Governing Water Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building

Name: Governing Water Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building
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ISBN: 9780262532730

ISBN-10: 0262532735

ISBN-13: 9780262532730

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ken Conca, Nazli Choucri

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Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a source of contentious politics and social controversy on a global scale, and the management of water conflicts is one of the biggest challenges in the effort to achieve effective global environmental governance.In "Governing Water, Ken Conca examines political struggles to create a global framework for the governance of water. Threats to the world's rivers, watersheds, and critical freshwater ecosystems have resisted the establishment of effective global agreements through intergovernmental bargaining because the…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 486
Size: 6.46" wide x 8.78" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Series Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Managing the Global Environment or Protecting the Planet's Places? Institutional Forms of Global Environmental Governance



Toward a Social Theory of International Institutions



Pushing Rivers Around: The Cumulative Toll on the World's Watersheds and Freshwater Ecosystems



Swimming Upstream: In Search of a Global Regime for International Rivers (with Fengshi Wu and Joanne Neukirchen)



Expert Networks: The Elusive Quest for Integrated Water Resources Management



The Ecology of Human Rights: Anti-Dam Activism and Watershed Democracy



Invisible Hand, Visible Fist: The Transnational Politics of Water Marketization



Brazil: Innovation through Conflict



South Africa: "With Water We Will Wash Away the Past"



Institution Building as the Social Embedding of Political Struggle


Notes


References