The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a synthesis of approaches is needed in future. The book also addresses political, economic and legal dimensions of water management. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa, this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate physical and social technologies that can help to sustainably provide access to clean water for all.…mehr
The Hydropolitics of Dams charts the troubled waters of 'heavy engineering' approaches to ecosystem management, exploring the history, benefits and problems of large dams. It then explores diverse ecosystem-based approaches to management of human interactions with the water cycle, concluding that a synthesis of approaches is needed in future. The book also addresses political, economic and legal dimensions of water management. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa, this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate physical and social technologies that can help to sustainably provide access to clean water for all.
Dr Mark Everard's work in all four sectors of society - private, public, academic and voluntary - has taken him across five continents to undertake applied research, policy development and capacity-building relating to the ways in which people connect with ecosystems. The author of 14 other books, including Common Ground (Zed Books, 2011) and The Hydropolitics of Dams (Zed Books, 2013), over 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and over 250 technical magazine articles, Mark is also a communicator on sustainability and wider environmental and resource-use matters on TV and radio. He has served on numerous government advisory and expert groups in the UK, as well as advising other governments and multinational corporations on sustainability matters. His speciality is systemic thinking, particularly around connections between the water environment and other environmental media and the human activities that depend on and influence them. Mark's work includes environmental ethics and economics as a means to bring our intimate interdependencies with ecosystems into the mainstream of public awareness and government thinking.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Development, water and dams 1. Replumbing the modern world 2. Temples of the modern world 3. Stemming the flow 4. A changing mindset 5. The World Commission on Dams and beyond 6. The state of play with dams 7. Dams and ecosystem services 8. A new agenda for dams Part II: Water in the postmodern world 9. Water in the postmodern world 10. Managing water at landscape scale 11. Catchment production and storage 12. Water flows through society 13. Markets for water services 14. Nature's water infrastructure Part III: Rethinking water and people 15. Living within the water cycle 16. Governance of water systems 17. Towards a new hydropolitics Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing
Introduction Part I: Development, water and dams 1. Replumbing the modern world 2. Temples of the modern world 3. Stemming the flow 4. A changing mindset 5. The World Commission on Dams and beyond 6. The state of play with dams 7. Dams and ecosystem services 8. A new agenda for dams Part II: Water in the postmodern world 9. Water in the postmodern world 10. Managing water at landscape scale 11. Catchment production and storage 12. Water flows through society 13. Markets for water services 14. Nature's water infrastructure Part III: Rethinking water and people 15. Living within the water cycle 16. Governance of water systems 17. Towards a new hydropolitics Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing
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