WATER, CLIMATE CHANGE AND BOOMERANG EFFECT UNINTENTIONAL CONSEQUENCES FOR RESOURCE INSECURITY

• Other Authors: Swatuk, Larry A. 1957- (Editor), Wirkus, Lars (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2018
• Series: Earthscan studies in water resource management
• Subjects: Water resources development > Case studies; Water supply > Case studies; Water security > Case studies; Dams > Case studies > Environmental aspects
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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 n...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : theorizing the boomerang effect / Larry Swatuk, Lars Wirkus, Florian Krampe, Bejoy K. Thomas, Luis Paulo Batista da Silva
• Nothing's always perfect : lessons from the Three Gorges Dam / Bojian Zhang, Chieh Cheng,Yuye Li, Zhe Zhang and Larry Swatuk
• Four countries one aquifer : the Guarani Aquifer and the duty to cooperate / Kadra Rayale, Kaylia Little, Mary Crawford and Larry Swatuk
• Shifting waters : changing water discourses and the Farakka Barrage / Rija Rasul, Stephen Little, Tom Stark, Zoya Khan and Larry Swatuk
• The Belo Monte Dam : from local protest to national boomerang effect / Jason Durst, Liam Neumann, Ana Smith and Larry Swatuk
• An assessment of UN-REDD in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam / Laura Maxwell, Vidya Nair, Stephanie Solomon and Larry Swatuk
• "We have the right to do anything we like" : the boomerang effects of the Illisu Dam / Sonya Deborah Krause, Frances Delaney, Ricarda Ines Konwiarz and Larry Swatuk
• Can climate change challenges unite a divided Jordan River Basin / Nikita Shah, Lars Wirkus and Larry Swatuk
• A gendered analysis of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) as a strategy for strengthening adaptive capacity in Ghana's Tolon District / Alhassan Lansah Abdulai and Sebastiaan Soeters
• Unintended consequences of dams and water security : an insight into women's vulnerability and the spread of malaria in Ethiopia / Romy Buchner, Mridula Nair, Barbara Pinto and Larry Swatuk.