 | Key Concepts in Water Resource Management: A Review and Critical Evaluation Subjects: Environment & Agriculture; Built Environment; Global Development; Earth Sciences; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Engineering & Technology; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Urban Studies; Environment & the Global South; Environmental Studies; Environmental Policy; Environmental Management; Environmental Issues; Environment & Resources; Political Ecology; Environmental Politics; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Agriculture & Environmental Sciences; Energy; Landscape; Earth Sciences; Industry & Industrial Studies; Civil Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering; Human Geography; Physical Geography; Public Administration & Management; Environmental Sciences; Hydro and marine energy; Landscape and Sustainability; Hydrology; Limnology; Water Engineering; Water Science; Environmental Geography; Hydrology; Public Policy; Agriculture; Energy Industries & Utilities; The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual waternbsp;and water governance. While the new conceptual lenses may generate insights that improve responses to the world's water challenges, their practical use is often encumbered by ambiguity and confusion.nbsp; This book applies critical scrutiny to a prominent set of new but widely used terms, in order to clarify their meanings and improve the basis on which we identify and tackle the world's water challenges. More specifically, the book takes stock of what several of the more prominent new terms mean, reviews variation in interpretation, explores how they are measured, and discusses their respective added value.nbsp;It makes many implicit differences between terms explicit andnbsp;aids understanding and use of these terms by both students and professionals. At the same time, it does not ignore the legitimately contested nature of some concepts. Further, the book enables greater precision on the interpretational options for the various terms, and for the value that they add to water policy and its implementation. Jonathan Lautze is a researcher at the International Water Management Institute, based in its Pretoria office in South Africa. |
