Bréthaut, Christian
A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends
1. Taking Up Practical and Intellectual Challenges Posed by International Water Management Trends: Some Introductory Remarks
Christian Bréthaut, Rémi Schweizer
2. Avoiding the Commons Trap: An Exploration of Local Community Governance of Water in Valais, Switzerland
Rémi Schweizer
3. Integrated Water Resources Management as a Compromise: Renewing the Water Act in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Arnaud Buchs
4. Transboundary Water Management: From Geopolitics to a Non-state Analytical Perspective: The Case of the Rhône River
Christian Bréthaut
5. From Multi-level Governance to Scalar Politics: Water Community Networks Challenging Neo-Extractivist Governmental Institutions in Ecuador
Emilie Dupuits
6. Exploring the Democratic Legitimacy of Privatization in the Water Sector: Two Cases in Switzerland
Eva Lieberherr
7. Governing Water with Market-Based Instruments: Preferences and Skepticism in Switzerland
Florence Metz, Philip Leifeld
8. Climate Change Adaptation as a New Global Norm in the Water Sector? Between Symbolism and Dilution
Johann Dupuis
9. Water Security as a Normative Goal or as a Structural Principle for Water Governance
Thomas Bolognesi, Stéphane Kluser
10. Politicizing the Water-Energy Nexus: Hydropower and Instream Values in Two Swiss Cantons’ Water Strategies
Luc Tonka
11. From the Promises of International Water Management Trends to the Reality of Policies and Practices: Some Conclusive Thoughts
Rémi Schweizer, Christian Bréthaut
Keywords: Environment, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Geography, Hydrology/Water Resources, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy
- Editor
- Bréthaut, Christian
- Schweizer, Rémi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Water Governance: Policy and Practice
- Page amount
- 11 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137600868
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-60085-1