Reflections on Water

The book offers eight diverse and intriguing case studies from around the world to illustrate new approaches to understanding water resource issues, particularly in transboundary settings. The editors and contributors focus on the multiple meanings of water and the effects of such perspectives on policymaking through network analysis, discourse analysis, historical and ethnographic analysis, and the lenses of social ecology. In combination, these approaches lead to a rich understanding of the multiplicity of forces affecting conflicts over transboundary water resources. Such knowledge can substantially enhance the
capacity of citizens and policymakers to forge public policies grounded
in sustainable development, which itself seeks ambitiously to integrate
environmental, economic, and social goals and values.