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Water Poverty and Justice in the Global South

Law, Human Rights and Community Action for Water Security
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  • Water Poverty and Justice in the Global South on Hardback by Nathan John Cooper
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Description

Delivering sustainable access to sufficient, safe water represents an urgent and profound global challenge in the face of increasing demand, resource overexploitation, and climate change contributing to unpredictable rainfall, salination and desertification. Much of the effort to reduce water poverty has centred on considering and declaring access to sufficient water to be a human right. Yet the continuing reality of water poverty for over 650 million people worldwide, even in countries where access to water is already a constitutional right, leads to a reappraisal of the role of human rights in water law and governance and of their ability to alleviate poverty. Using a methodology of narrative inquiry, this book explores the practical consequences of these human rights failings to gain inspiration towards alternative approaches to water governance. In particular, attention is turning towards ‘commons’ modes of resource allocation, which promise to promote more interconnected, communal and grounded visions of water use, better suited to sustainable, equitable water governance. Detailed case studies are included from Argentina, India, Malawi and South Africa.

Author Biography:

Nathan Cooper is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Lincoln, UK. He also guest lectures at the Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands and at North-West University in South Africa. Before beginning a career in academia, he worked in South Africa in the NGO sector, on poverty-alleviation strategies and micro-financing.
Release date NZ
October 1st, 2025
Pages
224
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
5 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
9781138726352
Product ID
28277152

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