ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that it is important to better understand the way the concept may be deployed to replace the more democraticn water governance implied by 'sustainable development' with a state-dominated and 'territorialist' form of environmental governmentality. Over the last decade, the concept of water security has emerged from its origins in a niche of studies of international security and hydropolitics to become a common currency of researchers and policy makers. The securitization of environmental discourse is part of a decades-long process that is not wholly coincident with the sustainable development movement and indeed seeks to reposition the state and civil society as key actors in environmental management. Consider the role that normalizing science has played in this transition from ecological modernism, to sustainable development, to environmental security. Staddon et al. present research findings that illuminate the household decision-making dynamics of adopters and non-adopters of a water collection and storage technology.
