Water Ethics: A Values Approach to Solving the Water Crisis / Edition 2

by David Groenfeldt

Overview

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Water Ethics continues to consolidate water ethics as a key dimension of water-related decisions.

The book introduces the idea that ethics are an intrinsic dimension of any water policy, program, or practice, and that understanding what ethics are being acted out in water policies is fundamental to an understanding of water resource management. Alongside updated references and the introduction of discussion questions and recommended further reading, this new edition discusses in depth three significant developments since the publication of the first edition in 2013. The first is the growing awareness of the climate crisis as an existential threat, and associated concern about adaptive strategies for sustainable water management and ways of using water management for climate mitigation (e.g., practically through agricultural soil management and conceptually through ethics awareness). Second, there has been increased clarity among the religious community, Indigenous leaders, and progressive academics that ethics needs to become an arena for application and action (e.g., the Vatican encyclical Laudato Si, protests at Standing Rock and Flint, Michigan, in the US, and climate demonstrations worldwide). Thirdly, there have been new normative water standards ranging from "water stewardship" (industry initiative), water charters (Berlin) and the on-going initiative to develop a global water ethics charter.

Drawing on case studies from countries including Australia, India, the Philippines, South Africa, and the United States, this textbook is essential reading for students of environmental ethics and water governance and management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815392026
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Series:	Earthscan Water Text
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Groenfeldt is the founder and Director of the Water-Culture Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA. He has previously worked on irrigation research at the International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka), the design and management of irrigation projects for the World Bank, and rural development consulting for various international agencies. He is also the co-editor of Global Water Ethics (Routledge, 2017).

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction to Water Ethics 2. Managing Rivers 3. Ethics of Agricultural Water Use 4. Ethics in Urban and Domestic Water Use 5. Water for Industry: What is Ethical Use? 6. The Ethics of Water Governance 7. Indigenous Water Ethics 8. Charting a New Water Ethics References

Editorial Reviews

"...this is a welcome addition to a literature that needs to grow, and it is clearly worth reading." – Helen Ingram, in Water Alternatives (2014), Volume 7, Issue 1.

"This remarkable work explores the normative value foundations of water management... Summing Up: Essential. Natural resource and environmental studies collections, upper-division undergraduate through professional." – B.F. Hope, California State University, in Choice (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries), March 2014.

"David Groenfeldt, founder and Director of the Water-Culture Institute in New Mexico and an anthropologist with experience in irrigation projects in Asia, has written what is to my knowledge the first single-authored book on water ethics... an important contribution" - Dr Rafael Ziegler, University of Greifswald, Germany, in Environmental Values

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