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Informationen zum Autor Jeroen Warner is Assistant Professor of Disaster Studies at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has written extensively on the politics of water and is editor of 'Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Catchment Management' and co-editor of 'The Politics of Water'. In the wake of floods, the pressure to initiate flood protection schemes that will provide security is enormous, and politicians promise quick solutions in the national interest. This book examines such projects from around the world - the Middle East, South Asia and Western Europe - aimed at the prevention of serious flooding. Zusammenfassung In the wake of floods, the pressure to initiate flood protection schemes that will provide security is enormous, and politicians promise quick solutions in the national interest. This book examines such projects from around the world - the Middle East, South Asia and Western Europe - aimed at the prevention of serious flooding. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the politics of flood and fear2. Midnight at Noon? The tussle over Toshka, Egypt3. Resisting the Turkish Pax Aquarum? The Ilisu Dam Dispute4. Turkey & Egypt: War , Peace and Hegemony5. Death of the mega-Project? The Contoversy over Fllod Action Plan 20, Bangladesh6. The Maaswerken Project: Fixing a Hole?7. Public Participation in Emergency River Storage: The Ooij Polder 8. The Jubilee Rover: Flood Alleviation or Flood Creation Scheme?9. The Politics of Six River Interventions : A Synthesis10. The Securitization of Flood Events: Implications for Security Analysis Index
