Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle

Author:   Rutgerd Boelens (Wageningen University, the Netherlands; and Catholic University, Peru) ,  Ben Crow ,  Jaime Hoogesteger (Waginengen University, the Netherlands) ,  Flora E. Lu
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138288843


Pages:   412
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
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Author:   Rutgerd Boelens (Wageningen University, the Netherlands; and Catholic University, Peru) ,  Ben Crow ,  Jaime Hoogesteger (Waginengen University, the Netherlands) ,  Flora E. Lu
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.884kg
ISBN:  

9781138288843


ISBN 10:   1138288845
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   01 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Introduction: interweaving water struggles, institutions, and the making of territory Part I: Theories of the Hydrosocial and Water Equity 2. Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action 3. Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective 4. What kind of governance for what kind of equity? Towards a theorization of justice in water governance 5. What is water equity? The unfortunate consequences of a global focus on ‘drinking water’ Part II: Water Governance 6. PES hydro-social territories: deterritorialization and repatterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands 7. Losing the watershed focus: a look at complex community-managed irrigation systems in Bolivia 8. Examining the emerging role of groundwater in water inequity in India 9. The colonial roots of inequality: access to water in urban East Africa 10. Popular participation, equity, and co-production of water and sanitation services in Caracas, Venezuela 11. Creating equitable water institutions on disputed land: a Honduran case study 12. Democratizing discourses: conceptions of ownership, autonomy and ‘the state’ in Nicaragua’s rural water governance 13. Adjudicating hydrosocial territory in New Mexico Part III: Hydrosocial Struggles 14. Downspout politics, upstream conflict: formalizing rainwater harvesting in the United States 15. Disputes over territorial boundaries and diverging valuation languages: the Santurban hydro-social highlands territory in Colombia 16. Diverting realities: how framing, values and water management are interwoven in the Albufera de Valencia wetland in Spain 17. Disputes over land and water rights in gold mining: the case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico 18. Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands 19. Amazonian Hydrosociality: The Politics of Water Projects among the Waorani of Ecuador 20. Water scarcity and the exclusionary city: the struggle for water justice in Lima, Peru 21. Inclusive recognition politics and the struggle over ‘hydro-social territories’ in two Bolivian highland communities 22. Virtual water trade and the contestation of hydro-social territories 23. From Spain’s hydro-deadlock to the desalination fix 24. Santa Cruz Declaration on the Global Water Crisis 25. Conclusion

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Rutgerd Boelens is a Professor of Political Ecology of Water at CEDLA, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Ben Crow is a Professor of Sociology in the Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Jaime Hoogesteger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Flora Lu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Provost of College Nine and College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Erik Swyngedouw is a Professor of Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK. Jeroen Vos is an Assistant Professor of Water Governance in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

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