Politics of Water

Description

This new title presents timely information covering the global politics of water. With the current threat of climate change and the increasing demand on water resources, this title gives an invaluable insight into an increasingly politicized topic. Includes:

• in-depth essays on major topics in water politics
• an A-Z glossary of key terms, issues, organizations, etc. in water politics
• a section of information on selected major river basins of the world, including maps where appropriate
• maps detailing water consumption and resources
• statistical tables.

The Politics of Water provides an invaluable guide to politics surrounding the availability and provision of water on a world-wide scale and is the only guide to deal with the issues of water in politics in such detail.

It is an invaluable reference source for anyone who is interested in, or studying the politics of water, or indeed climate change.

Contents

Is water politics? Towards international water relations

JEROEN WARNER AND KAI WEGERICH

The politics of sharing water: International law, sovereignty and

transboundary rivers and aquifers

STEPHEN C. MCCAFFREY AND KATE J. NEVILLE

The multi-level governance of water and state-building processes: A

longue durée perspective

JEREMY ALLOUCHE

Hydrosolidarity as water security in the Okavango River Basin

PÅL ARNE DAVIDSEN

Transboundary water interaction: Reconsidering conflict and

co-operation

MARK ZEITOUN AND NAHO MIRUMACHI

Hydro-hegemonic politics: A crossroads on the Euphrates-Tigris?

JEROEN WARNER

The politics of water and mining in South Africa

ANTHONY TURTON

Water rights politics

RUTGERD BOELENS

The politics of gender in water and the gender of water politics

MARGREET Z. ZWARTEVEEN

Rural poverty reduction: What’s irrigation got to do with it?

KAI WEGERICH

A–Z GLOSSARY

JENS TREFFNER, VINCENT MIOC AND KAI WEGERICH

INTERNATIONAL RIVER BASINS

JENS TREFFNER, VINCENT MIOC AND KAI WEGERICH

Aral Sea (Amu Darya and Syr Darya)

Colorado-Rio Grande-Tijuana

Danube

Euphrates-Tigris

Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna basins

Indus

Jordan basin

La Plata

Mekong

Murray-Darling

Nile basin

Okavango

Rhine

Related Subjects

1. General Reference
2. Environmental Politics
3. Environmental Studies
4. Environmental Policy
5. Politics & International Relations

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