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The Political Economy of Urban Water Security under Climate Change

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265 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am16.07.20221st ed. 2022
In this collection, we compare and contrast the challenges and opportunities for achieving urban water security with a focus on 11 major world cities: Bangalore, Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Chennai, Istanbul, Jakarta, London, Melbourne, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.mehr
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KlappentextIn this collection, we compare and contrast the challenges and opportunities for achieving urban water security with a focus on 11 major world cities: Bangalore, Beijing, Cairo, Cape Town, Chennai, Istanbul, Jakarta, London, Melbourne, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Avoiding Day Zero´: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Water for Megacities.- Chapter 2: São Paulo´s Water System: A Megacity´s efforts to fight water scarcity.- Chapter 3: Challenges for Urban Water Security in London and Cape Town.- Chapter 4: A Megacity´s Hydrological Risk: An analysis of water security issues in Jakarta City, Indonesia.- Chapter 5: Creating Water-Secure Futures in Megacities: A Comparative Case Study of Day Zero´ Cities - Bangalore and Chennai.- Chapter 6: A Pathway for Beijing: Avoiding Day Zero´.- Chapter 7: Confronting the System: An Exploration of the Water Security Crisis in Melbourne.- Chapter 8: MENA Megacities Approaching Day Zero: A Comparative Study Between Cairo and Istanbul.- Chaptet 9: Achieving urban water security in Tokyo.- Chapter 10: Toward Sustainability, Away from Collapse: Challenges for Twenty-first Century Megacities.mehr

Autor

Larry Swatuk is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He has lived and worked in different parts of Africa over more than 37 years beginning with a 6 month visit to Lesotho in 1984. Between 1989-96 he was a Research Fellow, National University of Lesotho; Visiting Scholar, University of Swaziland; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University; and Senior Research Fellow at ACDESS in Nigeria. From 1996-2007 he was a Lecturer in Politics and Associate Professor of Natural Resources Governance at the University of Botswana. Currently, His research focuses primarily on freshwater governance and management in the Global South.


Corrine Cash is an Assistant Professor of Planning and Community Climate Adaptation in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.



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