1st Edition
Global Water Ethics Towards a global ethics charter
1. Introduction: global water ethics – towards a water ethics charter
Rafael Ziegler and David Groenfeldt
2. A brief history of efforts to articulate global water ethics
Susan Lea Smith
Part 1: Ethics and epistemology
3. What is water ethics and to what end do we study it? Lessons for the water ethics charter
Simon Meisch
4. Beyond general principles: water ethics in a Deweyan perspective
Martin Kowarsch
5. Incorporating ethics into water decision-making
David Groenfeldt
6. Transcending water conflicts: an ethics of water cooperation
Angela Kallhoff
Part 2: Global water ethics, local cases and a diversity of perspectives
7. Safe, just and sufficient space: the planetary boundary for human water use in a more-than-human world
Rafael Ziegler, Dieter Gerten and Petra Döll
8. The relevance of ethical factors in the pursuit of integrated water resources management
Maite Aldaya, Pedro Martínez-Santos and Ramon Llamas
9. A hierarchy of water needs and their implications for allocation mechanisms
Eran Feitelson
10. Reflections on water ethics and the human right to water in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Lucy Rodina
11. An eco-centric water allocation across competing demands in an arid inland river basin of Northwest China
Jie Liu and Xiang Huang
12. Water, virtue ethics and traditional ecological knowledge in Rajasthan: Anupam Mishra and the rediscovery of water traditions
Ricki Levi and Daniel Mishori
Part 3: Water ethics charters and charting water
13. I yá.axch´age? (Can you hear it?) or, marrying the water: a Tlingit and Tagish approach towards an ethical relationship with water
Eleanor Hayman with Colleen James, Mark Wedge and David Katzeek
14. Developing an ecumenical framework for water justice
Susan Lea Smith
15. Developing a global water ethics charter
David Groenfeldt
16. The Berlin Water Charter: water ethics from an activist’s viewpoint
Dorothea Härlin
17. Water ethics and water stewardship: personal reflections
Adrian Sym
Biography
Rafael Ziegler is Head of Research at GETIDOS (Getting things done sustainably), based in Greifswald, Germany. He has worked as a lecturer at McGill University, ECLA and FU Berlin, and as a Deputy Professor of environmental ethics at the University of Greifswald.
David Groenfeldt is Director of the Water-Culture Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. He is the author of Water Ethics: A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis (Routledge, 2013).
"Overall, it was a delight to read and engage this book. It is an important reference text for which specific chapters will teach very well in courses on fresh water values, ethics, and governance...Global Water Ethics is an important contribution to a growing set of ethical and governance reflections on water. There is much here that I recommend, even as there is more to be charted." - Christiana Zenner in Water Alternatives, 2019
"One wonders why the creation of a water ethics charter took such a long time, over four decades after the outset of the environmental ethics movement. It is about time for the general public to realize the seriousness of the ethical aspects of using and managing water resources for future generations. This book will be an addition to the existing literature on water resource management. It is recommended reading for all environmental managers, scientists and policy makers who care about the current and future shortage of water in society." - Govindasamy Agoramoorthy in Environmental Earth Sciences, 2017
