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As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our largely unintended pressures. In particular, large dams exert an array of profound effects on ecosystems and the services that they provide to society and this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate systems and technologies. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa The Hydropolitics of Dams charts its way through these troubled waters by looking at the history, benefits and down-sides of dams and alternative technologies practiced across the world, before exploring political, economic, legal and many other dimensions and concluding with an exploration of international water management policy.



Table of Contents:

Introduction

One Development, water and dams
1. Replumbing the modern world
2. Temples of the modern world
3. Stemming the flow
4. A changing mindset
5. The World Commission on Dams and beyond
6. The state of play with dams
7. Dams and ecosystem services
8. A new agenda for dams

Two Water in the postmodern world
9. Water in the postmodern world
10. Managing water at landscape scale
11. Catchment production and storage
12. Water flows through society
13. Markets for water services
14. Nature´s water infrastructure

Three Rethinking water and people
15. Living within the water cycle
16. Governance of water systems
17. Towards a new hydropolitics

Annexe: Principles for sustainable water sharing