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Routledge Handbook of Water and Development

Edited By Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal Copyright 2024
    378 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    378 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    Water is essential for human life and at the centre of political, economic, and socio-cultural development. This Routledge Handbook of Water and Development offers a systematic, wide-ranging, and state-of-the-art guide to the diverse links between water and development across the globe. It is organized into four parts:

    • Part I explores the most significant theories and approaches to the relationship between water and development
    • Part II consists of carefully selected in-depth case studies, revealing how water utilization and management are deeply intertwined with historical development paths and economic and socio-cultural structures
    • Part III analyses the role of governance in the management of water and development
    • Part IV covers the most urgent themes and issues pertaining to water and development in the contemporary world, ranging from climate change and water stress to agriculture and migration

    The 32 chapters by leading experts are meant to stimulate researchers and students in a wide range of disciplines in the social and natural sciences, including Geography, Environmental Studies, Development Studies, and Political Science. The Handbook will also be of great value to policymakers and practitioners.

    1. Introduction: The Water–Development Nexus

      2. Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain, and Joakim Öjendal

      PART I: THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO WATER AND DEVELOPMENT　

    2. Water as a Tool for Modernity

      3. Joakim Öjendal and Sofie Hellberg

    3. Institutional Approaches to Water for Development　

      4. Larry A. Swatuk

    4. Water and Human Development: Unpacking Scarcity and ‘water crises’

      5. Lyla Mehta

    5. Critical and Post-structural Approaches to Water and Development

      6. Sofie Hellberg

    6. Feminist Contributions to Water and Development Scholarship

      7. Margreet Zwarteveen

    7. Indigenous Peoples, Sustainable Development, and Ontologies of Water

      8. Deborah McGregor, Mahisha Sritharan, and Steven Whitaker

      PART II: CASE STUDIES ON WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

    8. Cambodia

      9. Joakim Öjendal 　

    9. South Africa

      10. Richard Meissner, Stephen Rule, Karen Nortje, and Inga Jacobs-Mata

    10. Peru

      11. Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto

    11. Jordan

      12. Neda Zawahri

    12. The Netherlands

      13. Erik Mostert

      PART III: GOVERNING WATER AND DEVELOPMENT　

    13. Governing Water Services

      14. Klaas Schwartz and Mireia Tutusaus

    14. Water, Neoliberalism, and Commodification

      15. Jessica Budds and Alex Loftus

    15. The Human Right to Water

      16. Peter H. Gleick

    16. Water Resources Management: The Missing Political Link

      17. Kurt Mørck Jensen and Jens Christian Refsgaard

    17. Water, Participation and Development

      18. Jeroen Warner and Richard Meissner

    18. Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters　

      19. Jeroen Warner

    19. Strategies towards SDG 6 Implementation

      20. Anik Bhaduri, Alexandre Teixeira, and Aditya Kaushik

      PART IV: THEMES AND ISSUES　

    20. Water, Food, and Irrigation

      21. Jaime Hoogesteger, Diana Suhardiman, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, and Rutgerd Boelens

    21. Groundwater

      22. Susann Baez Ullberg and Henrik Josefsson

    22. Water Stress and Scarcity

      23. Zafar Adeel

    23. Water, Migration, and Development

      24. Anders Jagerskog and Ashok Swain

    24. Water and Climate Change

      25. Deliang Chen and Hui-Wen Lai

    25. Drought

      26. Elisa Savelli

    26. Water-Energy Nexus

      27. Aiko Endo

    27. Water Inequalities

      28. Maria Rusca

    28. Gendered Intersections in Water and Development

      29. Gaylean Davies, Evelyn Arriagada Oyarzún, and Leila M. Harris　

    29. Urban Water

      30. Susan van de Meene

    30. Water and Health

      31. Jo Geere, Paul R Hunter, and Bruce Lankford

      1. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

        2. Nelson Ekane

      2. Digital Water

      Karen Bakker, Rosemary Knight, Raymond T. Ng, Alan K. Mackworth, and Max Ritts

      　

      Biography

      Sofie Hellberg is associate professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She studies, and teaches on, water politics, environmental, climate governance and theories of power and agency. Hellberg has published in leading journals and with international publishers on topics ranging from Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to research methodology. Her previous work on water appears in international journals including Geoforum, Water Alternatives, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space and Local Environment as well as in a monograph on The Biopolitics of Water (Routledge, 2018).

      Fredrik Söderbaum is a professor of peace and development research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium. Söderbaum has published extensively in leading journals on comparative regionalism, global and regional governance, development research, security studies, and African politics. His most recent books include Contestations of the Liberal International Order: A Populist Script of Regional Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rethinking Regionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Intersecting Interregionalism: Regions, Global Governance and the EU (Springer, 2014).

      Ashok Swain is Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation and Director of the Research School of International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environment and Security, published by SAGE and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. He has written extensively on new security challenges, water-sharing issues, environment, conflict and peace, and democratic development issues. His most recent publications includes, Handbook of Security and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2021) coedited with Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog.

      Joakim Öjendal is professor in Peace and Development Research since 2006 at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has worked on resource politics, peacebuilding, and post-war democratisation for three decades in research, policy and education. He has published widely in leading journals and with international publishers, for instance being the co-editor of Water Security, a Four Volume Set of SAGE Major Works, as well as Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate, published with Earthscan, both in 2014. His most recent publications includes Handbook of Security and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2021) coedited with Ashok Swain and Anders Jägerskog.

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