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Freshwater as a Global Commons
Water is essential for all life on earth and is a key prerequisite for attaining many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many countries, however, suffer from physical water scarcity, a lack of access to a safe water supply and sanitation, water pollution or hydrological extremes (droughts and floods) due to climate change. The generality and severity of water problems lead many to speak of a global water crisis. While this crisis mostly manifests at the local or in some cases transboundary level, two global issues are often overlooked. First, global trends such as climate change and the spread of water-intensive consumption and trade patterns are key triggers that cannot be addressed at the local level alone. Second, the aggregation of local or regional water problems may add up to a universal threat to sustainable development. In the face of current challenges, (fresh) water should be conceptualised as a global common good, and global water governance should contribute to improving its protection. [...]
Economies, Institutions and Territories
Presenting multidisciplinary and global insights, this book explores the nexus between economies, institutions, and territories and how global phenomena have local consequences. It examines how original and innovative economic related processes embed themselves in societies at the local level; how boundaries between the state and the market are placed under stress by unexpected changes. It explores whether new types of elites and forms of social inequalities are emerging as a result of institutional and economic changes, and whether peripheral areas are experiencing insidious forms of economic and institutional lock-in. Presenting empirical cases and useful analytical and conceptual tools, the book makes current economic and territorial phenomena more understandable. This is an important read for students and scholars in the fields of geography, sociology, political sciences, anthropology, economics, regional science, and international relations. It is also a valuable resource for policymakers, well-educated lay readers and economic, political and international relations journalists.
Landwirtschaftliche Transformation, Desertifikation und nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung
Abstract: In Usbekistan ist ein Desertifikationsprozess zu beobachten, der häufig durch ungeeignete landwirtschaftliche Produktionsmethoden verursacht wird. Die meisten der heute in der usbekischen Landwirtschaft bestehenden nicht nachhaltigen Nutzungsmuster haben ihren Ursprung in den institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der sowjetischen Zeit. Der mit der Unabhängigkeit Usbekistans verbundene Transformations- und Reformprozess stellt eine Gelegenheit dar, diese Nutzungsmuster zugunsten nachhaltiger Strukturen und Produktionsmethoden zu ändern. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht die Studie den gegenwärtigen Stand der Reformen einschließlich der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen und zeigt einige Perspektiven für mögliche weitere Schritte auf. Die Arbeit beruht hauptsächlich auf der Auswertung von Sekundärquellen. Daneben werden 2003/2004 Interviews sowohl mit Vertretern der Wissenschaft als auch der entwicklungspolitischen Praxis geführt. Der erste Schritt dient der Darstellung der konzeptionel
Water Policy in the Philippines
This book describes challenges in the policy and practices of the various water sectors in the Philippines that have led to water conflicts. Such conflicts arise in the nature of rural-urban competition, trans-administrative boundary issues, and inconsistencies between customary and state rules, and even within state rules. Using inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary approaches, and analysing from various scales - community, local and national governments - the book discusses policies and strategies needed towards achieving water security especially for the poor. Reflective of the complex and urgent water policy and governance issues in many developing countries, the book offers valuable lessons and insights to policy makers, water sector managers, planners and regulators as well as to academics, researchers and students.
Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume 1
We are used to distinguishing the despotic regimes of the 20th century - communism, fascism, National Socialism, Maoism - very precisely according to place and time, origins and influences. But what should we call that which they have in common? On this question, there has been and is still a passionate debate. This book documents the first international conference on this theme, a conference that took place in September of 1994 at the University of Munich. The book shows how new models for understanding political history arose from the experience of modern despotic regimes. Here, the most important concepts - totalitarianism and political religions - are discussed and tested in terms of their usefulness.
What is Water?
We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H20 - this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. An original take on a deceptively complex issue, What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem.
