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Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management) by Leila M. Harris; Jacqueline A. Goldin; Christopher Sneddon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally-scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked
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- Author
- Leila M. Harris; Jacqueline A. Goldin; Christopher Sneddon
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781135125059
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Nature, Management
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