Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect - Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity

Informationen zum Autor Larry A. Swatuk is a Professor in the School of Environment Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada and Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Lars Wirkus is a Researcher and Head of Section, Data and GIS at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Germany. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the policy debates surrounding water resources and climate actions through both theoretical and comparative case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Theorizing the Boomerang Effect 2. Nothing’s Always Perfect: Lessons from the Three Gorges Dam 3. Four Countries One Aquifer: The Guarani Aquifer and the Duty to Cooperate 4. Shifting Waters: Changing Water Discourses and the Farakka Barrage 5. The Belo Monte Dam: from local protest to national boomerang effect 6. An Assessment of UN-REDD in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam 7. ‘We have the right to do anything we like’: The Boomerang Effects of the Illisu Dam 8. Can Climate Change Challenges Unite a Divided Jordan River Basin 9. A Gendered Analysis of Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) as a Strategy for Strengthening Adaptive Capacity in Ghana’s Tolon District 10. Unintended Consequences of Dams and Water Security: An Insight into Women’s Vulnerability and the Spread of Malaria in Ethiopia

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• Authors: Larry (University of Waterloo Swatuk, Larry Wirkus Swatuk, Lars Swatuk Wirkus
• Assisted by: Larry Swatuk (Editor), Larry (University of Waterloo Swatuk (Editor), Larry A. Swatuk (Editor), Lars Wirkus (Editor), Lars (Bonn International Centre for Conversion Wirkus (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138556096
• ISBN: 978-1-138-55609-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management; Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs, environmental science, engineering & technology, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply