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Conclusions - when is an alternative a positive innovation? -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 10: Toward a Water-Sensitive Future -- Introduction - paradigms and politics -- Achieving the new paradigm - resistance -- Finding viable governance - the limits of markets -- Process and power - gender, culture, community -- Purpose - improving governance through appropriate scale -- Conclusions - new approaches, old problems -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Why Water Politics Matters -- A tale of two cities -- A framework for water politics -- Process -- Power -- Purpose -- Gender and water as ethical and cultural conundrum -- Understanding contemporary water politics - the importance of multiple perspectives -- "Back to the future" - understanding the present through learning from the past -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 2: Contested Waters: The Politics of Supply -- Overview -- Cities and water supply -- Agriculture, politics, and water supply -- Public vs. private ownership - process, power, and purpose -- Marketing - water as tradeable commodity -- Conclusion - water supply equity -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 3: Clean, Green, and Costly: Water Quality -- Introduction - pollution politics -- An overview of water quality politics - past as prologue -- Pollution politics - national variants of process, power, and purpose -- Comparing water pollution politics -- Comparative lessons: power, inequality, and pollution -- The politics of innovation - "thinking outside the pipe" -- Pollutant trading: a tale of two watersheds -- The politics of unconventional pollutants -- Conclusion: a "green" solution to pollution? -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 4: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus -- Complicated links between food, energy, and water -- Nexus I: The Politics of water and energy - power, process, purpose -- "Fracking" as microcosm of energy-water nexus politics -- Nexus II: water-energy-food -- Conclusion - the future nexus and its political challenges -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 5: Drought, Flood, and Everything In-Between
Water as extreme hazard -- Flooding and drought - political process -- Varying power, evolving process, divergent purpose - flood -- Information, trust, power, and purpose - drought -- Climate change and water politics -- Reforming the politics of climate and water: knowledge networks -- Conclusion - spanning expert and lay audiences -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 6: Water Rights and Water Wrongs -- Why Law Matters -- Law as purpose -- American water law - power and competing purpose -- Debates over power and purpose - the West -- Purpose as vision - ancient traditions and water laws -- Law as process - compacts and basin commissions -- Conclusion - What gives water law its power? -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 7: International Cooperation -- Global and trans-boundary issues -- Overcoming barriers - the art of confidence building in formal regimes -- Non-governmental networks - "soft" power and cooperation -- Conclusions - new challenges in trans-boundary accord -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 8: Water Conflicts -- What causes water disputes? -- Diverting water - power, process, purpose -- Depletion - what happens when water is used up? -- Degradation - dysfunctional waters in dispute -- Conclusion - can divergent interests be reconciled? -- SUMMARY -- RECOMMENDED READING -- WEBSITES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 9: Tapping into Toilets: New Sources of Water -- Introduction - the politics of water alternatives -- Is there a political process for adopting alternatives? -- Desalination - purpose, process, and power -- Supply approaches and fairness -- Demand-side measures - do they really work? -- Purpose - are demand-side measures fair?
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