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Science, Technology and Water Scarcity
Water scarcity has emerged as a potential 'global crisis' with serious implications for food security, human health and social and economic development. The UN estimates that 2.7 billion people will face water scarcity by 2025. Against a growing alarmism around 'water wars', solutions have been framed to address 'water governance' due to a perceived lack of efficient public sector management.
1 August 2003
The Rural Poor, the Private Sector and Markets: Changing Interactions in Southern Africa
Published by: IDS
One of the central tenets of much current development thinking in southern Africa is that market-oriented strategies and private sector involvement must be the basis for future economic growth.
1 February 2003
Problems of Publicness and Access Rights: Perspectives from the Water Domain
Published by: Oxford University Press
Evaluates the concept of global public goods in terms of its usefulness for guiding debates on people's access to freshwater resources, and argues that more attention needs to be paid to two issues—first, the divergence of perception of the nature of the good and of how it should be accessed and delivered; second, the disparity of power of different actors in determining its distribution.
1 January 2003
Politics And Provision: On-the-Ground Realities of Water and Sanitation Development
Published by: IDS
Addressing the challenge of water and sanitation under-provision requires a subtle understanding of several factors: the nature of the...
1 January 2003
1 January 2003
Decentralisations in Practice in Southern Africa
Published by: IDS
Decentralisation, like good governance or sustainable development, is one of those concepts everyone from the World Bank to top...
1 January 2003
1 January 2003
Rights Talk and Rights Practice: Challenges for Southern Africa
Published by: IDS
“Rights-based approaches” are increasingly seen as a core component of development by donors, NGOs and governments alike (see, for...
1 January 2003
Assessing Gender Impacts
Published by: Edward Elgar Publishing
Chapter 11 in The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment: This Handbook outlines a new understanding and definition of SIA and, as such, will be an invaluable reference tool for both practitioners and scholars at different levels working in the fields of SIA and environmental studies (including both impact assessment and management).