Water Conflicts
Analysis for Transformation
Mark Zeitoun author Jeroen Warner author Naho Mirumachi author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:22nd Jun '20
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Water Conflicts applies cutting-edge thinking to identify pathways that can transform complex water conflicts. It challenges existing power-blind and politics-lite analysis that is very deeply-held and recurring in debates that suggest causal links between scarcity and violence-or peace. This book presents a much needed revision of transboundary water analysis, leading to a rethink on the way water is used and contested, with a focus on harm experienced both by the most vulnerable water users and the environment. Recognizing that conflicts are never static, Mark Zeitoun, Naho Mirumachi, and Jeroen Warner's "transformative analysis" provides multi-disciplinary tools and perspectives to understand and address the complexities involved. The approach is stress-tested through dozens of examples around the globe, and it incorporates collective evidence and knowledge of the London Water Research Group. The insights on water diplomacy will be most welcome by analysts, activists, diplomats, and all others tackling water conflicts. Seeking to motivate improvement of transboundary water arrangements towards further equity and sustainability as a practical agenda, the book is a fresh antidote to the detached role that researchers and policymakers often play.
The case for transboundary water governance is easy enough to accept, but an adequate level of cooperation is extraordinarily difficult to achieve. This makes Zeitoun, Mirumachi, and Warner's critical analysis a must read for anyone concerned about the looming global water crisis and the frightening consequences of global warming. * Danilo Türk, Former President of the Republic of Slovenia and Chairman of the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace (2015-2017) *
The authors of this volume placed political, social, and moral issues at the forefront of water governance studies. Well-meaning efforts toward transboundary water cooperation have often fizzled out throughout the world because of the premature pursuit of an overly technocratic approach. Without prior hydro-diplomacy capable of articulating underlying fears, scientific modeling alone achieves little. This book points negotiators and scholars in the right direction. * Dipak Gyawali, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology and Former Minister of Water Resources *
Everyone speaks about water conflicts. This book is about their transformation. Mark Zeitoun, Naho Mirumachi, and Jeroen Warner offer a hands-on transformative analysis approach that takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from understanding the manifold layers of water conflict to identifying innovative resolution pathways for change. A must read for all those who care about equitable and sustainable transboundary water governance. * Eileen Hofstetter, TheBluePeace.org *
ISBN: 9780190864088
Dimensions: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
Weight: 431g
204 pages