Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation
The fluidity of transboundary waters perfectly represents contemporary challenges to modern governance. This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity. Depending on context, water may be a security issue, a gift of nature, a product of imagination, or an integral part of the natural or cultural ecology.The contributors represent a range of disciplines,...
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This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity.
List of TablesList of FiguresForewordPrefaceIConcepts and Meanings1Emerging Approaches to Comprehend Changing Global Contexts32Expanding Perspectives on Transboundary Water31IICase Studies3The Confluence of Water, Patterns of Settlement, and Constructions of the Border in the Imperial and the Mexicali Valleys (1900-1999)574Lessons from Lake Constance: Ideas, Institutions, and Advocacy Coalitions895The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative: Reconstructing Boundaries, Biodiversity, and Beliefs1236Discursive Practices and Competing Discourses in the Governance of Wild North American Pacific Salmon Resources1637Discourses and Water in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region1898A Hydroelectric Power Complex on Both Sides of a War: Potential Weapon or Peace Incentive?2139Black Sea Environmental Management: Prospects for New Paradigms in Transitional Contexts23910Water as a Boundary: National Parks, Rivers, and the Politics of Demarcation in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe267IIILessons for Theory, Research, and Governance11Perspectives from the Districts of Water and Power: A Report on Flows29712Lessons from the Spaces of Unbound Water for Research and Governance in a Glocalized World321Contributors341Index343
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