ABSTRACT
Despite the power of holistic science to open up issues to interdisciplinary analysis, and despite an impression created in this book of a waning role for traditional engineering, it is likely that technocentric solutions will remain influential, if not dominant, for water management in a world of teeming population and wide-spread famine and disease. The same world constitutes a globalised Risk Society (Beck, 1992), representing a stage reached in relationships within the uneasy triangle linking capitalism, technology and communities. If technocentric solutions remain dominant there will need to be changes in our evaluation and use of the knowledge they bring to bear (Chapters 8 and 9).
