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Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building

Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building

Conca, Ken

Paperback

Series: Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability a

Real EstateEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0262532735
ISBN13: 9780262532730
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 30 2005
Pages: 486
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.32 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a source of contentious politics and social controversy on a global scale, and the management of water conflicts is one of the biggest challenges in the effort to achieve effective global environmental governance.

In Governing Water, Ken Conca examines political struggles to create a global framework for the governance of water. Threats to the world's rivers, watersheds, and critical freshwater ecosystems have resisted the establishment of effective global agreements through intergovernmental bargaining because the conditions for successful interstate cooperation--effective state authority, stable knowledge frameworks, and a territorialized understanding of nature--cannot be imposed upon water controversies. But while interstate water diplomacy has faltered, less formalized institutions--socially and politically embedded rules, roles, and practices--have emerged to help shape water governance locally and globally.

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