TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 51, Issue 1 (March 2008)
Water for People
Thematic Section: The Political Ecology of Water |
Dialogue: Water and Governance |
Local/Global Encounters: Water Rights, Water Management |
Window on the World: Organizing Water for People |
Book Review |
Book Shelf |
Who's Who |
Last Word: Water for All?
Upfront
Editorial: In Hot Water: The ecological politics of development
Sets out key political questions for environment and development policy and practice
Wendy Harcourt
Development 51: 1-4; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100469
Guest Editorial: The quest for water: Rethinking water scarcity
Outlines the core approach of this journal issue to water, people and development
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Development 51: 5-11; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100468
Interview: Water Across Boundaries/Peter P. Mollinga and Nimal Gunawardena in conversation with Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Discusses how to engage latest research on water with crucial policy questions in South Asia
Development 51: 12-16; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100461
Thematic Section: The Political Ecology of Water
'El Agua es de Todos/Water for All': Water resources and development in Uruguay
Shows how community action can make a difference in providing water for all
Javier Taks
Development 51: 17-22; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100464
Expanding Economic Perspectives for Sustainability in Urban Water and Sanitation
Presents ecological and Buddhist economic and sustainability approaches to water resources
Kumudini Abeysuriya, Cynthia Mitchell and Juliet Willetts
Development 51: 23-29; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100442
Politics and Urban Water Supply
Draws attention to the inherently political nature of urban water supply
Karen T Fisher
Development 51: 30-36; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100450
From the Groundwater Up: Asserting water rights in India
Argues that place-based oppositions continue to be important in water and development
Georgina Drew
Development 51: 37-41; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100443
Privatization and Citizenship: Local politics of water in the Philippines
Outlines how a community Philippine experience informs the wider debate on water privatizationand citizenship
Nai Rui Chng
Development 51: 42-48; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100444
Urbanization and Water Development in the Pacific Islands
Describes three archetypes for water development techno-centric, micro-credit and companion modelling
Magnus Moglia, Pascal Perez and Stewart Burn
Development 51: 49-55; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100451
Mainstreaming the Participatory Approach in Water Resource Governance: The 2002 water law in Kenya
Examines reforms that have been affected by the Water Act of 2002 in Kenya.
O A K'akumu
Development 51: 56-62; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100457
Does Increased Water Access Empower Women?
Looks at the gender dimension of water management
Saskia Ivens
Development 51: 63-67; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100458
Future Water Solutions for India
Examines the daunting challenges that future water-demand places on India
Himanshu Thakkar
Development 51: 68-71; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100463
Dialogue: Water and Governance
Water Struggles, Citizenship and Governance in Latin America
Makes key analytical distinctions for the study of water struggles in Latin America and elsewhere
José Esteban Castro
Development 51: 72-76; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100440
Institutionalizing the Informal: Irrigation and government intervention in Bali
Argues for strong local engagement and minimal formal organization of water projects
Stephan Lorenzen and Rachel P Lorenzen
Development 51: 77-82; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100441
From Community-based Management to Transboundary Watershed Governance
Advocates integrating community-based actions in watershed management
Sulan Chen
Development 51: 83-88; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100445
Collective Management Strategies and Elite Resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Reveals the challenges participatory management in public water and sanitation companies face in practice
Travis Driessen
Development 51: 89-95; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100453
Power and Policy Processes in Drinking Water Supply in Karnataka, India
Looks into the ways power is negotiated and resisted around water issues in urban India
Susanna Ghosh Mitra
Development 51: 96-101; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100466
Children's Right to Water as a Contested Domain: Gendered reflections from India
Presents children's water rights in India comparing the universal normative-legal framework with socio-cultural local realities
Nandita Singh, Per Wickenberg, Karsten Åström and Håkan Hydén
Development 51: 102-107; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100459
Local/Global Encounters: Water Rights, Water Management
A Vietnamese/Cambodian Transboundary Dialogue: Impacts of dams on the Se San River
Describes some of the struggles and achievements downstream communities of the Se San River in Cambodia
Ame Trandem
Development 51: 108-113; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100446
Modernity, Exclusion and Resistance: Water and indigenous struggles in Peru
Explores how big development projects challenge deeply rooted in local cultural norms and practices
Juana Vera Delgado and Margreet Zwarteveen
Development 51: 114-120; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100467
Pani Panchayat in Orissa, India: The practice of participatory water management
Argues that new policy interventions such ignores local socio-economic set up fails to ensure community participation
Basanta Kumar Sahu
Development 51: 121-125; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100448
Changing Household Water Rights in Rural Northern Ghana
Looks at how some policy concepts contradict pre-existing water rights
Irit Eguavoen
Development 51: 126-129; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100462
The Pitfalls of Irrigation Water Pricing in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Describes the reasons for problems in water use in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Jenniver Sehring
Development 51: 130-134; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100452
Water Scarcity Management in the MENA Region from a Globalization Perspective
Looks at the links between water and food security
Mounir Belloumi and Mohamed Salah Matoussi
Development 51: 135-138; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100449
Community-Based Management of Saltwater Country, Northern Australia
Samantha Muller
Development 51: 139-143; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100465
Window on the World: Organizing Water for People
Window on the World
Lists some of the key organization working on water
Compiled by Sonja Cappello, Sarah Ahmed and Naomi Carrard
Development 51: 144-153; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100455
Book Review
Nature's Due: Healing Our Fragmented Culture
Introduces a key writer on political ecology
Arturo Escobar
Development 51: 154-159; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100456
Book Shelf
Book Shelf
Reviews the latest books on water and development
Sonja Cappello, Kate Harriden, Yani Muryani and Eva Jane Haden
Development 51: 160-165; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100454
Who's Who
Who's Who
Lists the contacts for the contributors to this issue
Development 51: 166-171; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100470
