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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management


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This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to water resource management, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).

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Water Poverty and Justice in the Global South Law, Human Rights and Community Action for Water Security

Water Poverty and Justice in the Global South: Law, Human Rights and Community Action for Water Security

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Nathan John Cooper
April 01, 2024

Delivering sustainable access to sufficient, safe water represents an urgent and profound global challenge in the face of increasing demand, resource overexploitation, and climate change contributing to unpredictable rainfall, salination and desertification. Much of the effort to reduce water ...

Flood Risk and Community Resilience An Interdisciplinary Approach

Flood Risk and Community Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Approach

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Lindsey Jo McEwen
February 14, 2024

This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage the associated risks. Flooding is an increasingly significant environmental hazard which inflicts major costs to the economies and livelihoods of ...

Desalination and Water Security

Desalination and Water Security

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Chris Anastasi
January 31, 2024

This book provides a holistic view of desalination, highlighting the important role this technology can play in providing safe access to water across the globe.   Desalination is to the water industry what renewables are to the electricity sector, however the former is being deployed in a quiet ...

Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation

Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Jenniver Sehring, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Margreet Zwarteveen
January 29, 2024

This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners’ accounts, and theoretical reflections. Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two highly masculinised fields: diplomacy and water ...

The Role of Law in Transboundary River Basin Disputes Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement

The Role of Law in Transboundary River Basin Disputes: Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Chukwuebuka Edum
December 22, 2023

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins. When states fail to resolve disputes over shared water resources, many cast such failures on inadequate or ineffective legal rules. With this view in mind, this book examines the role that ...

New Perspectives on Transboundary Water Governance Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Case Studies

New Perspectives on Transboundary Water Governance: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Global Case Studies

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Luis Paulo Batista da Silva, Wagner Costa Ribeiro, Isabella Battistello Espíndola
December 18, 2023

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches. Excessive consumption and degradation of natural resources can either heighten the risks of conflicts or encourage cooperation within and among countries...

Defining Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation

Defining Effective Transboundary Water Cooperation

1st Edition

By Melissa McCracken
September 25, 2023

This book establishes a framework for defining transboundary water cooperation and a methodology for evaluating its effectiveness, which will contribute to more effective and therefore successful cooperation processes. With the increasing focus on transboundary cooperation as a part of the ...

River Basins and International Relations Cooperation, Conflict and Sub-Regional Approaches

River Basins and International Relations: Cooperation, Conflict and Sub-Regional Approaches

1st Edition

Edited By Christian Ploberger
June 08, 2023

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic of cooperation among the involved countries. The volume applies the concept of regional cooperation to international river basins to highlight their ...

Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development

Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in Morocco: Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development

1st Edition

By Sandrine Simon
May 31, 2023

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribution of Islam and the mixed influences of Greek ...

Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance Public-Private Partnerships in Mexico and the US

Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance: Public-Private Partnerships in Mexico and the US

1st Edition

By Joyce Valdovinos
May 31, 2023

This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.S. The local nature of water services often hides the global developments behind the rise of ...

Water Scarcity and Conflict in African River Basins The Hydropolitical Landscape

Water Scarcity and Conflict in African River Basins: The Hydropolitical Landscape

1st Edition

By Mahlakeng Khosi Mahlakeng
March 31, 2023

The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins which, for much of the past century, have been affected by water scarcity. River and lake basins can become a source of tension and conflict due to a complicated mix of ...

Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters The Law of International Watercourses

Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses

1st Edition

By David J. Devlaeminck
January 09, 2023

Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of international watercourses with a particular focus on China. As a legal principle, reciprocity plays a strong ...

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