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The Business of Global Environmental Governance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

The Business of Global Environmental Governance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Theoretical and empirical accounts of the role of business in shaping international environmental policies.

Flows and Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 379

Flows and Practices

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-19
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  • Publisher: Weaver Press

For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Grounded in social science theory and research, it highlights the importance of politics, history and culture in shaping water management practices and reform, and demonstrates how Africa has clearly been a laboratory for IWRM. While a new cadre of professionals made IWRM their mission, we show that poor women and men may not have always benefitted. In some cases IWRM has also offered a distraction from more critical issues such as water and land grabs, privatisation, the negative impacts of water permits, and a range of institutional ambiguities that prevent water allocations to small and poor water users. By critically examining the interpretations and challenges of IWRM, the book contributes to improving water policies and practices and making them more locally appropriate in Africa and beyond.

Water in a Changing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 437

Water in a Changing World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-01-01
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  • Publisher: UNESCO

"The United Nations World Water Development Report", published every three years, is a comprehensive review providing an authoritative picture of the state of the world's freshwater resources. It offers best practices as well as in-depth theoretical analyses to help stimulate ideas and actions for better stewardship in the water sector. It is the only report of its kind, resulting from the collaboration and contributions of the 26 UN agencies, commissions, program, funds, secretariats and conventions that have a significant role in addressing global water concerns.

Environmental Management in Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 550

Environmental Management in Practice

This volume focuses on the techniques and tools currently available to the environmental manager. A theoretical background is given together with an overview of those instruments in common use today.

Foreign Aid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Foreign Aid

Economic aid to developing countries is an important—and often controversial—part of foreign policy for many Western nations. But how effective is such aid in achieving the objectives of the giver and the recipient? In this important study, Paul Mosley offers a challenging reassessment of the role of economic aid for nations on both sides of the equation. Mosley examines in detail the foreign aid programs of the leading Western powers with particular regard to the role of aid in international politics, and then examines the effectiveness of aid as a subsidy to exports, as an instrument of development, and as a means of redistributing income and bargaining power to the very poor. Mosley a...

Managing Water Under Uncertainty and Risk: United Nations World Water Development Report #4 (3 Vols.)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 913

Managing Water Under Uncertainty and Risk: United Nations World Water Development Report #4 (3 Vols.)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-01
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  • Publisher: UNESCO

Released every three years since March 2003, the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), a flagship UN-Water report published by UNESCO, has become the voice of the United Nations system in terms of the state, use and management of the world's freshwater resources. The report is primarily targeted at national decision-makers and water resource managers, but is also aimed at educating and informing a broader audience, from governments to the private sector and civil society. It underlines the important roles water plays in all social, economic and environmental decisions, highlighting policy implications across various sectors, from local and municipal to regional and international levels. Similarly to the first two editions, this report includes a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of several key challenge areas, such as water for food, energy and human health, and governance challenges such as institutional reform, knowledge and capacity-building, and financing, each produced by individual UN agencies.

IMF Programmes in Developing Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

IMF Programmes in Developing Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The International Monetary Fund is the centre of a global financial system that encourages budgetary discipline and full integration into world trade to facilitate development and alleviate poverty. Yet this policy 'conditionality' of the IMF is highly controversial. Critics state that fifty years of IMF existence has been 'fifty years too long', and that its doctrinaire policy must change or Fund programmes will have only limited ability to achieve their objectives. This book examines the arguments, tracing the extent of Fund adaptation, presenting major new evidence on the consequences of Fund programmes, and considering its future role.

IMF Lending to Developing Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

IMF Lending to Developing Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Recent years have seen IMF lending focusing almost exclusively on the developing world as richer countries have turned to more flexible sources of finance. This provides the first analysis of Fund lending and key changes needed for future success.

Land, Water and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Land, Water and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-09-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is a fully revised and expanded second edition of Malcolm Newson's acclaimed book. Exploring in greater depth the meaning of sustainability in river basin development this new edition: * highlights the rapid evolution of practical concepts since the Rio Earth Summit * features new illustrations and case studies from Australia, South Africa and Israel * makes the ecosystem model more explicit throughout * strengthens coverage of the linkages between land and water management.

Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security

In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has the potential to generate long-term benefits for developing countries, including enhanced technology and knowledge transfers and new fina- ing options supporting agricultural and economic development. However, risks of political and economic instability, increased inequality, and losses in agricultural income and production for countries that subsidize their agricultural and other e- nomic sectors threaten to offset potential benefits. Globalization can also have a profound impact on the water sector –...