Title | Scarce water, plenty of conflicts? : local water conflicts and the role of development cooperation |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Houdret, A |
Secondary Title | INEF policy brief |
Volume | no. 3 |
Pagination | 20 p. : 2 boxes |
Date Published | 2008-02-01 |
Publisher | Institute for Development and Peace, INEF |
Place Published | Duisburg, Germany |
Keywords | development cooperation, millennium development goals, policies, sdipol, water resources management, water shortage |
Abstract |
Growing water scarcity increases competition for the access to the resource and is subsequently a matter of conflict potential in many countries. Water management and related conflicts are increasingly a matter of distributive justice and political legitimacy. As technical measures can rarely mobilise significant additional water resources, the political scope of action mainly lies in demand management. |
Notes | 12 ref. |
Custom 1 | 276, 202.3 |