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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	International Political Economy Series
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	16. 07. 2022
Seiten	:	265
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
Gewicht	:	503 g
ISBN	:	9783031081071
Sprache	:	Englisch
Illustrationen	:	XIX, 265 p. 4 illus.

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Autorinformation

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Larry Swatuk is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He has lived and worked in different parts of Africa over more than 37 years beginning with a 6 month visit to Lesotho in 1984. Between 1989-96 he was a Research Fellow, National University of Lesotho; Visiting Scholar, University of Swaziland; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rhodes University; and Senior Research Fellow at ACDESS in Nigeria. From 1996-2007 he was a Lecturer in Politics and Associate Professor of Natural Resources Governance at the University of Botswana. Currently, His research focuses primarily on freshwater governance and management in the Global South.Corrine Cash  is an Assistant Professor of Planning and Community Climate Adaptation in the Department of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. 

 

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Chapter 1: Avoiding ‘Day Zero’: Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Water for Megacities.- Chapter 2: São Paulo’s Water System: A Megacity’s efforts to fight water scarcity.- Chapter 3: Challenges for Urban Water Security in London and Cape Town.- Chapter 4: A Megacity’s Hydrological Risk: An analysis of water security issues in Jakarta City, Indonesia.- Chapter 5: Creating Water-Secure Futures in Megacities: A Comparative Case Study of ‘Day Zero’ Cities - Bangalore and Chennai.- Chapter 6: A Pathway for Beijing: Avoiding ‘Day Zero’.- Chapter 7: Confronting the System: An Exploration of the Water Security Crisis in Melbourne.- Chapter 8: MENA Megacities Approaching Day Zero: A Comparative Study Between Cairo and Istanbul.- Chaptet 9: Achieving urban water security in Tokyo.- Chapter 10: Toward Sustainability, Away from Collapse: Challenges for Twenty-first Century Megacities.

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