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Climate Change Management and Policy; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management

In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to policy transfer and institutional transplantation. This book aims to create a better understanding of such transfers in the water management sector. These include the adoption of modern water management concepts, such as integrated water resources management and forms of water governance, which are str.

This report summarizes and analyzes a series of four workshops held in February and March of 2011. The workshops were held in Penticton (BC), Edmonton (AB), Sydney (NS), and Sherbrooke (QC), with the aim of obtaining governmental and stakeholder input on the topic of collaborative water governance, particularly as it relates to the natural resource sectors and ongoing water policy change at the provincial scale.

Environmental Science and Engineering; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management; Geoecology/Natural Processes

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Water Insecurity and Urban Water Governance: Understanding the Context -- Introduction -- Water Insecurity -- Water Insecurity: Concept and Definition -- Urban Water Insecurity -- Measuring Water Insecurity -- Urban Poor and Water Insecurity -- Water Governance -- Water Governance: Concept and Definition -- Water Governance to Address Water Insecurity -- The Changing Paradigm of Water Access Urban Water Governance -- Water as a Public Good -- Water as an Economic Good -- Water as an Economic Good and Environmental Good -- Water as a Common Good -- Water (Access) as a Human Right -- Water as a Common Responsibility -- Application of Concepts in the Study: Creation of New Waterscapes by Water Access and Use -- References -- 2 Water Services and Water Infrastructure in Urban Africa -- Changing Mode of Urban Water Governance in Africa -- Challenges of Urban Water Governance in Africa: Vicious Cycle of Poor Water Service Provisions and Low Investment in Water Infrastructure -- Expansion of Water Infrastructure and Funding Gap -- Changing Role of Water Governance in Africa: Relationship Between State and Water Infrastructure -- Water Supply to Urban Poor in Africa -- References -- 3 Evolution of Urban Water Supply in Kenya -- 1900-1963: Initiation of Modern Urban Water Network and Its Expansion Under Colonial Power -- 1963-1973: Abolition of Colonial Restriction and Increase in Demand for Water Services -- 1973-1979: Era of Big Plans to the Beginning of Debt Accumulation -- 1979-1990: Era of Basic Needs Approach to Total Insolvency of Water Sector -- 1990-1999: The Era of Privatization and Pay-For-Service Approach -- 1999-present: Towards Private-Sector Participation and Government's Role as Facilitator.

This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy. It adopts a multidisciplinary variety of perspectives and considers local, basin, provincial and national scales. Canada?s leading authorities from the social sciences, life and natural sciences address pressing water issues in a non-technical language, making them accessible to a wide audience. Even though Canada is seen as a water-rich country, with 7% of the world?s reliable flow of freshwater and many of the world?s largest rivers, the country nevertheless faces a number of significant water-related challenges, stemming in part from supply-demand imbalances but also a range of water quality issues. Against the backdrop of a water policy landscape that has changed significantly in recent years, this book therefore seeks to examine water-related issues that are not only important for the future of Canadian water management but also provide insights into transboundary management, non-market valuation of water, decentralized governance methods, the growing importance of the role of First Nations peoples, and other topics in water management that are vital to many jurisdictions globally. The book also presents forward-looking approaches such as resilience theory and geomatics to shed light on emerging water issues. Researchers, students and those directly involved in the management of Canadian waters will find this book a valuable source of insight. In addition, this book will appeal to policy analysts, people concerned about Canadian water resources specifically as well as global water issues.

This book explores water service provisions of the urban poor in the cities of Africa with particular emphasis on Kenya and its capital city of Nairobi. In particular the book addresses the insecurity of tenure, and how the colonial segregation of land continues to shape water access and service provision even today in Nairobi. The book seeks to understand how urban water management entails the "production of thirst" among the urban poor and documents how cultural norms, political commitments and seemingly mundane practices of water managers combine to exclude the poor from accessing water. Supporters of privatization argue that private companies may succeed where governments have failed in supplying water to the urban poor. The author takes a closer look at this argument, demonstrating the limitations of some of the current reforms whilst also exploring alternatives and solutions. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and practitioners working in this field. Dr. Anindita Sarkar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at Miranda House, University of Delhi, where she has been teaching since 2005. Her research is anchored at the intersection of development and environment and how technologies and policies of resource use and access shape spaces. .

This book explores water service provisions of the urban poor in the cities of Africa with particular emphasis on Kenya and its capital city of Nairobi. In particular the book addresses the insecurity of tenure, and how the colonial segregation of land continues to shape water access and service provision even today in Nairobi. The book seeks to understand how urban water management entails the "production of thirst" among the urban poor and documents how cultural norms, political commitments and seemingly mundane practices of water managers combine to exclude the poor from accessing water. Supporters of privatization argue that private companies may succeed where governments have failed in supplying water to the urban poor. The author takes a closer look at this argument, demonstrating the limitations of some of the current reforms whilst also exploring alternatives and solutions. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and practitioners working in this field. Dr. Anindita Sarkar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at Miranda House, University of Delhi, where she has been teaching since 2005. Her research is anchored at the intersection of development and environment and how technologies and policies of resource use and access shape spaces. .

The 1998 South African water reform is a good example of an attempt to democratize water resource management. It created new decentralised water management bodies and openly called for the participation of all individual water users. Yet, if the reform and discourses of the time unequivocally declared the intentions of the South African water law, the conditions surrounding the implementation of the reform left many grey areas in the materialisation of active user participation objectives, almost fifteen years after their adoption . The case of the small-scale irrigation schemes developed in the country's former Bantustans is particularly worrying .

The 1998 South African water reform is a good example of an attempt to democratize water resource management. It created new decentralised water management bodies and openly called for the participation of all individual water users. Yet, if the reform and discourses of the time unequivocally declared the intentions of the South African water law, the conditions surrounding the implementation of the reform left many grey areas in the materialisation of active user participation objectives, almost fifteen years after their adoption . The case of the small-scale irrigation schemes developed in the country's former Bantustans is particularly worrying .