Virginia Hooper and Bruce Lankford
Part 4: Water and the Politics of Scale
12. Why Scale Matters: Borderless Water and Bordered Thinking
Alice Cohen
13. Local Water Politics
Sara Hughes and Megan Mullin
14. Rethinking Urban Water (In)formality
Malini Ranganathan
Part 5: Law, Economics, and Water Management
15. Innovation and Trends in Water Law
Philippe Cullet
16. The Economics of Water
Jeffrey M. Peterson and Nathan Hendricks
17. The Political Economy of Water Markets: Property Rights and Path Dependency in Rivers under Pressure
Dustin Garrick and Jesper Svensson
18. The Business of Water
Karen Bakker
19. China's Water Pricing Policies
Zhong Ma, Dunhu Chang, and Fang Zhou
Part 6: The Politics of Transboundary Waters
20. Managing Transboundary Rivers to Avert Conflict and Facilitate Cooperation
Neda Zawahri
21. Transboundary Unbound: Redefining Water Conflict and Cooperation for Contemporary Challenges that Extend Beyond Watersheds, Regions, and Water
Jacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Julie E. Watson, and Aaron T. Wolf
22. "Something Has to Yield": Climate Change Transforming Transboundary Water Governance (as We Know It)
Joakim OEjendal and Gustav Alden Rudd
23. River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses
Andrea K. Gerlak and Susanne Schmeier
24. The Absence of Water Conflicts in the Developing World: Evidence from Africa
Clionadh Raleigh
Part 7: The Politics of Water Knowledge
25. Adaptive Governance and Integrated Water Resources Management
Mark Lubell and Carolina Balazs
26. Transfer, Diffusion, Adaptation, and Translation of Water Policy Models
Farhad Mukhtarov and Katherine A. Daniell
27. Climate Information and Water Management: Building Adaptive Capacity or Business as Usual?
Maria Carmen Lemos and Christine Kirchhoff
Index