Hydropower development has enormous economic, environmental, and social impacts at a local, national, and trans-national level. It has been suggested that transboundary water conflicts, such as those that may arise from hydropower development, may be addressed through benefit sharing. This study...

To choose better water investments we need to have a better appreciation of what is possible with improved governance, of how to identify improved governance, how to design institutions for it, and how to incorporate it into planning and investments. This paper reviews the theoretical and...

The world is entering a period of intense competition for limited supplies of water for alternative uses - in agriculture, in urban and industrial supplies, for recreation, by wildlife, for human consumption, and to maintain environmental quality. Manifestations of this competition and our...

Were water considered an industry, it would be one of the largest in the United States, surely the most capital-intensive, and the most closely regulated by Congress. Yet as Peter Rogers argues in this readable, pragmatic, and scientifically grounded assessment of national water issues, it would...

En el corto plazo, con apoyo del Banco, América Latina y el Caribe se preparan para elaborar un informe regional sobre financiamiento del agua a ser presentado a las agencias de financiamiento durante el Tercer Foro Mundial del Agua, a llevarse a cabo en 2003 en Kyoto. Para contribuir en este...

As cities around the world are re‐shaped by urban renewal policies underpinned by a concern with enhancing quality of life, tensions inevitably arise about whose quality of life is enhanced, and at whose expense? In this piece, Rogers and Coaffee critically interrogate the effects of quality...

To choose better water investments we need to have a better appreciation of what is possible with improved governance, of how to identify improved governance, how to design institutions for it, and how to incorporate it into planning and investments. This paper reviews the theoretical and...

En el corto plazo, con apoyo del Banco, América Latina y el Caribe se preparan para elaborar un informe regional sobre financiamiento del agua a ser presentado a las agencias de financiamiento durante el Tercer Foro Mundial del Agua, a llevarse a cabo en 2003 en Kyoto. Para contribuir en este...

Critical analysis of participatory community development has claimed that such approaches serve as a vehicle for social control and co-option by external actors. Drawing on a case study from Southern Thailand, this article argues that we need to take a less deterministic perspective, and pay...