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100			_aConca, Ken
245			_a Governing Water _b: contentious transnational politics and global institution building _c/ Ken Conca
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _b : MIT Press, _c©2006
300			_axvi, 466 pages : illustrations, maps _c; 24 cm.
365			_b3308
490			_aGlobal environmental accords.
505			_a Managing the Global Environment or Protecting the Planet's Places?: Institutional Forms of Global Environmental Governance -- Toward a Social Theory of International Institutions -- Pushing Rivers Around: The Cumulative Toll on the World's Watersheds and Freshwater Ecosystems -- Swimming Upstream: In Search of a Global Regime for International Rivers (with Fengshi Wu and Joanne Neukirchen) -- Expert Networks: The Elusive Quest for Integrated Water Resources Management -- The Ecology of Human Rights: Anti-Dam Activism and Watershed Democracy -- Invisible Hand, Visible Fist: The Transnational Politics of Water Marketization -- Brazil: Innovation through Conflict -- South Africa: "With Water We Will Wash Away the Past" -- Institution Building as the Social Embedding of Political Struggle -- Index.
520			_aWater is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a powerful means of social control. It has become a source of contentious politics and social controversy on a global scale, and the management of water conflicts is one of the biggest challenges in the effort to achieve effective global environmental governance. In Governing Water, Ken Conca examines political struggles to create a global framework for the governance of water. Threats to the world's rivers, watersheds, and critical freshwater ecosystems have resisted the establishment of effective global agreements through intergovernmental bargaining because the conditions for successful interstate cooperation -- effective state authority, stable knowledge frameworks, and a territorialized understanding of nature -- cannot be imposed upon water controversies. But while interstate water diplomacy has faltered, less formalized institutions -- socially and politically embedded rules, roles, and practices -- have emerged to help shape water governance locally and globally. Conca examines the politics of these institutions, presenting a framework for understanding global environmental governance based on key institutional presumptions about territoriality, authority, and knowledge. He maps four distinct processes of institution building: formal international regimes for shared rivers; international networking among water experts and professionals; social movements opposing the construction of large dams; and the struggle surrounding transnational water "marketization." These cases illustrate the potential for alternative institutional forms in situations where traditional interstate regimes are ineffective
650			_aEconomics
650			_aEconomics of land and energy
650			_aWater-supply -- Political aspects.
650			_aWater-supply -- Management -- International cooperation.
650			_aInternational rivers.
650			_aCours d'eau internationaux.
650			_aInternationale Kooperation
650			_aInternational co-operation.
700			_aConca, Ken
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