Water Politics and Development Cooperation: Local Power Plays and Global Governance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642095410 ISBN 13: 9783642095412

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

This statement in the most recent Human Development Report articulates a conv- tion that has increasingly gained ground in the water community over recent years: the key challenge in the water sector is not a lack of water, knowledge, nancial - sourcesortechnology.Ingeneral,itisthepoliticalspherethatdetermineswhetheror not water problems are solved, whether or not people have access to drinking water, irrigation water and sanitation, whether our natural resource base is developed s- tainable or overexploited, and whether new challenges for the water sector – such as adaptation to climate change – will be tackled or not. Politics (the process of decision-making of groups of people, involving the authoritative allocation of e.g. resources), the actors, their interests and interactions determine whether progress is made or hindered. The outcome of water politics is then re ected in water po- cies, the substantive outcome of the political interplay in terms of regulations, action programs or spending priorities of the various public or private entities concerned.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642095410
• ISBN 13: 9783642095412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 446
• Editor: Scheumann Waltina, Neubert Susanne, Kipping Martin