[PDF] The Global Water Regime eBook

Author : Stefan Kuks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402024832

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All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate change. The European Union adopted a Water Framework Directive to improve the sustainability of water management in its member states. Water management should be coordinated at the level of river basins as a whole. Interests of various user groups should be better represented. River basin visions should take into account the impact of all human activities on the status of the resource. Water legislation needs streamlining and more focus on its implementation. The European Union advocates regulating water prices by charging the costs of water services on the basis of full cost recovery and the polluter pays principle. This book examines the development of water management in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. It is based on the European research project EUWARENESS. The authors apply a theoretical framework for the analysis of institutional regimes, water governance and property rights. The evolution of national water resource regimes is described over a period of almost 200 years (1800-2000). The long-term perspective enables the reader to see the conditions under which regime transformation and paradigm change are made possible. The book also includes a critical analysis of policy making by the European Union, and a comparative review and analysis of regime development in the six countries involved. This book is followed by another volume published with Kluwer Academic Publishers on "Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management", edited by Hans Bressers and Stefan Kuks.

Author : Anik Bhaduri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2016-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319377360

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The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, relates institutional and technological innovations and identifies in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management. Until the industrial revolution, human beings and their activities played an insignificant role influencing the dynamics of the Earth system, the sum of our planet‘s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Today, humankind even exceeds nature in terms of changing the biosphere and affecting all other facets of Earth system functioning. A growing number of scientists argue that humanity has entered a new geological epoch that needs a corresponding name: the Anthropocene. Human activities impact the global water system as part of the Earth system and change the way water moves around the globe like never before. Thus, managing freshwater use wisely in the planetary water cycle has become a key challenge to reach global environmental sustainability.

Author : Anik Bhaduri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319075489

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The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows and land use change. It helps to build links between science and policy and practice in the area of water resources management and governance, relates institutional and technological innovations and identifies in which ways research can assist policy and practice in the field of sustainable freshwater management. Until the industrial revolution, human beings and their activities played an insignificant role influencing the dynamics of the Earth system, the sum of our planet‘s interacting physical, chemical, and biological processes. Today, humankind even exceeds nature in terms of changing the biosphere and affecting all other facets of Earth system functioning. A growing number of scientists argue that humanity has entered a new geological epoch that needs a corresponding name: the Anthropocene. Human activities impact the global water system as part of the Earth system and change the way water moves around the globe like never before. Thus, managing freshwater use wisely in the planetary water cycle has become a key challenge to reach global environmental sustainability.

Author : Christian Bréthaut
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1137600861

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This edited volume provides a critical discussion of particular trends that are widely recognised to influence water management by comparing them with what is actually happening in the field. Among others, these trends include water security, adaptive or integrative management, and the water-energy-food nexus, which are often presented as essential means to reaching more sustainable and resilient water use. However, the extent to which these trends have managed to structure concrete practices in water management remains uncertain. Informed by empirically grounded research, each chapter of this work engages with a particular approach, concept or theory. Together, they provide a nuanced picture of trends in water management that require universal remedies and global norms.

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Page : 690 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2012
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This work explores the global governance of water. Water is usually delivered at the local level and is not widely traded around the world. However, in the last two decades a set of powerful institutions with a global reach (which include multinational water companies and international financial institutions) have begun to promote a new paradigm in water management based on the principle that water should be treated as an economic good. I refer to the collection of actors, ideas, and ways through which these ideas are generated and disseminated as the 'global water regime.' The main goal of this dissertation is to shed light on the origins, operation, and consequences of this regime. In order to do so, this dissertation explores the historical origins of the view of water as an economic good as well as of the global water regime itself, to whose form and mode of operation I pay specific attention. I also study the implications of the regime for the access to water of vulnerable populations through the analysis of urban water management in the cases of South Africa and Bolivia. I find that the actors of the global water regime have pushed for a very specific understanding of water as an economic good that translates this principle into the policies of privatization and full cost recovery. These have been opposed by the new progressive governments that took office in South Africa and Bolivia in the last two decades, yet I argue that, despite their rhetoric, these governments have adopted specific measures that are derived from and consistent with the view of water as an economic good. I use the concept of 'ring-fencing' to make the case that, beyond its specific policies, the management of water as an economic good is underpinned by a certain logic of operation that has been internalized even by radical actors who oppose the global water regime. The outcome has been a deterioration of water access for vulnerable groups which has generated strong social mobilization and the development of an alternative view around the concept of water as a human right.

Author : Jeremy J. Schmidt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319615033

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This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address. It is particularly concerned with connecting what are often technical issues in water management with the social and political structures that affect how technical and scientific advice affects decisions. Schmidt and Matthews are careful to avoid the pitfalls of setting up opposing binaries, such as ‘nature versus culture’ or ‘private versus public’, thereby allowing readers to understand how contests over water governance have been shaped over time and why they will continue to be so. Co-written by an academic and a practitioner, Global Challenges in Water Governance combines the dual concerns for both analytical clarity and practical applicability in a way that is particularly valuable both for educators, researchers, decision-makers, and newcomers to the complexities of water use decisions.

Author : Stefan Kuks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402024843

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All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate change. The European Union adopted a Water Framework Directive to improve the sustainability of water management in its member states. Water management should be coordinated at the level of river basins as a whole. Interests of various user groups should be better represented. River basin visions should take into account the impact of all human activities on the status of the resource. Water legislation needs streamlining and more focus on its implementation. The European Union advocates regulating water prices by charging the costs of water services on the basis of full cost recovery and the polluter pays principle. This book examines the development of water management in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. It is based on the European research project EUWARENESS. The authors apply a theoretical framework for the analysis of institutional regimes, water governance and property rights. The evolution of national water resource regimes is described over a period of almost 200 years (1800-2000). The long-term perspective enables the reader to see the conditions under which regime transformation and paradigm change are made possible. The book also includes a critical analysis of policy making by the European Union, and a comparative review and analysis of regime development in the six countries involved. This book is followed by another volume published with Kluwer Academic Publishers on "Integrated Governance and Water Basin Management", edited by Hans Bressers and Stefan Kuks.

Author : Ken Conca
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A theoretical and case-study exploration of water politics demonstrates the emergence of alternative institutional forms of global environmental governance that go beyond traditional interstate regimes.

Author : World Water Council
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811079137

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This book highlights the relationship between the water sector and various other sectors in order to establish an improved understanding of the importance of water resources as an essential cross-cutting vector of socio-economic development. The book is both policy and practice oriented and is not constrained by existing definitions on water security. It includes actual experiences of policy, management, development and governance decisions taken within the water sector, and examples on how these have affected the energy and agricultural sectors as well as impacted the environment, and vice versa, as appropriate. It also discusses trade-offs, short and long-term implications, lessons learnt, and the way forward. The book includes case studies on cities, countries and regions such as Australia, China, Singapore, Central Asia, Morocco, Southern Africa, France, Latin America, Brazil and California.