Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Martin Keulertz, Eckart Woertz

This book discusses key issues concerning water, energy and food in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It provides an interdisciplinary account of current developments in the most water-scarce and conflict-torn region in the world. Key analysts on MENA water, agriculture and energy…

Paperback – 2018-12-31 
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne, Larry Wallace Harrington

This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider…

Hardback – 2018-11-20
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Aziza Akhmouch, Delphine Clavreul, Sarah Hendry, Sharon Megdal, James Nickum, Francisco Nunes-Correia, Andrew Ross

The science–policy interface is critical to the design and implementation of water policies. In theory, scientists provide policy makers with robust facts and data that can help guide decision making, and lessons from the political economy of reforms can push scientific boundaries further to…

Hardback – 2018-10-30
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Anik Bhaduri, Claudia Ringler, Ines Dombrowsky, Rabi Mohtar, Waltina Scheumann

It is beyond doubt that the interconnectedness between food, energy, water security and environmental sustainability exists and is getting amplified with increased globalization. It has been recognized that efforts to address only one part of a systemic problem by neglecting other inherently…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Choon Nam Ong

As water demand has increased globally and resources have become more limited because of physical scarcity, over-exploitation and pollution, it has been necessary to develop more options for water supplies. These options include the production at large scale of high-quality reused water from…

Paperback – 2018-10-18
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Dan Shrubsole, Dan Walters, Barbara Veale, Bruce Mitchell

This volume provides readers with an opportunity to learn from front line water managers of watershed-based agencies across Canada about integrated water management (or integrated water resource management). In common with practice in much of the world, the responsibility for implementing…

Hardback – 2018-07-06
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Philippe Cullet, Raya Marina Stephan

This book undertakes a scholarly assessment of the state of the art of law and policy perspectives on groundwater and climate change at the international, regional and national levels. A particular focus is given to India, which is the largest user of groundwater in the world, and where groundwater…

Hardback – 2018-06-26
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Marcella Nanni, Stefano Burchi, Ariella D’Andrea, Gabriel Eckstein

Legal mechanisms for the management, development and protection of water resources have evolved over the years and have reached unprecedented levels of complexity and sophistication. This phenomenon is largely in response to the global community’s sustainable development agenda, to the challenges…

Hardback – 2018-06-13
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Patricia Wouters, Huiping Chen, James E. Nickum

China and its neighbours face a series of water security issues, in which international law plays a vital role. Paramount to both policymakers and researchers in the field of water law, the current status of transboundary water cooperation schemes and how these operate in China is of global…

Hardback – 2017-11-21
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Christopher Napoli

Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other. This book explores the "energy for water" component of the water–energy nexus. It offers diverse case studies from around the world…

Hardback – 2017-08-08
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by James E. Nickum, David B. Brooks, Anthony Richard Turton, Surina Esterhuyse

The impact of mining is too big to ignore in a world of oversubscribed water. This is true of conventional mining as much as – or even more than – hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The legacy issues of such mining on water have not been fully appreciated, especially the irretrievable effects mining…

Hardback – 2017-06-21
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit K. Biswas

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management. Together with institutions, policies and regulation, it provides basic services to growing populations, especially in developing countries, where much of the growth is taking place. In the Asia-Pacific region, for instance,…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Tejo Spit

A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living. Sustainable governance of land and water is one of the major challenges of our times. Managing retention areas…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, Ben Crow, Jaime Hoogesteger, Flora E. Lu, Erik Swyngedouw, Jeroen Vos

Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of…

Hardback – 2017-06-01
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Francisco González-Gómez, Miguel A. García-Rubio, Jorge Guardiola

Spain is facing an increasingly difficult situation in terms of water stress. This is an issue that is due mostly to poor management practices in all sectors. Large amounts of water have been used for agricultural purposes at very low prices for too long; there is an uncontrolled use of…

Paperback – 2016-08-26
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Kevin Parris

Water data and information are essential to support efforts to understand, manage, allocate, utilize and protect water resources. The linkages between Water Information Systems and needs of decision makers are complex, but can be encapsulated in a Driving Force (Policy Needs) – Monitoring – Data…

Paperback – 2016-08-26
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Francisco González-Gómez, Asit K. Biswas, Miguel A. García-Rubio

This book focuses on participation of the public and private sectors in urban water management and on the role of water pricing. It discusses in-depth topics such as public choices of urban water service management; dynamics of privatization and regulation of water services; adoption of water…

Paperback – 2016-07-12
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit K. Biswas, Avinash Tyagi

To plan successfully and manage the increased uncertainties posed by likely future climate change, knowledge needs to advance much more for the water profession beyond what it is now available. Meeting these challenges does not depend exclusively on advances in climatological-hydrologic models.…

Paperback – 2016-07-12
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Claudia Ringler, Arif Anwar

Pakistan’s water management is at a critical watershed. Water shortages are growing rapidly as a result of growing demand across all water-using sectors. Rapid population growth, from 175 million people in 2010 to an estimated 236 million by 2030 and 280 million by 2050, and international…

Paperback – 2016-07-12
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit K. Biswas

Asian countries are not homogenous. They are in different stages of social and economic development, with cultural conditions and institutional and legal frameworks varying from one country to another. Therefore, how water can be successfully managed differs from one country to another. The book…

Paperback – 2016-07-11
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Asit K. Biswas

Definitive analyses of transboundary water management in Latin America are conspicuous by their absence. The situation is a little better for rivers compared to groundwater resources. Transboundary water management in Latin America has been evolving in a somewhat different manner compared to other…

Paperback – 2016-07-11
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Virpi Stucki, Kai Wegerich, Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman, Olli Varis

Examining the water, development and security linkages in Central Asia can feel a bit like solving a Rubik’s cube. The Rubik’s cube starts to usually find structure and the different pieces find their places when its solver adopts a systematic approach. Still, solving the whole cube takes time and…

Paperback – 2016-04-21
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Mikiyasu Nakayama, Ryo Fujikura

The rapid economic expansion and population growth of developing countries in Asia has led to increasing demands for water and energy. To meet these demands, large dam development projects have been completed, which has inevitably caused involuntary resettlement. In order to support these projects,…

Paperback – 2015-09-10
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM. They draw from an extensive, inclusive and geographically representative range of theoretical propositions and practical examples. These include…

Hardback – 2015-07-29
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Christopher A. Scott, Bernard de Gouvello

The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance – through decentralization and the penetration of global firms in local and regional markets – have been promoted as solutions to increase economic efficiency and achieve universal…

Paperback – 2015-07-23
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada

Asia's 48 countries have an estimated 1.757 billion urban population and 2.4 billion people in rural areas (or approximately 60 per cent of the global population). Divided into central, eastern, southern, south-eastern and western regions, the continent is also extremely heterogeneous in terms of…

Paperback – 2015-04-27
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Rafael Izquierdo

The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress…

Paperback – 2014-06-23
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Myles J. Fisher, Simon E. Cook

Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book…

Paperback – 2012-02-02
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit K. Biswas

Old forms of governance in both public and private sectors are becoming increasingly irrelevant because of rapidly changing conditions. Because of these changes, both governance processes and the scope of the institutions through which power is exercised throughout society may have to undergo a…

Hardback – 2010-11-17
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Xuetao Sun, Robert Speed, Dajun Shen

Chinese water resource managers face a challenge that is both immense and unique. They must balance limited water supplies against the needs of the world’s largest population; demands for rapid economic growth with calls for improved environmental management; and the desire for a market-based…

Hardback – 2009-11-23
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Olli Varis, Asit K. Biswas, Jan Lundqvist

Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental…

Paperback – 2009-10-13
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Asit K. Biswas, Benedito P.F. Braga, Cecilia Tortajada, Marco Palermo

It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been…

Hardback – 2009-05-28
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Asit K. Biswas, Eglal Rached, Cecilia Tortajada

Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than two billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United…

Paperback – 2008-04-29
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Norio Okada

This book is the first major attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, the many issues associated with water and disasters. It is particularly relevant and topical in view of the increasing frequency and intensity of water-triggered disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years,…

Hardback – 2007-12-13
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

Edited by Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada

There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future. However, this concept is neither the cure-all many proponents argue, nor the disaster its opponents forecast. Providing a comprehensive and objective assessment of what does…

Hardback – 2005-06-02
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Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance