pt. 1 INTRODUCTION --
1. The Political Dimensions of Water / Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal --
pt. 2 POVERTY, RIGHTS, AND ETHICS --
2. Water and Poverty: Pathways of Escape and Descent / Ben Crow and Brent M. Swallow --
3. Knowing Equity When We See It: Water Equity in Contemporary Global Contexts / Margaret Wilder and Helen Ingram --
4. Gender and Water / Barbara van Koppen --
5. Monitoring the Progressive Realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis to Enhance Human Rights Accountability / Benjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Catarina de Albuquerque, and Jamie Bartram --
6. Indigenous Peoples and Water Justice in a Globalizing World / Sue Jackson --
7. Re-imagined Communities: The Transformational Potential of Interspecies Ethnography in Water Policy Development / Veronica Strang --
pt. 3 FOOD, ENERGY, AND WATER --
8. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Arid Regions: The Politics of Problemsheds / Martin Keulertz, Jeannie Sowers, Eckart Woertz, and Rabi Mohtar --
9. The Nexus of Energy and Water Quality / Erika weinthal, Avner Vengoshm and Kate J. Neville --
10. What Is Food-Water and Why Do We Not Account for It? / Martin Keulertz and Tony Allan --
13. Unintended Water Allocation: Gaining Share from Indirect Action and Inaction / Virginia Hooper and Bruce Lankford --
pt. 4 WATER AND THE POLITICS OF SCALE --
12. Why Scale Matters: Borderless Water and Bordered Thinking / Alice Cohen --
13. Local Water Politics / Sara Hughes and Megan Mullin --
14. Rethinking Urban Water (In)formality / Malini Ranganathan --
pt. 5 LAW, ECONOMICS, AND WATER MANAGEMENT --
15. Innovation and Trends in Water Law / Philippe Cullet --
16. Economics of Water / Jeffrey M. Peterson and Nathan P. Hendricks --
17. The Political Economy of Water Markets: 40 Years of Debates, Experiments and Lessons Learned / Dustin E, Garrick and Jesper Svensson --
18. The Business of water / Karen Bakker --
19. China's Water Pricing Policies / Zhong Ma, Dunhu Chang, and Fang Zhou --
pt. 6 THE POLITICS OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS --
20. Managing Transboundary Rivers to Avert Conflict and Facilitate Cooperation / Neda A. Zawahri --
21. Transboundary Unbound : Redefining Water Conflict and Cooperation for Contemporary Challenges that Extend beyond watersheds, Regions, and Water / Jacob D. Petersen- Perlman, Julie Elkins Watson, and Aaron T. Wolf --
22. "Something Has to Yield" : Climate Change Transforming Transboundary Water Governance (as We Know It) / Joakim Öjendal and Gustav Aldén Rudd --
23. River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses / Andrea K. Gerlak and Susanne Schmeier --
24. The Absence of Water Conflicts in the Developing World : Evidence from Africa / Clionadh Raleigh --
pt. 7 THE POLITICS OF WATER KNOWLEDGE --
25. Integrated Water Resources Management : Core Research Questions for Governance / Mark Lubell and Carolina Balazs --
26. Transfer, Diffusion, Adaption, and Translation of Water Policy Models / Farhad Mukhtarov and Katherine A. Daniell --
27. Climate Information and Water Management : Building Adaptive Capacior Business as Usual? / Maria Carmen Lemos and Christine Kirchhoff.

"This handbook gathers a diverse group of leading scholars of water politics and policy. Authors were tasked to present forward-looking chapters in their areas of expertise, flagging key trends in both research and practice. The volume is organized into six sections: poverty, rights, and ethics; food, energy, and water; water and the politics of scale; law, economics, and water management; the politics of transboundary water; and the politics of water knowledge. Cross-cutting themes include governance challenges rooted in the mobility, unpredictability, and public-goods dimensions of water; tensions and synergies among equity, efficiency, and sustainability; the distributive consequences of water governance; the design and performance of water institutions; and the implications of climate change."