Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined with burgeoning demand, have made socio-political and economic conflicts almost unavoidable. Proposals to address water shortages are usually based on two key assumptions: (1) water is a commodity that can be bought and sold and (2) "states," or other centralized entities, should control access to water. Liquid Relations criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective. Eleven case studies examine laws, distribution, and...
Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined ...
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing ('normal' vs. 'abnormal').
The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks' vigorous efforts to reshape...
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities...
Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and political-geographical interests; as a result, water (in)justice and...
Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance...
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing ( normal vs. abnormal ).
The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks vigorous efforts to reshape these...
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities...
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental ...
