Research Catalog

Title

Flows and practices : the politics of integrated water resouces management in eastern and southern Africa / edited by Lyla Mehta, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu.

Publication

Harare : Weaver Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

• Mehta, Lyla
• Derman, William
• Manzungu, Emmanuel

Description

ix, 366 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Grounded in social science theory and research, it highlights the importance of politics, history and culture in shaping water management practices and reform, and demonstrates how Africa has clearly been a laboratory for IWRM. While a new cadre of professionals made IWRM their mission, we show that poor women and men may not have always benefitted. In some cases IWRM has also offered a distraction from more critical issues such as water and land grabs, privatization, the negative impacts of water permits, and a range of institutional ambiguities that prevent water allocations to small and poor water users. By critically examining the interpretations and challenges of IWRM, the book contributes to improving water policies and practices and making them more locally appropriate in Africa and beyond.

Alternative Title

Flows & practices

Subject

• Integrated water development > Africa, Eastern
• Integrated water development > Africa, Southern
• Water resources development > Africa, Eastern
• Water resources development > Africa, Southern
• Integrated water development
• Water resources development
• Eastern Africa
• Southern Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1 Introduction -- flows and practices : The politics of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in eastern and southern Africa / Lyla Mehta, Synne Movik, Alex Bolding, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu -- 2. The birth and spread of IWRM : a case study of global policy diffusion and translation / Jeremy Allouche -- 3. The flow of IWRM in SADC : the role of regional dynamics, advocacy networks and external actors / Synne Movik, Lyla Mehta and Emmanuel Manzungu -- 4. Emergence, interpretations and translations of IWRM in South Africa / Synne Movik, Lyla Mehta, Barbara van Koppen and Kristi Denby -- 5. The 'trickle down' of IWRM : a case study of local-level realities in the Inkomati Water Management Area, South Africa / Kristi Denby, Synne Movik, Lyla Mehta and Barbara van Koppen -- 6. Surges and ebbs : national politics and international influence in the formulation and implementation of IWRM in Zimbabwe / Emmanuel Manzungu and Bill Derman -- 7. The complex politics of water and power in Zimbabwe : IWRM in the catchment councils of Manyame, Mazowe and Sanyati (1993-2001) / Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu -- 8. Land, farming and IWRM : a case study of the Middle Manyame Sub-Catchment / Takunda Hove, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu -- 9. IWRM avant la Lettre? Four key episodes in the policy articulation of IWRM in downstream Mozambique / Rossella Alba and Alex Bolding -- 10. The politics of water payments and stakeholder participation in the Limpopo River Basin, Mozambique / Rossella Alba, Alex Bolding and Raphaëlle Ducrot -- 11. Winners and losers of IWRM in Tanzania / Barbara van Koppen, Andrew K.P. R. Tarimo, Aurelia van Eeden, Emmanuel Manzungu and Philip Mathew Sumuni -- 12. Whose waters? Large-scale agricultural development and water grabbing in the Wami-Ruvu River Basin, Tanzania / Aurelia van Eeden, Lyla Mehta and Barbara van Koppen -- 13. IWRM in Uganda -- progress after decades of implementation / Alan Nicol and William Odinga -- 14. Reflections on the formulation and implementation of IWRM in southern Africa from a gender perspective / Bill Derman, and Preetha Prabhakaran -- 15. Viewpoint -- IWRM and I : a reflexive travelogue of the flows and practices research team / Alex Bolding and Rossella Alba.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-16220

ISBN

• 9781779223142
• 1779223145

LCCN

2016341227

OCLC

988169290

Title

Flows and practices : the politics of integrated water resouces management in eastern and southern Africa / edited by Lyla Mehta, Bill Derman and Emmanuel Manzungu.

Publisher

Harare : Weaver Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Mehta, Lyla, editor.

Derman, William, editor.

Manzungu, Emmanuel, editor.

Cover Title

Flows & practices

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-16220