Water Policy, Imagination and Innovation: Interdisciplinary Approaches by Robyn

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Taking as its starting point the claim that there is a stalemate in contemporary water policy design, this book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions.

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This book explores creative interdisciplinary and potentially transformative solutions to the current stalemate in contemporary water policy design. A more open policy conversation about water than exists at present is proposed – one that provides a space for the role of the imagination and is inclusive – of the arts and humanities, relevant stakeholders, including landholders and Indigenous peoples, as well as science, law and economics. Written for a wide audience, including practitioners and professional readers, as well as scholars and students, the book demonstrates the value of multiple disciplines, voices, perspectives, knowledges and different ways of relating to water. It provides a fresh and timely response to the urgent need for water policy that works to achieve sustainability, and may be better able to resolve complex environmental, social and cultural water issues. Utilising a broad range of evidentiary sources and case studies from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere, the authors of this edited collection demonstrate how new ways of thinking and imagining water are not only possible but already practised, and growing in saliency and impact. The current dominance of narrower ways of conceptualising our relationship with water is critiqued, including market valuation and water privatisation, and more innovative alternatives are described, including those that recognise the importance of place-based stories and narratives, adopt traditional ecological knowledge and relational water appreciations, and apply cutting-edge behavioural and ecological systems science. The book highlights how innovative approaches drawing on a wide range of views may counter prevailing policy myopia, enable reflexive governance and transform water policy towards addressing water security questions and the broader challenges posed by the Anthropocene and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Author Biography

Robyn Bartel is Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at the University of New England, Australia. Louise Noble is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New England, Australia. Jacqueline Williams is Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, University of New England, Australia.Stephen Harris is Lecturer in English at the University of New England, Australia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Water policy and the Anthropocene 1. Blue sky thinking in water governance: Understanding the role of the imagination in Australian water policy 2. Aboriginal Rainmakers: A twentieth century phenomenon 3. 'Like Manna from Heaven?': Just Water, History and the Philosophical Justification of Water Property Rights 4. Progressing from experience-based to evidence-based water resource management: Exploring the use of 'Best Available Science' to integrate science and policy 5. Accounting for water: from past practices to future possibilities 6. Rethinking the Value of Water: Stewardship, Sustainability, and a Better Future 7. Stewardship arrangements for water: An evaluation of reasonable use in sustainable catchment or watershed management systems 8. Water Knowledge Systems 9.Water policy for resilient agri-environmental landscapes: lessons from the Australian experience 10. Waterworks: Developing Behaviourally Effective Policies to Manage Household Water Use 11.Quixotic water policy and the prudence of place-based voices 12. Heterotic water policy futures using place agency, vernacular knowledge, transformative learning and syncretic governance 13. Coda

Details ISBN0367352273 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 0367352273 ISBN-13 9780367352271 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Interdisciplinary Approaches Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Stephen Harris DEWEY 333.9100994 Affiliation University of New England, Australia Publication Date 2019-10-10 Language English UK Release Date 2019-10-10 AU Release Date 2019-10-10 NZ Release Date 2019-10-10 Illustrations 17 Illustrations, black and white Author Stephen Harris Series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management Alternative 9781138729377 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 292 We've got this

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