Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development: Conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia

by Arsel; Murat

• ISBN13: 9780415461610
• ISBN10: 0415461618
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. Using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop, the chapters in this volume combine solid empirical investigation with critical analysis of key concepts such as 'scarcity', 'expert knowledge', and 'efficiency'. The central theme emerging from the contributions emphasizes the need to reevaluate accepted wisdom in resource studies that considers distributional conflicts over water usage as inherently zero-sum outcomes in which one player's gains inevitably correspond to another player's losses. Instead, the empirical and critical analyses in this book demonstrate that effective management of water resources can be re-conceptualized as the basis for regional cooperation and sustainable rural development.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. x
Notes on contributors	p. xii
Preface	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Follow the water	p. 3
Transformation of water regimes	p. 19
Water, war and reconstruction irrigation management in the Kunduz region, Afghanistan	p. 21
Political ecology of marshland restoration in Iraq	p. 49
Wells, water rights and sustain ability: new policies and practices on Mongolia's pastoral commons	p. 75
'Adapting to demands': allocation, scheduling and delivery of irrigation water in Khorezm, Uzbekistan	p. 99
Waterscapes of conflict and cooperation	p. 123
Water and geopolitics in Central Asia	p. 125
Conflict and cooperation in the South Caucasus: the Kura-Araks Basin of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia	p. 144
'Have your cake and eat it too': agenda-setting in Central Asian transboundary rivers	p. 175
Institutional change, cooperation and conflict in two Central Asian river basins	p. 191
Re-stating water management	p. 213
The politics of Kyrgyz water policy	p. 215
Cotton, environment and poverty in Uzbekistan	p. 234
Water in Turkmenistan	p. 250
Conclusion	p. 267
Securing the future, democratizing development: the role of water	p. 269
Index	p. 276
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