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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041574685X ISBN 13: 9780415746854

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041574685X
• ISBN 13: 9780415746854
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Arsel Murat