Overview
- Presents a unique scientific exploration of contemporary water management and governance issues
- Offers case studies from France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Argentina, Bolivia, the United States, Lebanon and India
- Contributors include economists, geographers, political scientists, engineers, urban planners, anthropologists, sociologists and hydrologists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Water Management Models and Globalization: The “French Model” and Europe
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Water Management Models and Globalization: Privatizations and Access to Water
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Governance, Conflict, and Participation: Sharing the Resource
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Governance, Conflict, and Participation: Mechanisms of Power
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“This volume, edited by Schneier-Madanes (emer., CNRS, France), provides an important overview of water governance in a global context. … the book urges readers to see the issues of water governance simultaneously as local and global, and it provides pathways to start envisaging more effective and equitable international water governance. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty.” (E. S. Norman, Choice, Vol. 52 (4), December, 2014)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalized Water
Book Subtitle: A Question of Governance
Editors: Graciela Schneier-Madanes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7323-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7322-6Published: 19 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0237-7Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7323-3Published: 01 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 289
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Social Sciences, general, Business and Management, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Environment, general