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Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia
Miriam Seemann
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Description for Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia
Hardback. The author scrutinizes the claim that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. Peru's and Bolivia's case studies demonstrate how formalization policies, while aiming to enhance inclusion, actually reinforce exclusion of the marginalized. Series: Environment, Politics and Social Change. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSR; JP; RNFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. She analyzes two distinct 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' formalization policies in Peru and Bolivia - neoliberal the former, indigenist-socialist the latter. The policies have intended and unintended consequences and impact on marginalized peasants and the complex inter-legal systems for providing water security on the ground. This study seeks to debunk the official myth of the need to create state-centric, top-down legal security in complex, pluralistic water realities. The engagement ... Read more
The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. She analyzes two distinct 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' formalization policies in Peru and Bolivia - neoliberal the former, indigenist-socialist the latter. The policies have intended and unintended consequences and impact on marginalized peasants and the complex inter-legal systems for providing water security on the ground. This study seeks to debunk the official myth of the need to create state-centric, top-down legal security in complex, pluralistic water realities. The engagement ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Environment, Politics and Social Change
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137545220
SKU
V9781137545220
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About Miriam Seemann
Miriam Seemann is an associate researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany. She received her PhD from the University of Hamburg and holds an MA in Intercultural Conflict Management from the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. Her current research focuses on natural resource management, social struggles and peace and conflict studies. She is ... Read more
Reviews for Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia
This book, without exaggeration, importantly contributes to understanding the formulation and workings of policies in a key field of development intervention in the Andean Region, and thereby makes a strong contribution to the field of 'the politics of policy' in natural resource management studies. Miriam Seemann gives a profound, refreshing and very creative response to the currently widespread 'rights formalization ... Read more