Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity

Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle
Herausgeber: Boelens, Rutgerd; Hoogesteger, Jaime; Crow, Ben

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Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together 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. The articles in this book were first published in Water International.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 173mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780367207526
• ISBN-10: 0367207524
• Artikelnr.: 57004813

Autorenporträt

Rutgerd Boelens is a Professor of Political Ecology of Water at CEDLA, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Ben Crow is a Professor of Sociology in the Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Jaime Hoogesteger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Flora Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Provost of College Nine and College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Erik Swyngedouw is a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK. Jeroen Vos is an Assistant Professor of Water Governance in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: interweaving water struggles, institutions, and the making
of territory Part I: Theories of the Hydrosocial and Water Equity 2.
Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual
building blocks for research and action 3. Hydrosocial territories: a
political ecology perspective 4. What kind of governance for what kind of
equity? Towards a theorization of justice in water governance 5. What is
water equity? The unfortunate consequences of a global focus on 'drinking
water' Part II: Water Governance 6. PES hydro-social territories:
deterritorialization and repatterning of water control arenas in the Andean
highlands 7. Losing the watershed focus: a look at complex
community-managed irrigation systems in Bolivia 8. Examining the emerging
role of groundwater in water inequity in India 9. The colonial roots of
inequality: access to water in urban East Africa 10. Popular participation,
equity, and co-production of water and sanitation services in Caracas,
Venezuela 11. Creating equitable water institutions on disputed land: a
Honduran case study 12. Democratizing discourses: conceptions of ownership,
autonomy and 'the state' in Nicaragua's rural water governance 13.
Adjudicating hydrosocial territory in New Mexico Part III: Hydrosocial
Struggles 14. Downspout politics, upstream conflict: formalizing rainwater
harvesting in the United States 15. Disputes over territorial boundaries
and diverging valuation languages: the Santurban hydro-social highlands
territory in Colombia 16. Diverting realities: how framing, values and
water management are interwoven in the Albufera de Valencia wetland in
Spain 17. Disputes over land and water rights in gold mining: the case of
Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico 18. Territorial pluralism: water users'
multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador's highlands 19.
Amazonian Hydrosociality: The Politics of Water Projects among the Waorani
of Ecuador 20. Water scarcity and the exclusionary city: the struggle for
water justice in Lima, Peru 21. Inclusive recognition politics and the
struggle over 'hydro-social territories' in two Bolivian highland
communities 22. Virtual water trade and the contestation of hydro-social
territories 23. From Spain's hydro-deadlock to the desalination fix 24.
Santa Cruz Declaration on the Global Water Crisis 25. Conclusion