Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World: The Hydro-Hazardscapes of Climate Change

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Daanish Mustafa (King's College London, UK)

Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World

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The Hydro-Hazardscapes of Climate Change

Daanish Mustafa (King's College London, UK)

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I.B. Tauris
30 November 2012

Drought & water supply; Water supply & treatment

Access to water, and the threat of climate change, are two of the most challenging issues for our planet.

A global population now exceeding 7 billion people, together with growing numbers of countries adopting a more water intensive lifestyle, are placing increased demands upon the world's water resources, whilst global climate change promises rising sea levels and increased flooding in some of the world's most densely populated regions.

How are we to address the twin challenge of global water sufficiency and future climate change?

Existing attempts to improve the management of local water resources, and to alleviate the hazard of flooding, have often fallen short of the desired result: attempts by governments and NGOs to provide modern solutions, for example, have created unforeseen problems adversely affecting future water resources and leading to increased vulnerability to crises.

Daanish Mustafa's important new book outlines the need to develop an integrative approach.

He introduces the concept of hydro-hazardscape to show how the diverse social groups affected by a hazard may view it differently, with the result that their view of the potential threat may also differ. It is only by adopting an approach that is attentive to the complexities and multiple values of water in the communities affected, that we may hope for any measure of success. Drawing upon a range of international examples from South Asia, Central America, the Caucuses and the USA, at scales ranging from the local to basin wide, the author shows how the hydro-hazardscape approach will help negotiate not only the existing challenges of equity and environmental quality but also that of long-term sustainability in a future filled with climate change.

By: Daanish Mustafa (King's College London UK)
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 554g
ISBN: 9781848855366
ISBN 10: 1848855362
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 30 November 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of illustrations Introduction: hydro-hazardscapes of modernity 2. Hydro-politics at the basin scale: the Indus 3. Critical legal geographies in hydro-hazardscapes 4. Local hydro-hazardscapes in the rural canal colonies of Pakistan 5. Modernity and vulnerability in a Pakistani urban hazardscape 6. Resilience versus growth as groundwater development objectives in the arid realm 7. Globalization and water privatization in Belize 8. Thou shall not optimize or share: a critical view of the prior appropriations doctrine in the American west 9. Conclusion: mapping the contours of hydro-hazardscapes in a climate change future Notes References Index

Daanish Mustaffa is Reader in Human Geography at King's College, London. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at George Mason University and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of South Florida, St Petersburg. He has worked in Pakistan for the non-profit sector on donor-funded social development and environmental preservation projects. His research interests include critical water resources geography, environmental management, and approaches to terrorism.