Hydropolitics Interest Groups And Governance

Author : Richard Meissner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319388878

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Hydropolitics, Interest Groups and Governance by Richard Meissner Pdf

This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank, the European Union and project implementation authorities to not construct the proposed Epupa Hydroelectric Power Station on the Kunene River in the Baynes mountains, a region on the border between Namibia and Angola. Some of the issues brought forward by the interest groups are the socio-economic impact the dam would have on the OvaHimba, as well as negative consequences for the river’s aquatic and terrestrial environment. This book argues that interest groups and individuals have the ability to influence the above-mentioned institutions, and to such an extent that water politics and governance are not exclusively the domain of state institutions. As such, it argues that communal interest groups, living in remote parts of the world, can influence state institutions at various political scales.

Author : Richard Meissner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319211305

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Interest Groups, Water Politics and Governance by Richard Meissner Pdf

The book investigates the role interest groups have played over the years to influence the governments of Lesotho and South Africa, the World Bank and project implementation authorities in changing some policy aspects of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). Some of the issues being agitated by the interest groups are the resettlement of villagers where some of the dams for the projects are being constructed. The author argues that interest groups and individuals have the ability to influence the above-mentioned institutions and to such an extent that water politics and governance is not the domain of state institutions only.

Author : Scott Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190864101

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Subnational Hydropolitics by Scott Moore Pdf

"It's often claimed that future wars will be fought over water. But while international water conflict is rare, it's common between sub-national jurisdictions like states and provinces. Drawing on cases in the United States, China, India, and France, this book explains why these sub-national water conflicts occur - and how they can be prevented"--

Author : John Waterbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002133646

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Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley by John Waterbury Pdf

Author : Ashish Pandey,S.K. Mishra,M.L. Kansal,R.D. Singh,V.P. Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030580513

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Water Management and Water Governance by Ashish Pandey,S.K. Mishra,M.L. Kansal,R.D. Singh,V.P. Singh Pdf

This book focusses on hydrological modeling, water management, and water governance. It covers the applications of remote sensing and GIS tools and techniques for land use and land cover classifications, estimation of precipitation, evaluation of morphological changes, and monitoring of soil moisture variability. Moreover, remote sensing and GIS techniques have been applied for crop mapping to assess cropping patterns, computation of reference crop evapotranspiration, and crop coefficient. Hydrological modeling studies have been carried out to address various issues in the water sector. MODFLOW model was successfully applied for groundwater modeling and groundwater recharge estimation. Runoff modeling has been carried out to simulate the snowmelt runoff together with the rainfall and sub-surface flow contributions for snow-fed basins. A study has been included, which predicts the impact of the land use and land cover on stream flow. Various problems in the water sector have been addressed employing hydrological models such as SWAT, ArcSWAT, and VIC. An experimental study has been presented wherein the laboratory performance of rainfall simulator has been evaluated. Hydrological modeling studies involving modifications in the curve number methodology for simulation of floods and sediment load have also been presented. This book is useful for academicians, water practitioners, scientists, water managers, environmentalists, and administrators, NGOs, researchers, and students who are involved in water management with the focus on hydrological modeling, water management, and water governance.

Author : Anthony Turton,Roland Henwood
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 9780620295192

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Hydropolitics in the Developing World by Anthony Turton,Roland Henwood Pdf

Bringing contributions by a variety of authors together in one volume is part of an attempt to show that hydropolitics is a growing discipline in its own right. The prevailing definition of hydropolitics is widened to include the elements of scale and range. This is illustrated through a focus on theoretical and legal issues, case studies from Southern Africa and a proposed research agenda. The book is an important addition to the literature on hydropolitics.

Author : Richard Meissner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030530518

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eThekwini’s Green and Ecological Infrastructure Policy Landscape by Richard Meissner Pdf

This book offers the reader a deeper understanding of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality’s green and ecological infrastructure policy landscape. The author utilises the PULSE3 analytical framework to conduct an in-depth examination and to show how experts frame and implement the municipality’s green and ecological infrastructure strategies and projects. Although the initial purpose of this book was to investigate the role of green and ecological infrastructures in eThekwini’s water security aspirations, the author realised that climate change adaptation and mitigation play a more central role in motivating the municipality to develop and implement such science-driven projects. To be sure, science that is informed by a positivist paradigm, guides how, where and when the municipality should develop green and ecological infrastructures. Furthermore, a positivistic stance is generated in this policy landscape, where science and politics meet at a local government level, and the book offers an insight into the science–policy interface, as well as the normative and value orientations that positivism often ignores. The book also shows the usefulness of the PULSE3 framework and how it can assist scientists in all fields to gain a deeper understanding of the complications that are faced by humankind. This book fills a market gap by providing a view of how scientists think about problems and how to solve them by using established paradigms and theories.

Author : Tobias Haller,Samuel Weissman
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643853783

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Disenchanted Modernities by Tobias Haller,Samuel Weissman Pdf

Mega-Infrastructure Projects (MIPs) represent a central element of globalized development. MIPs like the Chinese driven `Belt and Road Initiative' (BRI) include large-scale agrarian, road, rail, port and energy networks. They are complex ventures involving international capital and multiple stakeholders. `Disenchanted Modernities' presents 16 case studies showing that the promise of a sustainable modern development by MIPs leave many local users disenchanted: They don't profit from the MIPs but lose access to their resources often held in common. The book describes the strategies of states and companies as well as local responses to MIPs in Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe.

Author : Christine Folch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 069118660X

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Hydropolitics by Christine Folch Pdf

An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the world’s biggest producer of renewable energy Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the world’s largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes politics and economics. Itaipu Binational Hydroelectric Dam straddles the Paraná River border that divides the two countries that equally co-own the dam, Brazil and Paraguay. It generates the carbon-free electricity that powers industry in both the giant of South America and one of the smallest economies of the region. Based on unprecedented access to energy decision makers, Christine Folch reveals how Paraguayans harness the dam to engineer wealth, power, and sovereignty, demonstrating how energy capture influences social structures. During the dam’s construction under the right-wing military government of Alfredo Stroessner and later during the leftist presidency of liberation theologian Fernando Lugo, the dam became central to debates about development, governance, and prosperity. Dams not only change landscapes; Folch asserts that the properties of water, transmuted by dams, change states. She argues that the dam converts water into electricity and money to produce hydropolitics through its physical infrastructure, the financial liquidity of energy monies, and the international legal agreements managing transboundary water resources between Brazil and Paraguay, and their neighbors Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay. Looking at the fraught political discussions about the future of the world’s single largest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics explores how this massive public works project touches the lives of all who are linked to it.

Author : Conca, Ken
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781839102042

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Advanced Introduction to Water Politics by Conca, Ken Pdf

In this authoritative Advanced Introduction, Ken Conca expertly examines the fundamentals of water politics, covering poverty, health and livelihoods alongside key areas such as water law, the environment, international politics and the growing role of climate change in water governance

Author : Michael Bollig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108488488

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Shaping the African Savannah by Michael Bollig Pdf

A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.

Author : Omid Bozorg-Haddad
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323906920

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Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources by Omid Bozorg-Haddad Pdf

Economical, Political, and Social Issues in Water Resources provides a fully comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of all three factors in their relation to water resources. Economic issues consist of Water accounting, Water economy, Water pricing, Water market, Water bank and bourse. Political issues consist of Water power and hydrogemistry, Water diplomacy and hydropolitics, Water rights and water laws, Water governance and policy, Shared water resources management, Water management systems, and social issues consist of Water and culture, civilization and history, Water quality, hygiene, and health, Water and society. This book familiarizes researchers with all aspects of the field, which can lead to optimized and multidimensional water resources management. Some of abovementioned issues are new, so the other aim of this book is to identify them in order to researchers can easily find them and use them in their studies. Includes diverse case studies from around the world Presents contributions from global and diverse contributors with interdisciplinary backgrounds, including water engineers, scientists, planners the economic, political and social issues surrounding water Contains in-depth definitions and concepts of each topic

Author : Luis Paulo Batista da Silva,Wagner Costa Ribeiro,Isabella Battistello Espíndola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781003829621

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New Perspectives on Transboundary Water Governance by Luis Paulo Batista da Silva,Wagner Costa Ribeiro,Isabella Battistello Espíndola Pdf

This book presents a novel examination of transboundary water governance, drawing on global case studies and applying new theoretical approaches. Excessive consumption and degradation of natural resources can either heighten the risks of conflicts or encourage cooperation within and among countries, and this is particularly pertinent to the governance of water. This book fills a lacuna by providing an interdisciplinary examination of transboundary water governance, presenting a range of novel and emerging theoretical approaches. Acknowledging that issues vary across different regions, the book provides a global view from South and Central America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, with the case studies offering civil society and public managers concrete situations that indicate difficulties and successes in water sharing between bordering countries. The volume highlights the links between natural resources, political geography, international politics, and development, with chapters delving into the role of paradiplomacy, the challenges of climate change adaptation, and the interconnections between aquifers and international development. With rising demand for water in the face of climate change, this book aims to stimulate further theoretical, conceptual, and methodological debate in the field of transboundary water governance to ensure peaceful and fair access to shared water resources. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of water resource governance from a wide variety of disciplines, including geography, international relations, global development, and law. It will also be of interest to professionals and policymakers working on natural resource governance and international cooperation.

Author : Paula Hanasz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351599313

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Transboundary Water Governance and International Actors in South Asia by Paula Hanasz Pdf

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the mid-2000s, and the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI) is its most ambitious project in this regard. Yet neither SAWI nor other international initiatives, such as those of the Australian and UK governments, have been able to significantly improve transboundary water interaction between India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. This book identifies factors that contribute to water conflicts and that detract from water cooperation in this region. It sheds light on how international organisations affect these transboundary water interactions. The book discusses how donor-led initiatives can better engage with transboundary hydropolitics to increase cooperation and decrease conflict over shared freshwater resources. It is shown that there are several challenges: addressing transboundary water issues is not a top priority for the riparian states; there is concern about India’s hydro-hegemony and China's influence; and international actors in general do not have substantial support of the local elites. However, the book suggests some ways forward for improving transboundary water interaction. These include: addressing the political context and historical grievances; building trust and reducing power asymmetry between riparian states; creating political will for cooperation; de-securitising water; taking a problemshed view; strengthening water sharing institutions; and moving beyond narratives of water scarcity and supply-side solutions.

Author : Arun P. Elhance
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1878379917

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Hydropolitics in the Third World by Arun P. Elhance Pdf

With more than 50 percent of the world's landmass covered by river basins shared by two or more states, competition over water resources has always had the potential to spark violence. And growing populations and accelerating demands for fresh water are putting ever greater pressures on already scarce water resources. In this wide-ranging study, Arun Elhance explores the hydropolitics of six of the world's largest river basins. In each case, Elhance examines the basin's physical, economic, and political geography; the possibilities for acute conflict; and efforts to develop bilateral and multilateral agreements for sharing water resources. The case studies lead to some sobering conclusions about impediments to cooperation but also to some encouraging ones--among them, that it may not be possible for Third World states to solve their water problems by going to war, and that eventually even the strongest riparian states are compelled to seek cooperation with their weaker neighbors.