Routledge Handbook of Water and Development

Sofie Hellberg is associate professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She studies, and teaches on, water politics, environmental, climate governance and theories of power and agency. Hellberg has published in leading journals and with international publishers on topics ranging from Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to research methodology. Her previous work on water appears in international journals including Geoforum, Water Alternatives, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space and Local Environment as well as in a monograph on The Biopolitics of Water (Routledge, 2018). Fredrik Söderbaum is a professor of peace and development research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and an Associate Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges, Belgium. Söderbaum has published extensively in leading journals on comparative regionalism, global and regional governance, development research, security studies, and African politics. His most recent books include Contestations of the Liberal International Order: A Populist Script of Regional Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rethinking Regionalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and Intersecting Interregionalism: Regions, Global Governance and the EU (Springer, 2014). Ashok Swain is Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, UNESCO Chair on International Water Cooperation and Director of the Research School of International Water Cooperation at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environment and Security, published by SAGE and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. He has written extensively on new security challenges, water-sharing issues, environment, conflict and peace, and democratic development issues. His most recent publications includes, Handbook of Security and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2021) coedited with Joakim Öjendal and Anders Jägerskog. Joakim Öjendal is professor in Peace and Development Research since 2006 at the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has worked on resource politics, peacebuilding, and post-war democratisation for three decades in research, policy and education. He has published widely in leading journals and with international publishers, for instance being the co-editor of Water Security, a Four Volume Set of SAGE Major Works, as well as Transboundary Water Management and the Climate Change Debate, published with Earthscan, both in 2014. His most recent publications includes Handbook of Security and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2021) coedited with Ashok Swain and Anders Jägerskog.

Introduction: The Water-Development Nexus
Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain and Joakim Öjendal

PART I: THEORIES AND APPROACHES TO WATER AND DEVELOPMENT




Water as a Tool for Modernity
Joakim Öjendal & Sofie Hellberg




Institutional Approaches to Water for Development
Larry Swatuk




Water and Human Development: Unpacking Scarcity and ‘water crises’
Lyla Mehta




Critical and Post-structural Approaches to Water and Development
Sofie Hellberg




Feminist Contributions to Water and Development Scholarship
Margreet Zwarteveen




Indigenous Peoples, Sustainable Development, and Ontologies of Water
Deborah McGregor, Mahisha Sritharan and Steve Whitaker

PART II: CASE STUDIES ON WATER AND DEVELOPMENT




Cambodia
Joakim Öjendal




South Africa
Richard Meissner, Nikki Funke, Stephen Rule. Karen Nortje and Inga Jacobs-Mata




Peru
Patricia Urteaga Crovetto




Jordan
Neda Zawahri




The Netherlands
Erik Mostert

PART III: GOVERNING WATER AND DEVELOPMENT




Governing Water Services
Klaas Schwarz and Mireia Tutusaus




Water, Neoliberalism and Commodification
Jessica Budds and Alex Loftus




The Human Right to Water
Peter H. Gleick




Water Resources Management – The Missing Political Link
Kurt Mörck Jensen and Jens Christian Refsgaard




Water, Participation and Development
Jeroen Warner and Richard Meissner




Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters
Jeroen Warner




Strategies towards SDG 6 Implementation
Anik Bhaduri, Alexandre Teixeira and Aditya Kaushik

PART IV: THEMES AND ISSUES




Water, Food and Irrigation
Jaime Hoogesteger, Diana Suhardiman, Gert Jan Veldwisch, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas and Rutgerd Boelens




Groundwater
Susann Baez Ullberg and Henrik Josefsson




Water Stress and Scarcity
Zafar Adeel




Water, Migration and Development
Anders Jägerskog and Ashok Swain




Water and Climate Change
Deliang Chen and Hui-Wen Lai




Drought
Elisa Savelli




Water-Energy Nexus
Aiko Endo




Water Inequalities
Maria Rusca




Gendered Intersections in Water and Development
Gaylean Davies, Evelyn Arriagada and Leila M. Harris




Urban Water
Susan van de Meene




Water and Health
Jo Geere, Paul R Hunter and Bruce Lankford




Sanitation
Nelson Ekane




Digital Water

Karen Bakker, Rosemary Knight, Raymond T Ng, Alan K Mackworth and Max Ritts