Reflections on water: new approaches to transboundary conflicts and cooperation

Joachim Blatter, Helen Ingram026202487X, 9780262024877, 0262522845, 9780262522847, 9781423725336

A text exploring and considering alternatives and new approaches in transboundary conflicts and cooperation in the human relationship with water. Argues that this relationship must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as a commodity to encompass the other purposes of water in human life. Hardcover, softcover also available. DLC: Water-supply–Management.

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Table of contents :
Tables……Page 10
Figures……Page 12
Foreword……Page 14
Preface……Page 16
1 Emerging Approaches to Comprehend Changing Global Contexts 1……Page 20
2 Expanding Perspectives on Transboundary Water 2……Page 48
3 The Confluence of Water, Patterns of Settlement, and Constructions of the Border in the Imperial and Mexicali Valleys (1900–1999) 3……Page 74
4 Lessons from Lake Constance: Ideas, Institutions, and Advocacy Coalitions 4……Page 106
5 The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative: Reconstructing Boundaries, Biodiversity, and Beliefs 5……Page 140
6 Discursive Practices and Competing Discourses in the Governance of Wild North American Pacific Salmon Resources 6……Page 180
7 Discourses and Water in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region 7……Page 206
8 A Hydroelectric Power Complex on Both Sides of a War: Potential Weapon or Peace Incentive? 8……Page 230
9 Black Sea Environmental Management: Prospects for New Paradigms in Transitional Contexts 9……Page 256
10 Water as a Boundary: National Parks, Rivers, and the Politics of Demarcation in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe 10……Page 284
11 Perspectives from the Districts of Water and Power: A Report on Flows 11……Page 314
12 Lessons from the Spaces of Unbound Water for Research and Governance in a Glocalized World 12……Page 338
Contributors……Page 358
Index……Page 360