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Author : Veronica Herrera
Release : 2017-02-02
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 323/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Water and Politics by : Veronica Herrera
Download or read book Water and Politics written by Veronica Herrera. This book was released on 2017-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how public water service becomes a political tool in Mexican cities and uncovers the politics of water provision in developing democracies
Author : David L. Feldman
Release : 2017-02-27
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 656/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Water Politics by : David L. Feldman
Download or read book Water Politics written by David L. Feldman. This book was released on 2017-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious. In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and challenges in water politics today. Its ten chapters explore the processes that determine how this unique resource captures our attention, the sources of power that determine how we allocate, use, and protect it, and the purposes that direct decisions over its cost, availability, and access. Drawing on contemporary water controversies from every continent from Flint, Michigan to Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and Beijing the book argues that cooperation and more equitable water management are imperative if the global community is to adequately address water challenges and their associated risks, particularly in the developing world. While alternatives for enhancing water supply, including waste-water re-use, desalination, and conservation abound, without inclusive means of addressing citizens' concerns, their adoption faces severe hurdles that can impede cooperation and generate additional conflicts.
Author : M. Dolatyar
Release : 1999-09-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 877/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Water Politics in the Middle East by : M. Dolatyar
Download or read book Water Politics in the Middle East written by M. Dolatyar. This book was released on 1999-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of water scarcity in the Middle East conclude that there is a significant risk of imminent conflict, even warfare, between states in the region. This book demonstrates that the evidence does not support this doom-laden prediction. Indeed, the authors show that although water scarcity has occasionally played a role in disputes in the Middle East, it has much more often promoted co-existence between adversaries. The reasoning behind this hypothesis is that water is too critical to be put at risk by warfare.
Author : Wendy Nelson Espeland
Release : 1998-09
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Struggle for Water by : Wendy Nelson Espeland
Download or read book The Struggle for Water written by Wendy Nelson Espeland. This book was released on 1998-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the dam would bring valuable water to this arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. The Struggle for Water is not only the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted public works project but also a study of rationality as a cultural, organizational, and political construct. In the 1970s, the three groups most intimately involved in the Orme Dam—younger Bureau of Reclamation employees committed to "rational choice" decision making, older Bureau engineers committed to the dam, and the Yavapai community—all found themselves and their values transformed by their struggles. Wendy Nelson Espeland lays bare the relations between interests and identities that emerged during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice, that asks the crucial question of what it means to be "rational."
Author : Kimberley Kinder
Release : 2015
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 949/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics of Urban Water by : Kimberley Kinder
Download or read book The Politics of Urban Water written by Kimberley Kinder. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around civic concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform. Amsterdam's development serves as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for cities across Europe and North America where rapid new growth creates similar pressures.
