A History of Water, Series I: Volume 2: The Political Economy of Water

by R. Coopey, Terje Tvedt

Overview

These three volumes present an original exploration of all aspects of water—social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological—from ancient times until the present day. Among the varied themes, the contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good, the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level, water in cities, great river plans, dams, river biographies, and cultural constructions of water—images of water in religion, myth, literature and art. With empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world the three volumes together represent one of the most complete and up to date accounts of the central role of water in the history and development of humanity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850434467
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/28/2006
Series:	History of Water Series , #2
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and has been Professor of Political Science and of Global History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published extensively on water-related topics. His books include The River Nile in the Age of the British (2004), A Jourbaney in the Future of Water (2013), and he is the Series Editor of the pioneering History of Water series. He has also made three award-winning TV-documentaries on water: A Jourbaney in the History of Water, The Future of Water and The Nile Quest.

Table of Contents

VOLUME II: Urban and Local Water Politics
• Water Supply in Spain: A Service Between Private Firms and Municipal Control--J.M. Mates
• The Pipe-Bound City in Time and Space: Applying GIS to the Historical Development of Two Swedish Cities and Their Water and Sewage Systems--T. Schmid and J. Hallstrom
• Inequities in Urban Supply in India: A Study of Municipal Towns in Andhra Pradesh--C. Ramachandraiah
• Water Politics and Control: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives--T. Ruf
• Social Movements and Conflicts Over Water in Mexico--P. Avila Garcia
• Inequality and Social Exclusion in the Access to Drinking Water: The City of Cochambamba, Bolivia--C. Ledo
• National Water Politics
• Wittfogel and Hydraulic Despotism--N. Brown
• Reshaping the Political: Factorising the Nile Waters in the Sudan--H.M. El Zain
• Water Resources and Racial Inequality in South-West Africa--J.B. Forrest
• British Colonial Water Legislation: The Case of Mandatory Palestine--K. Gaarde
• A Retreat From Centralized Water Management? the Israeli Case--E. Feitelson
• Water and Transforming Agriculture in Bulgaria--M. Ilieva & I. Iliev
• Market Oriented Sustainable Water Resources Management in China--M. Xianqiang
• The Role of Irrigation in State Formation in Ancient Korea--B.W. Kang
• The Role of Irrigation in the Historical Development of Central Asia--V. Umarov and V. Dukhovny
• Cambodia's Development and Its Water and Other Natural Resources: An Historical Perspective--S. Acharya and C. Sophal
• Gender, Poverty and Water: Inclusion and Exclusion in Pakistan--M. Khan-Tirmizi
• International Hydropolitics
• The Nile As a Legal and Political Structure--J.W. Delapennea
• The Nile Basin: Predicaments of Upstream-Downstream Cooperation: Prospects For 21st Century--Y. Arsano
• The 1944 Water Treaty between Mexico and the USA: Present Situation and Future Potential--A. Sanchez
• Developing Lesotho's Water Resources: The Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme.--M. Thabane
• Great Lakes Fisheries: International Response to the Decline of the Fisheries and the Lemprey/Alewife Invasion--P.V. Scarpino
• Energy and Environmental Security: The Dyr Darya Crisis of Central Asia--K. Lang
• Fish Versus Power: Science and Society on the Fraser River--M. Evenden
• Water Law and Legal Issues
• Governing Water Quality: Industrial Waste Disposal and Riparian Law in 19th Century USA--J. Paavola
• Traditional and Contemporary Urban Water Use in a Kathmandu Valley--A. Regmi
• Water As Property in the American West--R.B.Neaser & M.G. Smith
• Local Availability of Water and Groundwater Rights in Mexico--G.V. Dyrnes
• Theoretical Issues * My Land, My Water, Your Problem: Co-Evolutionary Processes and the Development of Water Policy Tools--P. Jeffrey, M. Lemon & B. Jefferson