Ethical water stewardship /

Ethical water stewardship / Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Zafar Adeel, editors.

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales. Water security, which pertains to the experi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Leman Stefanovic, Ingrid (Editor), Adeel, Zafar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Series:Water security in a new world.
Subjects:
Water-supply > Environmental aspects.
Water-supply > Management.
Environmental management.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Part I: Understanding Water Ethics
  • Chapter 1: Valuing Water
  • 1.1 Anthropocentric Ethics: From Theory to Application
  • 1.2 Shifting Paradigms: Lessons from Traditional Ecological Knowledge
  • 1.2.1 Water with Spirit
  • 1.2.2 On Water Relationality
  • 1.2.3 Water Threatened
  • 1.2.4 Indigenous Resurgence and Water Defenders
  • 1.3 Navigating among Plural Moral Perspectives
  • 1.4 Final Reflections
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Water and Ecological Ethics in the Anthropocene
  • 2.1 Introduction.
  • 2.2 The Challenge of the Anthropocene
  • 2.3 Right Relationship with Water
  • 2.3.1 Aspects of Water Ethics: A Relational Perspective and Six Principles
  • 2.4 Principles of Water Ethics
  • 2.5 The Law of Water: Private Property, Public Trust
  • 2.5.1 Applying Ethical Principles: Right Relationship and Trusteeship in Water Management
  • 2.5.2 Accommodating the Interconnectivity of Water in Fair Governance and Use
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Contextualizing a Human Rights Perspective for Water Ethics: From Exploitation to Empowerment and Beyond
  • 3.1 Introduction.
  • 3.2 Resource Exploitation and Market Environmentalism: Conservation and Efficiency
  • 3.2.1 Terminological and Conceptual Clarifications
  • 3.2.2 Markets as a Remedy for Tragedy of the Commons
  • 3.2.3 Why Do Governments Welcome PSP?: Conservation and Water Pricing
  • 3.2.4 Scrutinizing Claims of Efficiency Gains from PSP
  • 3.2.5 Challenging Assumptions
  • 3.2.6 Clashes Over Values and Unfulfilled Expectations
  • 3.2.7 Shift Toward Remunicipalization
  • 3.3 A Human Rights Perspective: Empowerment and Equity
  • 3.3.1 Legal Rights: International (and National) Human Rights to Water.
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Uses of Feminist Eco-Criticism for Water Policy
  • 4.1 Fresh Water: A Human Right?
  • 4.2 Neoliberalization of Cheap Nature
  • 4.3 The Pull of Meat on Fresh Water
  • 4.4 Ecofeminism, Essentialism, and the Gendered Devaluation of Nature
  • 4.5 Should We Dissolve Society/Nature Dualisms?
  • 4.6 Water Policy and Critical Ecofeminism
  • 4.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Water, Stakeholder Values, and Decision Making
  • 5.1 Background
  • 5.2 Values Analysis
  • 5.2.1 Sidestepping the Problem
  • 5.3 Competence
  • 5.3.1 Implications for Water Management.
  • 5.3.2 Leadership and the Role of Philosophers
  • References
  • Reference
  • Part II: Place-Based Challenges
  • Chapter 6: The Ethics of Blue Urbanism
  • 6.1 Defining the Moral Community (of Blue)
  • 6.2 Which Nature in Blue Cities?
  • 6.3 Fostering Empathy for Marine Life
  • 6.4 Does the Ocean, or a Harbor, Have a Legal Right?
  • 6.5 The Value of (Marine) Wildness in a Modern City
  • 6.6 The Ethics of Blue Commoning
  • 6.7 Public Investments in Marine Awe?
  • 6.8 Are There Public Rights to the Blue?
  • 6.9 Fair Risk and Ethical Adaptation.

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