Bernard Barraque

Urban Water Conflicts (eBook, ePUB)

UNESCO-IHP

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Urban Water Conflicts examines interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and analyzing urban water conflicts manifested in different ways and levels. It addresses economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainability, different levels of government in relation to urban water management and includes case studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135998981
• Artikelnr.: 72518445

Autorenporträt

Bernard O. Barraqué is a French civil engineer holding a city planning degree from Harvard University, and a PhD in urban socio-economic issues from Paris University. He started his career as a consultant in urban environment policies, and progressively turned to research and teaching. He now is full time Research Director in the CNRS (French Science Centre), with the rank of professor, in environmental policies, in particular water. He is attached to CIRED, Centre International de Recherches sur l'Environnement et le Développement , which is co-tutored by AgroParisTech, PontsParisTech, Univeristy of Paris-Est and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and associated to the CNRS. Due to his inter-disciplinary profile, he also was the chair of the French National Committee of the UNESCO International Hydrological Program until 2010. He recently co-ordinated a collaborative project on payments for ecosystem services by water utilities to farmers in France and other developed countries (EVEC, acronym for Eau des Villes, Eau des Champs ). He now co-ordinates EAU&3E, a research project on the sustainability of water and sanitation services in large cities in France, in particular with the city of Paris: environmental, economic, social and governance dimensions (see http://eau3e.hypotheses.org). He is member of the editorial boards of Water Policy, Espaces et Sociétés and Water Alternatives .