Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal ComplexityDik Roth, Rutgerd Boelens, Margreet Zwarteveen Rutgers University Press, 2005 - 313 pages Water management plays an increasingly critical role in national and international policy agendas. Growing scarcity, overuse, and pollution, combined with burgeoning demand, have made socio-political and economic conflicts almost unavoidable. Proposals to address water shortages are usually based on two key assumptions: (1) water is a commodity that can be bought and sold and (2) "states," or other centralized entities, should control access to water. Liquid Relations criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective. Eleven case studies examine laws, distribution, and irrigation in regions around the world, including the United States, Nepal, Indonesia, Chile, Ecuador, India, and South Africa. In each case, problems are shown to be both ecological and human-made. The essays also consider the ways that gender, ethnicity, and class differences influence water rights and control. In the concluding chapter, the editors draw on the essays' findings to offer an alternative approach to water rights and water governance issues. By showing how issues like water scarcity and competition are embedded in specific resource use and management histories, this volume highlights the need for analyses and solutions that are context-specific rather than universal. |
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Contents
Legal Complexity in the Analysis of Water Rights | 1 |
Prescribing Gender Equity? The Case of | 21 |
Defending Indigenous Water Rights with the Laws | 44 |
Balinese Irrigation | 66 |
Rise and Fall | 124 |
Recognition and Denial of Diversity | 144 |
Social Differentiation | 172 |
Redressing Racial Inequities through Water Law in South | 195 |
Routes to Water Rights | 215 |
Analyzing Water Rights Multiple Uses and Intersectoral | 237 |
Beyond Analysis | 254 |
References | 269 |
Notes on the Contributors | 293 |
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