Managing Water and Water Users offers an answer to the question of why Kerala remains a water-scarce region despite having a regular and adequate rainfall. The papers presented in this volume deal with the multifarious aspects of conservation, management and sharing of water resources.

This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of scientists, with specific reference to South Africa in both the past and the present.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the history and current state of South African sociology. Providing a holistic picture of the subject both as it is taught in universities and as a field of research, it reveals the trajectories of a discipline in a challenging socio-political context. With the support of historical and scientometric data, it demonstrates how the changing political situation, from colonialism to apartheid to democracy, has influenced the nature, direction and foci of sociological research in the country. The author shows how, during the apartheid era, sociology...

This book is an original study on the development of media technologies, communications and social networks in South Africa.