1st Edition

Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity

Edited By Larry Swatuk, Lars Wirkus Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many countries for action is limited and may result in a ‘boomerang effect’, defined as the unintended negative consequences of such policies and programmes on local communities and their negative feedbacks... Read more

1. Introduction: Theorizing the Boomerang Effect  2. Nothing’s Always Perfect: Lessons from the Three Gorges Dam  3. Four Countries One Aquifer: The Guarani Aquifer and the Duty to Cooperate  4. Shifting Waters: Changing Water Discourses and the Farakka Barrage  5. The Belo Monte Dam: from local protest to national boomerang effect  6. An Assessment of UN-REDD in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam  7. ‘We have the right to do anything we like’: The Boomerang Effects of the Illisu Dam  8. Can Climate Change Challenges Unite a Divided Jordan River Basin   9. A Gendered Analysis of Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) as a Strategy for Strengthening Adaptive Capacity in Ghana’s Tolon District  10. Unintended Consequences of Dams and Water Security: An Insight into Women’s Vulnerability and the Spread of Malaria in Ethiopia

Biography

Larry A. Swatuk is a Professor in the School of Environment Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada and Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.



Lars Wirkus is a Researcher and Head of Section, Data and GIS at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Germany.