Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development: Conflict and Cooperation in Central Eurasia: 05 (Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods) - Hardcover

 
9780415461610: Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development: Conflict and Cooperation in Central Eurasia: 05 (Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415461618 ISBN 13: 9780415461610
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. Using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop, the chapters in this volume combine solid empirical investigation with critical analysis of key concepts such as ‘scarcity’, ‘expert knowledge’, and ‘efficiency’. The central theme emerging from the contributions emphasizes the need to reevaluate accepted wisdom in resource studies that considers distributional conflicts over water usage as inherently zero-sum outcomes in which one player’s gains inevitably correspond to another player’s losses. Instead, the empirical and critical analyses in this book demonstrate that effective management of water resources can be re-conceptualized as the basis for regional cooperation and sustainable rural development.

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About the Author

Murat Arsel is a Lecturer in Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague/Erasmus University Rotterdam. Max Spoor is Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague/Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415461618
ISBN 13 
9780415461610
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Editor
Arsel Murat, Spoor Max