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Water Rights And Empowerment

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Author : Rutgerd Boelens
language : en
Publisher: Uitgeverij Van Gorcum
Release Date : 2002

Water Rights And Empowerment written by Rutgerd Boelens and has been published by Uitgeverij Van Gorcum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Natural resources categories.

Flowing Upstream

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Author : Sara Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Foundation Books
Release Date : 2005-01-13

Flowing Upstream written by Sara Ahmed and has been published by Foundation Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-13 with Business & Economics categories.

Empowering Society

Water Security Across The Gender Divide

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Author : Christiane Fröhlich
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-05

Water Security Across The Gender Divide written by Christiane Fröhlich and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Social Science categories.

This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities: it depends not only on natural water availability, but also on the respective socio-political context. It is regulated by gender-differentiated roles and responsibilities towards the resource, which are strongly influenced by, among others, tradition, religion, customary law, geographical availability, as well as the historical and socio-political context. While gender has been recognized as a key intervening variable in achieving equitable water access, most studies fail to acknowledge the deep interrelations between social structures and patterns of water use. Proof of these shortcomings is the enduring lack of data on water accessibility, availability and utilization that sufficiently acknowledges the relational nature of gender and other categories of power and difference, like class and socioeconomic status, as well as their comprehensive analysis. This book addresses this major research gap.

Taking Stock Of Progress Towards Gender Equality In The Water Domain

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Author : UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-01

Taking Stock Of Progress Towards Gender Equality In The Water Domain written by UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme and has been published by UNESCO Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Political Science categories.

Flowing Upstream Empowering Women Through Water Management Initiatives In India

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Author : Sara Ahmed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-01-01

Flowing Upstream Empowering Women Through Water Management Initiatives In India written by Sara Ahmed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.

In a world fraught with visions of an impending 'water crisis' it is not surprising that the main barrier to achieving the Millennium Goals of Development of water, sanitation and hygiene, for all, is not seen as a lack of willingness to learn from the past, to acknowledge failure and success and respect the diversity of approaches and social actors. this book brings together five in-depth case studies of civil society interventions from different parts of India which have struggled to resolve issues of women's participation, equity and sustainability in community based water management systems. From the water scarce areas of coastal Gujarat where UTTHAN has been promoting decentralized and gender equitable water alternatives to the SEWA campaign on women, water and work, and AKRSP(I)'s attempts to involve women farmers in participatory irrigation management interventions in adivasi dominated South Gujarat, from community lift-irrigation schemes in Jharkhand managed by women's group promoted by PRADAN, to SOPPECOM's efforts in facilitating rights to water and land for women and the landless in Maharashtra, the case studies illustrate that the process of negotiating change of, 'flowing upstream' is indeed messy, complicated and complex. Emerging insights while located in a specific socio-economic, political and cultural context provide a menu of essential but not necessarily sufficient, ingredients towards a strategy for mainstreaming gender and equity rights in water management. Together, the cases raise important questions on the social construction of water policy in India, the gendered structure of facilitating organizations, networking and the role of learning in developing accountable and socially inclusive governance mechanisms for managing our natural resources.

Water Rights And Empowerment

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Author : Rutgerd Boelens
language : en
Publisher: Uitgeverij Van Gorcum
Release Date : 2002

Negotiating Water Rights

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Author : Bryan Randolph Bruns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Negotiating Water Rights written by Bryan Randolph Bruns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Conflict management categories.

This Book Uses Case Studies From Across The Globe To Identity The Range Of Water Rights And Bases For Claims On The Resources; Present Local Experiences In Negotiating Water Rights In The Context Of Growing Water Scarcity And Competition; And Discuss Opportunities To Empower Farmers In Water Resource Management.

The Human Right To Water

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Author : Inga Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-14

The Human Right To Water written by Inga Winkler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Law categories.

The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State obligations. The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the most basic needs of all people. The human right to water has the potential to address these underlying structural causes of the lack of access to water rooted in inequalities and poverty by empowering people to hold the State accountable to live up to its human rights obligations and to demand that their basic needs are met with priority.

Rights Rivers And The Quest For Water Commons The Case Of Bangladesh

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Author : Imtiaz Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-04-09

Rights Rivers And The Quest For Water Commons The Case Of Bangladesh written by Imtiaz Ahmed and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-09 with Political Science categories.

Right to water may sound novel and somewhat dramatic, yet it has been central to the quest of human civilization for thousands of years. One of the earliest references to water as ‘common property’ can be found in the Jewish laws as early as 3000 BCE.Similar views are also found in Islam. In fact, the Arabic word for Islamic law - shari’ah - originally meant “the place from which one descends to water.”Since water is a gift from the divine to all living beings, sharing water is regarded as holy duty. This is found across religions, regions, societies, and communities, from New Zealand to Nigeria, from Bangladesh to Brazil. But then, what transformed the divine sanction? What led to the negation of the ‘commons,’ with sharing of the riverine water across territorial boundaries suffering the most?The answer probably lies as much as in the politics of safeguarding one’s personal or national interests as it is in the limitations imposed by our disciplinary understanding of things.In this context, a thorough reexamination, even reconceptualization,of some of the core issuesis required.Firstly, the concept of water needs to be understood not as H2O, as it is done in physical sciences,but as H2OP4. That is, the meaning of water in social sciences must include not only ‘twice hydrogen plus oxygen’ but also four P’s - pollution, power, politics and profit. This is not to discount the ‘science’ in the conceptualization of water but rather to add elements central to social sciences.Secondly, the concept of river needs to be redefined and understood not as a carrier of water, as assumedin most of theWestern languages, but as ‘nadi,’ a flow consisting of prana (life), shakti (power), and atman (soul), as etymologically definedin most of the South Asian languages. This comes closer to what critical hydrologists would say, WEBS, that is, a ‘river’ consists of water, energy, biodiversity and sediment. In this light, any fragmentation of transboundary river waterin the name of ‘sharing’becomes an unworkable option, unless of course a mechanism is found to ‘share’the water of the river along with its energy, biodiversity and sediment, and that again, without distorting and harming the life of the river!Thirdly, the subject of ‘water commons’needs to be approached from the standpoint of ‘rights’ of both human andriver. This is to flag the notion that nature, including rivers, has ‘rights’just like humans, although their manifestations may be different. In fact, empowered humans, particularly those in control of the state, have more ‘responsibility’ than ‘rights’ in dissuading themselves and others from creating conditions of human wrongs, not only against fellow human beings but also against nature.Finally, if the ‘rights’ ofhumans are to be ensuredthen there is an urgent need to reconceptualize and mainstream the human as a multiverse being. This is because humans are not only political beings but also economic, cultural, ecological, technological, and psychological beings. In this light, if conflicts are to be contained then humans need to be empowered in all possible areasof life – politics, economics, ecology, culture, technology, and psychology. This would certainly require empowering each and every person, all at the same time receptive to nature in general and rivers in particular.The book is designed to initiate a discourse on the civilizational quest for water commons, indeed, with the expectation that a discussion on rights and rivers would lead to a creative flow of ideas and practices.

Diverting The Flow

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Author : Margreet Zwarteveen
language : en
Publisher: Zubaan
Release Date : 2014-03-11

Diverting The Flow written by Margreet Zwarteveen and has been published by Zubaan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-11 with Social Science categories.

Across the South Asian region, water determines livelihoods and in some cases even survival. However, water also creates exclusions. Access to water, and its social organisation, are intimately tied up with power relations. This book provides an overview of gender, equity and water issues relevant to South Asia. The essays empirically illustrate and theoretically argue how gender intersects with other axes of social difference such as class, caste, ethnicity, age and religion to shape water access, use and management practices. Divided into six thematic sections, each of which starts with an introduction of relevant concepts, debates and theories, the book looks at laws and rights; policies; technologies and intervention strategies. In all, the book clearly shows how understanding and changing the use, distribution and management of water is conditional upon understanding and accommodating gender relations. Published by Zubaan.

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