Reshaping National Water Politics
Author | : Martin Reuss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Federal aid to water resources development |
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Author | : Martin Reuss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Federal aid to water resources development |
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Author | : Todd Jennings |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Wendy Nelson Espeland |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226217932 |
Nearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the dam would bring valuable water to this arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. The Struggle for Water is not only the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted public works project but also a study of rationality as a cultural, organizational, and political construct. In the 1970s, the three groups most intimately involved in the Orme Dam—younger Bureau of Reclamation employees committed to "rational choice" decision making, older Bureau engineers committed to the dam, and the Yavapai community—all found themselves and their values transformed by their struggles. Wendy Nelson Espeland lays bare the relations between interests and identities that emerged during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice, that asks the crucial question of what it means to be "rational."
Author | : Scott Moore |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190864109 |
It's often claimed that future wars will be fought over water. But while international water conflict is rare, it's common between subnational jurisdictions like states and provinces. Drawing on cases in the United States, China, India, and France, this book explains why these subnational water conflicts occur - and how they can be prevented.
Author | : Rutgerd Boelens |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2015-04-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317964039 |
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the ground and national/global policy-making institutions and elites; and how grassroots defend against encroachment, question the self-evidence of State-/market-based water governance, and confront coercive and participatory boundary policing (‘normal’ vs. ‘abnormal’). The book examines grassroots building of multi-layered water-rights territories, and State, market and expert networks’ vigorous efforts to reshape these water societies in their own image – seizing resources and/or aligning users, identities and rights systems within dominant frameworks. Distributive and cultural politics entwine. It is shown that attempts to modernize and normalize users through universalized water culture, ‘rational water use’ and de-politicized interventions deepen water security problems rather than alleviating them. However, social struggles negotiate and enforce water rights. User collectives challenge imposed water rights and identities, constructing new ones to strategically acquire water control autonomy and re-moralize their waterscapes. The author shows that battles for material control include the right to culturally define and politically organize water rights and territories. Andean illustrations from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile, from peasant-indigenous life stories to international policy-making, highlight open and subsurface hydro-social networks. They reveal how water justice struggles are political projects against indifference, and that engaging in re-distributive policies and defying ‘truth politics,’ extends context-particular water rights definitions and governance forms.
Author | : Rutgerd Boelens |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2018-08-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1351973649 |
Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and understandings around water, a key element in the assemblage of hydrosocial territories. Hydrosocial territories are spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the control of water. Territorial politics finds expression in encounters of diverse actors with divergent spatial and political–geographical interests; as a result, water (in)justice and (in)equity are embedded in these socio-ecological contexts. The territory-building projections and strategies compete, superimpose and align to strengthen specific water-control claims of various interests. As a result, actors continuously recompose the territory’s hydraulic grid, cultural reference frames, and political–economic relationships. Using a political ecology focus, the different contributions to this book explore territorial struggles, demonstrating that these contestations are not merely skirmishes over natural resources, but battles over meaning, norms, knowledge, identity, authority and discourses. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.
Author | : Charles E. Yoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Planning |
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Author | : Peter A. Unwal |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781594547577 |
For over a century, the federal government has constructed water resource projects for a variety of purposes, including flood control, navigation, power generation, and irrigation. While most municipal and industrial water supplies have been built by non-federal entities, most of the large, federal water supply projects in the West, including Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, were constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) to provide water for irrigation. Growing populations and changing values have increased demands on water supplies and river systems, resulting in water use and management conflicts throughout the country, particularly in the West, where the population is expected to increase 30% in the next 20-25 years. In many western states, agricultural needs are often in direct conflict with urban needs, as well as with water demand for threatened and endangered species, recreation, and scenic enjoyment. Debate over western water resources revolves around the issue of how best to plan for and manage the use of this renewable, yet sometimes scarce and increasingly sought after, resource. Some observers advocate enhancing water supplies, for example, by building new storage or diversion projects, expanding old ones, or funding water reclamation and reuse facilities. Others emphasise the need to manage existing supplies more efficiently through conservation, revision of policies that encourage inefficient use of water, and establishment of market mechanisms to allocate water. Recent proposals to expand the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway (UMR-IWW) a major transportation route for products moving to and from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin have met with significant controversy. Some of this controversy centres on the cumulative environmental effects of the current navigation system and the proposed expansion. The Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), which includes the navigation channel and surrounding floodplain supports an unusually large number of species for a temperate river. The UMR-IWW navigation system alters UMRS habitat and contributes to a decline in the abundance of some species. For example, locks, dams, and other channel structures inhibit the movement of fish between and within river segments; fill side channels, backwaters, and wetlands with sediment; and suppress plant growth by reducing water clarity.
Author | : Victoria. Town and Country Planning Board |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : 1428913440 |
Author | : Julie Trottier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2004-11-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199267642 |
This analysis of the evolution of water politics examines such areas as: water management in the Middle Ages in Europe and its evolution in the USA; the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive; the British experience of water management; the over-exploitation of African aquifers, and more.