ABSTRACT
Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are environmentally sustainable and socially just. This book assesses the implications of ongoing research in framing a new discipline of water ethics in practice.
Contributions consider the difficult ethical and epistemological questions of water ethics in a global context, as well as offering local, empirical perspectives. Case study chapters focus on a range of countries including Canada, China, Germany, India, South Africa and the USA. The respective insights are brought together in the final section concerning the practical project of a universal water ethics charter, alongside theoretical questions about the legitimacy of a global water ethics.
Overall the book provides a stimulating examination of water ethics in theory and practice, relevant to academics and professionals in the fields of water resource management and governance, environmental ethics, geography, law and political science.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Ethics and epistemology
chapter 3|19 pages
What is water ethics and to what end do we study it?
part II|108 pages
Global water ethics, local cases and a diversity of perspectives
chapter 7|22 pages
Safe, just and sufficient space
chapter 12|18 pages
Water, virtue ethics and traditional ecological knowledge in Rajasthan
part III|79 pages
Water ethics charters and charting water