E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten
Poupeau / Gupta / Serrat-Capdevila Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4987-7699-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten
Reihe: UNESCO-IHE Lecture Note Series
ISBN: 978-1-4987-7699-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
As the American Southwest faces its deepest drought in history, this book explores the provocative notion of "water bankruptcy" with a view to emphasize the diversity and complexity of water issues in this region. It bridges between the narratives of growth and the strategies or policies adopted to pursue competing agendas and circumvent the inevitable. A window of opportunity provided by this current long-term drought may be to induce change by dealing with threats that derive from imbalances between growth patterns and available resources, the primary cause of scarcity.
A first of its kind, this book was developed through close collaboration of a broad range of natural scientists, social scientists, and resource managers from Europe and United States. It constitutes a collective elaboration of a transdisciplinary approach to unveiling the inner workings of how water is fought for, allocated and used in the American Southwest, with a focus on Arizona. Specifically, it offers an innovative scientific perspective that produces a critical diagnostic evaluation of water management, with a particular view to identifying risks for the Tucson region that is facing continuous urban sprawl and economical growth.
The book presents a diversity of complementary perspectives, including a statement of natural resources, biodiversity and their management, an analysis of water policy and its history, and a statement of ecosystem services in the context of both local biodiversity and also the economic activities that sustain economic growth. Finally, it presents a concerted effort to explore the interplay between a variety of related scientific disciplines and frameworks including climatology, hydrology, water management, ecosystem services, societal metabolism, political economy and social science.
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Introduction - Project and framework
Introduction
Human natural history of Southwestern US
A Socio-Historical Perspective on Water Policy
- Rivers and Dams of the American Empire. Sociology of the Environment and the Sphere of Power
- The Policy Coalitions of the Central Arizona Project. A Socio-historical Perspective on Water Management in the Arid West
- Laws of the River: Contribution for a Sociology of the Field of Water Management in Arizona
Current perspectives: Ecosystems & Their Dependence on Water Management
- Water uses in the Tucson basin: Implications of a spatially neutral groundwater management
- Tucson Groundwater Dynamics. How is it Affected by Natural Drought?
- Water Management and Biodiversity Conservation: the Role of Biodiversity in the Hydrological Cycle in Tucson Basin - a Review
- Quantification of Water-related Ecosystem Services in the Upper Santa Cruz Watershed, Arizona, USA
- Mapping Ecosystem Services Supply and Demand for Policy and Practice – Qualitative Assessment in Pantano Wash Watershed (Tucson basin, AZ)
- Application of InVEST Model for Mapping and Assessment of Erosion Regulation Ecosystem Services in Santa Cruz Watershed
- Implication of GIS and Spatial Data Infrastructures in Sustainable Water Management
- A Comparative Analysis of Stakeholder Engagement in Water Management between Tucson Basin (AZ) and Ebro basin (SP)
Narratives of economic & urban growth
- Challenges of Urban Growth, Water and Wastewater
- The Social Logic of Urban Sprawl in Arizona
- Urban comprehensive planning. Evaluation and Monitoring Mechanisms Related to Water for the Tucson Plan.
- Impact of urban growth on climate and ecosystem services
- Integrating Political Ecology and Ecosystem Services
Conclusion – Bringing all the Stories Together
- A Collective Attempt towards Transdisciplinary
- Implications to Politics & Recommendations
