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This book assesses the implications of research for global water ethics and the idea of a water ethics charter.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Sydney, Sydney Law School, 2015) issued under title: Environmental water transactions under regulatory capitalism: the role of law.

This book investigates the water, land and energy nexus in the Nile basin.

With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another, and thereby to reveal the diverse ways in which human activity affects the planet.

This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water regime debate, by focusing on the results of these types of initiatives to provide better water services, particularly in urban settings.

This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally¿scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally.

Focusing on the concept of trans-jurisdictional water governance the book diagnoses barriers and identifies pathways to coherent and coordinated institutional arrangements between and across different bodies of laws at local, national, regional and international levels.

The central focus of this book is a critical comparative analysis of the key drivers for water resource management and the provision of clean water - governance systems and institutional and legal arrangements. Through a series of case studies it is shown how decision-making and implementation at the appropriate geographic and governmental scales can resolve conflicts and share best sustainable practices.

This book aims to provide a basin-wide analysis of the political, socio-economic and environmental perspectives of hydropower development in the Mekong Basin.

This book analyzes evidence from river basins around the world and identifies common barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate change through water resources management. Case studies are included from Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America. All chapters consider the crosscutting themes of institutional capacity, equity, and sustainability.