Water Crises and Governance (eBook, ePUB)

Reinventing Collaborative Institutions in an Era of Uncertainty
Redaktion: Taylor, Peter Leigh; Sonnenfeld, David A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores that while today's water crises pose serious threats to environments and societies, they also provide opportunities to learn from experience and recraft water governance with coherent visions of more ecologically and socially sustainable futures. It was originally published as a special issue of Society & Natural Resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351578493
• Artikelnr.: 58400172

Autorenporträt

Peter Leigh Taylor is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Colorado State University, USA, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Society & Natural Resources. He has done extensive research and applied work on community-based forest management in Latin America. His current research focuses on environmental flows and agricultural water governance on the Colorado River. David A. Sonnenfeld is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Policy at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Society & Natural Resources. Recent books include the Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change; Food, Globalization and Sustainability; and The Ecological Modernisation Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Water Crises and Institutions: Inventing and Reinventing
Governance in an Era of Uncertainty Part I: Ecological Crises 1. Crises and
Institutional Change: Emergence of Cross-Border Water Governance in Lake
Eyre Basin, Australia 2.Scales of Power in Water Governance in China:
Examples From the Yangtze River Basin 3. Rescaling Knowledge and Governance
and Enrolling the Future in New Zealand: A Co-Production Analysis of
Canterbury's Water Management Reforms to Regulate Diffuse Pollution Part
II: Crises of State Policy and Law 4. The Practice of Water Policy
Governance Networks: An International Comparative Case Study Analysis 5.
Building Capacities for Sustainable Water Governance at the Grassroots:
"Organic Empowerment" and Its Policy Implications in Nicaragua Part III:
Crises of Access 6. Water Crisis and Options for Effective Water Provision
in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Cameroon 7. Women's Crucial Role in
Collective Operation and Maintenance of Drinking Water Infrastructure in
Rural Uganda Part IV: Crises of Power 8. When Policy Hits Practice:
Structure, Agency, and Power in South African Water Governance 9. Standing
Up for Inherent Rights: The Role of Indigenous-Led Activism in Protecting
Sacred Waters and Ways of Life Epilogue 10. Crises, Uncertainty and Water
Governance for Sustainable Futures