Routledge Handbook of Water and Development

1. Introduction: The Water–Development Nexus

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

Joakim Öjendal and Sofie Hellberg

3. Institutional Approaches to Water for Development　

Larry A. Swatuk

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

Lyla Mehta

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

Sofie Hellberg

6. Feminist Contributions to Water and Development Scholarship

Margreet Zwarteveen

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

Deborah McGregor, Mahisha Sritharan, and Steven Whitaker

PART II: CASE STUDIES ON WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

8. Cambodia

Joakim Öjendal 　

9. South Africa

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

10. Peru

Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto

11. Jordan

Neda Zawahri

12. The Netherlands

Erik Mostert

PART III: GOVERNING WATER AND DEVELOPMENT　

13. Governing Water Services

Klaas Schwartz and Mireia Tutusaus

14. Water, Neoliberalism, and Commodification

Jessica Budds and Alex Loftus

15. The Human Right to Water

Peter H. Gleick

16. Water Resources Management: The Missing Political Link

Kurt Mørck Jensen and Jens Christian Refsgaard

17. Water, Participation and Development

Jeroen Warner and Richard Meissner

18. Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters　

Jeroen Warner

19. Strategies towards SDG 6 Implementation

Anik Bhaduri, Alexandre Teixeira, and Aditya Kaushik

PART IV: THEMES AND ISSUES　

20. Water, Food, and Irrigation

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

21. Groundwater

Susann Baez Ullberg and Henrik Josefsson

22. Water Stress and Scarcity

Zafar Adeel

23. Water, Migration, and Development

Anders Jagerskog and Ashok Swain

24. Water and Climate Change

Deliang Chen and Hui-Wen Lai

25. Drought

Elisa Savelli

26. Water-Energy Nexus

Aiko Endo

27. Water Inequalities

Maria Rusca

28. Gendered Intersections in Water and Development

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

29. Urban Water

Susan van de Meene

30. Water and Health

Jo Geere, Paul R Hunter, and Bruce Lankford

31. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Nelson Ekane

32. 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.