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Reconnecting People and Water: Public Engagement and Sustainable Urban Water Management (Earthscan Water Text)
Liz Sharp
Hardcover. Routledge 2016-10-27.
ISBN 9780415728447
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Water management in developed countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies. This technical model of water management is now being questioned. This book examines the nature of contemporary water management and the prospects for and barriers to different forms of engagement with the public.
In particular it shows how historical and social scientific understandings develop and question current water management norms in relation to water in the landscape, water in the home, and the hidden management of water beneath our streets and behind our walls. It is shown that the four-fold challenges of climate change, urbanization, changing environmental standards and fiscal accountability mean that we can no longer rely on unseen technical fixes to erase the threats of pollution, water shortages and floods. Such concerns offer two prompts for public engagement and participation. First, on a purely instrumental level, public engagement can complement, or offer an obvious alternative to, technical fixes. Secondly, public engagement may provide a route to find new ways of addressing water and related challenges.
The author offers a unique social science perspective on many of the socio-technical issues facing the management of water in urban settings in developed countries, where urban is interpreted broadly to include all areas served by piped water. Drawing on historical context, an extensive review of the published literature, as well as the author's own empirical studies, the work prompts broader discussions about how we manage water in contemporary society
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