Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends

Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends

Policy and Practice

Brethaut, Christian

Palgrave Macmillan

08/2017

305

Dura

Inglês

9781137600851

15 a 20 dias


Versão ebook 99,99 €

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.
1. Taking-Up Practical and Intellectual Challenges Posed by International Water Management Trends: Some Introductory Remarks; C.Brethaut and R.Schweizer.- 2. Avoiding the Commons Trap: An Exploration of Local Community Governance of Water in Valais, Switzerland; R.Schweizer.- 3. Integrated Water Resources Management as a Compromise: Renewing the Water Act in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland; A.Buchs.- 4. Transboundary Water Management: From Geopolitics to a Non-State Analytical Perspective: The Case of the Rhone river; C.Brethaut.- 5. From Multi-Level Governance to Scalar Politics: Water Community Networks Challenging Neo-Extractivist Governmental Institutions in Ecuador; E.Dupuits.- 6. Exploring the Democratic Legitimacy of Privatization in the Water Sector: Two Cases in Switzerland; E.Lieberherr.- 7. Governing Water with Market-Based Instruments: Preferences and Skepticism in Switzerland; F.Metz & P.Leifeld.- 8. Climate Change Adaptation as a New Global Norm in the Water Sector? Between Symbolism and Dilution; J.Dupuis.- 9. Water Security as a Normative Goal or as a Structural Principle for Water Governance; T.Bolognesi & S.Kluser.- 10. Politicizing the Water-Energy Nexus. Hydropower and Instream Values in Two Swiss Cantons Water Strategies; L.Tonka.- 11. From the Promises of International Water Management Trends to the Reality of Policies and Practices: Some Conclusive Thoughts; R.Schweizer & C.Brethaut.