Water is essential for human life and at the centre of political, economic, and socio-cultural development. This Routledge Handbook of Water and Development offers a systematic, wide-ranging, and state-of-the-art guide to the diverse links between water and development across the globe. It is organized into four parts:

  • Part I explores the most significant theories and approaches to the relationship between water and development
  • Part II consists of carefully selected in-depth case studies, revealing how water utilization and management are deeply intertwined with historical development paths and economic and socio-cultural structures
  • Part III analyses the role of governance in the management of water and development
  • Part IV covers the most urgent themes and issues pertaining to water and development in the contemporary world, ranging from climate change and water stress to agriculture and migration

The 32 chapters by leading experts are meant to stimulate researchers and students in a wide range of disciplines in the social and natural sciences, including Geography, Environmental Studies, Development Studies, and Political Science. The Handbook will also be of great value to policymakers and practitioners.

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Water is essential for human life and at the centre of political, economic and socio-cultural development. This Routledge Handbook on Water and Development offers a systematic, wide-ranging and state-of-the-art guide to the diverse links between water and development across the globe.

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  1. Introduction: The Water-Development Nexus
  2. Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain and Joakim Öjendal

    PART I: THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

  3. Water as a Tool for Modernity
  4. Joakim Öjendal & Sofie Hellberg

  5. Institutional Approaches to Water for Development
  6. Larry Swatuk

  7. Water and Human Development: Unpacking Scarcity and ‘water crises’
  8. Lyla Mehta

  9. Critical and Post-structural Approaches to Water and Development
  10. Sofie Hellberg

  11. Feminist Contributions to Water and Development Scholarship
  12. Margreet Zwarteveen

  13. Indigenous Peoples, Sustainable Development, and Ontologies of Water
  14. Deborah McGregor, Mahisha Sritharan and Steve Whitaker

    PART II: CASE STUDIES ON WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

  15. Cambodia
  16. Joakim Öjendal

  17. South Africa
  18. Richard Meissner, Nikki Funke, Stephen Rule. Karen Nortje and Inga Jacobs-Mata

  19. Peru
  20. Patricia Urteaga Crovetto

  21. Jordan
  22. Neda Zawahri

  23. The Netherlands
  24. Erik Mostert

    PART III: GOVERNING WATER AND DEVELOPMENT

  25. Governing Water Services
  26. Klaas Schwarz and Mireia Tutusaus

  27. Water, Neoliberalism and Commodification
  28. Jessica Budds and Alex Loftus

  29. The Human Right to Water
  30. Peter H. Gleick

  31. Water Resources Management – The Missing Political Link
  32. Kurt Mörck Jensen and Jens Christian Refsgaard

  33. Water, Participation and Development
  34. Jeroen Warner and Richard Meissner

  35. Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters
  36. Jeroen Warner

  37. Strategies towards SDG 6 Implementation
  38. Anik Bhaduri, Alexandre Teixeira and Aditya Kaushik

    PART IV: THEMES AND ISSUES

  39. Water, Food and Irrigation
  40. Jaime Hoogesteger, Diana Suhardiman, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas and Rutgerd Boelens

  41. Groundwater
  42. Susann Baez Ullberg and Henrik Josefsson

  43. Water Stress and Scarcity
  44. Zafar Adeel

  45. Water, Migration and Development
  46. Anders Jägerskog and Ashok Swain

  47. Water and Climate Change
  48. Deliang Chen and Hui-Wen Lai

  49. Drought
  50. Elisa Savelli

  51. Water-Energy Nexus
  52. Aiko Endo

  53. Water Inequalities
  54. Maria Rusca

  55. Gendered Intersections in Water and Development
  56. Gaylean Davies, Evelyn Arriagada and Leila M. Harris

  57. Urban Water
  58. Susan van de Meene

  59. Water and Health
  60. Jo Geere, Paul R Hunter and Bruce Lankford

  61. Sanitation
  62. Nelson Ekane

  63. Digital Water

Karen Bakker, Rosemary Knight, Raymond T Ng, Alan K Mackworth and Max Ritts

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367558765
Publisert
2023-11-21
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
174 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
354

Om bidragsyterne

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.