Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect
In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies. However, the capacity of many countries for action is limited and may result in a boomerang effect, defined as the unintended negative consequences of such policies and programmes on local communities and their negative feedbacks on the state. To avoid this effect, there is a need to understand the policy drivers, decision-making processes, and impacts of such action, in order to determine the ways and means of minimizing negative effects and maximizing mutually beneficial policy outcomes.
This book directly engages the policy debates surrounding water resources and climate actions through both theoretical and comparative case studies. It develops the boomerang effect concept and sets it in relation to other conceptual tools for understanding the mixed outcomes of state-led climate change action, for example, backdraft effect and maldevelopment. It also presents case studies illustrative of the consequences of ill-considered state-led policy in the water sector from around the world. These include Africa, China, South Asia, South America, the Middle East, Turkey and Vietnam, and examples of groundwater, hydropower development and forest hydrology, where there are often transboundary consequences of a states policies and actions. In this way, the book adds empirical and theoretical insights to a still developing debate regarding the appropriate ways and means of combating climate change without undermining state and social development.
Larry A. Swatuk is a Professor in the School of Environment Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada and Extraordinary Professor in the Institute for Water Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Lars Wirkus is a Researcher and Head of Section, Data and GIS at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Germany.
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Water, Climate Change and the Boomerang Effect
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Edited by Larry A. Swatuk and Lars Wirkus
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Contents
LARRY A. SWATUK, LARS WIRKUS, FLORIAN KRAMPE, BEJOY K. THOMAS AND LUIS PAULO BATISTA DA SILVA
BOJIAN ZHANG, CHIEH CHENG, YUYE LI, ZHE ZHANG AND LARRY SWATUK
KADRA RAYALE, KAYLIA LITTLE, MARY CRAWFORD AND LARRY SWATUK
RIJA RASUL, STEPHEN LITTLE, ZOYA KHAN AND LARRY SWATUK
JASON DURST, LIAM NEUMANN, ANA SMITH, LUIS PAULO BATISTA DA SILVA AND LARRY SWATUK
LAURA MAXWELL, VIDYA NAIR, STEPHANIE SOLOMON AND LARRY SWATUK
SONYA DEBORAH KRAUSE, FRANCES DELANEY, RICARDA INES KONWIARZ AND LARRY SWATUK
NIKITA YASMIN SHAH, LARS WIRKUS AND LARRY SWATUK
ALHASSAN LANSAH ABDULAI AND SEBASTIAAN SOETERS
ROMY BUCHNER, MRIDULA NAIR, BARBARA PINTO AND LARRY SWATUK
GEOFFREY D. DABELKO AND MEAGHAN PARKER
Illustrations
Figures
Tables
About the authors
Alhassan Lansah Abdulai pursued a Master of Science (MSc) programme in Agricultural Science and Resource Management in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics at the University of Bonn in Germany. He also obtained a PhD in Climate Change Adaptation from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. Currently he works with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana and focuses on Climate Change Adaptation at the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in Tamale Ghana.
Romy Buchner is a graduate student in the Masters of Development Practice programme at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her current research focuses on Maternal Health and Gender Equality.
Chieh Cheng holds a Master of Development Practice degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Mary Crawford holds a Master of Development Practice degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Geoffrey D. Dabelko is Professor and Associate Dean at Ohio Universitys Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and is Advisor to the Wilson Centers Environmental Change and Security Program.
Frances Delaney holds a Master of Climate Change degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Jason Durst holds a Master of Development Practice degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Zoya Khan holds a Master of Development Practice degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Ricarda Ines Konwiarz
