Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect: Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity

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Larry Swatuk (University of Waterloo, Canada) Lars Wirkus

Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect

Unintentional Consequences for Resource Insecurity

Larry Swatuk (University of Waterloo, Canada), Lars Wirkus

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Routledge
30 July 2018

Hydrology & the hydrosphere; Drought & water supply; Global warming; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many countries for action is limited and may result in a ‘boomerang effect’, defined as the unintended negative consequences of such policies and programmes on local communities and their negative feedbacks on the state. To avoid this effect, there is a need to understand the policy drivers, decision-making processes, and impacts of such action, in order to determine the ways and means of minimizing negative effects and maximizing mutually beneficial policy outcomes.

This book directly engages the policy debates surrounding water resources and climate actions through both theoretical and comparative case studies. It develops the ‘boomerang effect’ concept and sets it in relation to other conceptual tools for understanding the mixed outcomes of state-led climate change action, for example ‘backdraft’ effect and ‘maldevelopment’. It also presents case studies illustrative of the consequences of ill-considered state-led policy in the water sector from around the world. These include Africa, China, South Asia, South America, the Middle East, Turkey and Vietnam, and examples of groundwater, hydropower development and forest hydrology, where there are often transboundary consequences of a state's policies and actions. In this way, the book adds empirical and theoretical insights to a still developing debate regarding the appropriate ways and means of combating climate change without undermining state and social development.

Edited by: Larry Swatuk (University of Waterloo Canada), Lars Wirkus
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9781138556096
ISBN 10: 1138556092
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 30 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Larry A. Swatuk is a Professor in the School of Environment Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada and Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Lars Wirkus is a Researcher and Head of Section, Data and GIS at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Germany.