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1 1997. With rivers to the sea: Interaction of land activities, fresh water and enclosed coastal seas: Abstracts, posters. Joint Conference - 7th Stockholm Water Symposium and the 3rd International Conference on the Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS), 10-15 August 1997, Stockholm, Sweden. 119p.
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2 Vajpeyi, D. K. (Ed.) 1998. Water resource management: A comparative perspective. Westport, CT, USA: Praeger Publishers. xii, 177p.
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3 Calvert, P.; Reader, M. 1998. Water resource management in Brazil. In Vajpeyi, D. K. (Ed.), Water resource management: A comparative perspective. Westport, CT, USA: Praeger Publishers. pp.71-92.
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4 Lee, T. R. 1979. Metropolitan growth and water management in Latin America. Natural Resources Forum, 3:401-416.
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‘The river was moved too close to my house!’ declared a soon-to-be-displaced resident following flood disaster in Brazil. Infrastructural engineering decades earlier had changed the river's course and led to the flooding of his home, yet the state now blamed a rainstorm for causing the disaster. The narrative of a natural event provided the pretext for urban governance based around evictions and further rounds of infrastructural engineering, nominally aimed at pre-empting a dangerous climate future. The paper takes the circumstances of this case to trigger a conceptual discussion on governance of the disaster event, narratives, and the promise of infrastructures to mitigate alarming urban futures. I draw on urban political ecology, the sociology of the event, and recent social studies of infrastructure, while also questioning understandings of eventful nature in the post-human turn. Tackling urban disaster risk, it is argued, depends on a political reframing of disasters as infrastructural events. This is a reflexive process that challenges how risks are produced through capitalist urbanisation, with the aim of making this longer temporality eventful for social change. A focus on politicised infrastructures reveals and disrupts dominant natural hazard narratives that remain integral to hazardous urban expansion.
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Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth explores how groundwater, often invisibly, improves peoples’ lives and livelihoods. This unique collection of 19 studies captures experiences of groundwater making a difference in 16 countries in Africa, South America and Asia. Such studies are rarely documented and this book provides a rich new collection of interdisciplinary analysis. The book is published in colour and includes many original diagrams and photographs.
Spring water, wells or boreholes have provided safe drinking water and reliable water for irrigation or industry for millennia. However, the hidden nature of groundwater often means that it’s important role both historically and in the present is overlooked. This collection helps fill this knowledge gap, providing a diverse set of new studies encompassing different perspectives and geographies. Different interdisciplinary methodologies are described that can help understand linkages between groundwater, livelihoods and growth, and how these links can be threatened by over-use, contamination, and ignorance.
Written for a worldwide audience of practitioners, academics and students with backgrounds in geology, engineering or environmental sciences; Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth is essential reading for those involved in groundwater and international development.
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