Water politics and development cooperation: local power plays and global governance

Whether people have access to drinking water, irrigation water and sanitationor not, whether water resources are used sustainably or overexploited, and whether emerging challenges for the water sector - such as adaptation to climatechange – are tackled or not, in the end relies on politics. The importance ofthe political sphere for understanding and solving water sector problems is the basic rationale of this book, which is the outcome of the Fifth Dialogues on Water, organised at the German Development Institute, Bonn. It is not the first time that the Dialogues on Water have touched upon water politics. But these Dialogues, unlike earlier ones, focussed on the political processes of policy formulation and the strategic behaviour of the actors involved. INDICE: Global Norms and National Policies.- Critical Debates revisited.- Politics of Water Supply and Sanitation.- Power Plays in Irrigation Reforms.- Development Cooperation.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-76706-0
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 450
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés