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As the world's population continues to grow apace and an increasing number of countries aspire to a twenty-first century lifestyle so the question of access to water resources becomes ever more critical. This timely volume shows how the struggle to control water is an issue of growing geopolitical importance. Drawing on a wealth of examples, and revealing how current problems are not necessarily new as often suggested, the international contributors provide a deeper theroetical analysis of the issues, enabling a clearer understanding to be obtained of how experience in one region can properly be related to that of other regions.

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Author:   Terje Tvedt (University of Bergen, Norway) ,  Graham Chapman ,  Roar Hagen
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Volume:   03
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.998kg
ISBN:  

9781848853515

ISBN 10:   1848853513
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   30 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Reflections on collective action, collective power and geopolitics Chapter 1: Water, collective power and geopolitics in the new world order Roar Hagen, Graham Chapman & Terje Tvedt Chapter 2: You Can't Get There from Here: Theoretic Puzzles of Collective Action John Waterbury Chapter 3: Environmental Geopolitics and Hydro-Hegemony: The case of Palestine and Israel Mark Zeitoun Chapter 4: Water - a source of wars or a pathway to peace? Terje Tvedt Part II Water, Power and Geopolitics: Historical Examples Chapter 5: Aquatic Warfare in Historic China Ralph D. Sawyer Chapter 6: Water in Medieval Warfare Helen J. Nicholson Chapter 7: The Peace of Westphalia and the Water Question Pierre Beaudry Chapter 8: The Historical Origins of Criticism Regarding the Destruction of the Amazon River's natural resources Jose Augusto Padua Chapter 9: Water and the Partitioning of Southern Africa Dean Kampanje-Phiri Part III Water, Power and Geopolitics in the Contemporary World Chapter 10: Continental Divide: The Issue of Freshwater in Canada-United States Relations Frank Quinn Chapter 11: The Water Framework Directive: Redesigning the Map of Europe? Duncan Liefferink, Mark Wiering and Pieter Leroy Chapter 12: The transboundary rivers on the Iberian Peninsula and the water management regime between Spain and Portugal Jos G. Timmerman Chapter 13: The strategic and political use of potential climate change in conflict Peter Halden Chapter 14: The highlands: a shared water tower in a changing climate and changing Asia Jianchu XU & Ed Grumbine Chapter 15: Space, Identity and Water: South Asia's Northeast and the Brahmaputra Graham Chapman Chapter 16: From Damming Rivers to Linking Waters. Is this the beginning of the end of Supply-Side Hydrology in India? Rohan D'Souza Chapter 17: Critical Hydropolitics in the Indus Basin Daanish Mustafa Chapter 18: The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: Turkey as a Regional Power Marwa Daoudy Chapter 19: Shared Water and Changing Geo-Politics and Power in Central Asia Zainiddin Karaev Chapter 20: Landscape, Power and State-making in the mid-Zambezi Borderlands JoAnn McGregor Chapter 21: Geopolitics of Groundwater Todd Jarvis Chapter 22: International law and moderations of physical geography: the Nile setting Tadesse Kassa Chapter 23: Water: Global Actors and Institutions Ruth Langridge Index ?

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Terje Tvedt is Professo of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. he is the author of The River Nile in the Age of the British and has co-directed and written two successful television documentaries on water. Professor Graham Chapman is Honorary Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster. He is the author of Water and the Quest for Sustainable Development in the Ganges Valley (1994) and The Geopolitics of South Asia: From Early Empires to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (London, 2000). Roar Hagen is Professor in Sociology at the University of Tromso, Norway.

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