As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified. In this context, this book examines the role of the ambivalent state in local struggles for water, which are deeply intertwined with...

Blue sky thinking in water governance: understanding the role of the imagination in Australian water policy / Louise Noble, Stephen Harris and Graham Marshall -- Aboriginal rainmakers: a twentieth century phenomenon / Lorina L. Barker -- "Like manna from heaven?": just water, history and the...

Bulk fresh water resources and the Gatt -- Environmental and human rights concerns -- Productivity meets sustainability -- Irrigation subsidies and the agreement on agriculture -- Water-footprint PPMS, the GATT and the TBT agreement -- Water-footprint labelling schemes and the TBT agreement

Scarcity, droughts, and the gap to be filled by water markets -- Market failures and governmental roles -- Roadmap to the case studies -- California's water markets -- Spanish water markets -- Comparison between water markets in California and in Spain

"This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state's largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called "exchange contractors" retain paramount water...

Bei dem Bemühen, die Berücksichtigung von Umwelt- und Ressourcenkosten (URK) gemäß Art. 9 WRRL praktisch umzusetzen, werden im Schrifttum immer wieder zwei "Vereinfachungen" angesprochen, um die als außerordentlich schwierig eingeschätzte URK-Ermittlung und -Anlastung praxistauglich zu...

Art. 9 of the European Water Framework Directive requires of the Member States up to 2010 a national pricing policy for water-related services that ensures full cost-recovery including environmental and resource costs. The WFD's cost-recovery of water services aims at setting efficient...

Water scarcity, urban population growth, and deteriorating infrastructure impact water security around the globe. As California wrestles with the most significant drought in its recorded history, struggling to secure reliable water supplies for the future, it faces all of these crises. The story...

We analyse the redistribution of a resource among agents who have claims to the resource and who are ordered linearly. A well known example of this particular situation is the river sharing problem. We exploit the linear order of agents to transform the river sharing problem to a sequence of...

"Co-management is a highly dynamic, evolving, adaptive, and forward looking process. This edited volume covers theoretical background and includes supporting lessons learnt from field experiences. The book has case studies from both North and South America (co-management of fisheries, resilience...