Books in the Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management series

This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another.

This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water regime debate, by focusing on the results of these types of initiatives to provide better water services, particularly in urban settings.

This book assesses the implications of research for global water ethics and the idea of a water ethics charter.

This book aims to provide a basin-wide analysis of the political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin.

This book introduces the concept of Water Diplomacy as a principled and pragmatic approach to problem driven interdisciplinary collaboration, which has been developed as a response to pressing contemporary water challenges arising from the coupling of natural and human systems.

This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin.

Pressure on water resources and management in Latin American cities provide major challenges. This work reviews key aspects and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, financing of services and flood management.

Focusing on the concept of trans-jurisdictional water governance the book diagnoses barriers and identifies pathways to coherent and coordinated institutional arrangements between and across different bodies of laws at local, national, regional and international levels.

This stimulating volume brings together diverse approaches to exploring the human relationship with water, and adds to the current zeitgeist of writing about water by expanding the discussion about this vital substance.

This book delves into the complex and often hidden connection between water and the processes of state-building and nation-building. Case studies cover a diverse range of geographical areas and countries including China, Cyprus, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Mexico, Syria and Uzbekistan.

This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two NGO coalitions advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower dam on the Mekong River.

This book analyzes evidence from river basins around the world and identifies common barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate change through water resources management. Case studies are included from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. All chapters consider the crosscutting themes of institutional capacity, equity, and sustainability.

Rather than a marginal part of protected area management, this book shows that freshwater conservation is central to sustaining biodiversity. It focuses on better practices for conserving inland aquatic ecosystems in protected areas (PAs), including rivers, wetlands, swamps, other brackish and freshwater ecosystems, and coastal estuaries.

This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two NGO coalitions advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower dam on the Mekong River.

Drawing on evidence from implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) in eight case studies, this book examines a range of approaches to participatory river basin management planning, and considers how participation impacted on the environmental standard of planning documents, quality of implementation, and social outcomes.

Taking as its starting point the claim that there is a stalemate in contemporary water policy design, this book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions.

This book assesses the implications of research for global water ethics and the idea of a water ethics charter.

This book, after setting out basin-level legal and policy successes and failures of managing and sharing Nile waters, articulates the opportunities and challenges surrounding the GERD through multiple disciplinary lenses.

The central focus of this book is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. Through a series of case studies it is shown how decision-making and implementation at the appropriate geographic and governmental scales can resolve conflicts and share best sustainable practices.

This book brings together empirical research on the changing conditions of a range of river basin environments in the contemporary world, including the history and culture of local societies living in these river basins. It provides theoretical insights on the nature of the interaction between rivers and human communities.

This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin.

With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another, and thereby to reveal the diverse ways in which human activity affects the planet.

This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water regime debate, by focusing on the results of these types of initiatives to provide better water services, particularly in urban settings.

This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders in the global South, in an attempt to explore and explain under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects.

Focusing on the concept of trans-jurisdictional water governance the book diagnoses barriers and identifies pathways to coherent and coordinated institutional arrangements between and across different bodies of laws at local, national, regional and international levels.

This volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis, specifically how access to water is determined in different regions and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed, and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another.