The Governance of Water Innovations: To Quench a Thirst

David Lewis Feldman's book "The Governance of Water Innovations" examines the technical, economic, health, and environmental impacts of water innovations and their policy implications. It discusses desalination, rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse, and demand-side innovations, as well as emerging cyber-infrastructure issues. The book explores water innovations across The Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, considering potential areas of contention involving land use, aesthetics, recreational impacts, user costs, and environmental quality. It advises how innovations should be deployed, governed, and implemented democratically to ensure public acceptance, trust, and engagement for a water resilient future.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 09 August 2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

A thorough examination of water innovations, encompassing their technical, economic, health, and environmental impacts, as well as their policy implications, is presented by David Lewis Feldman. The book delves into various water-related innovations, including desalination, rainwater harvesting, wastewater reuse, and demand-side innovations, as well as emerging cyber-infrastructure issues. It explores the historical and contemporary challenges associated with water innovations, spanning across regions such as The Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Chapters in the book examine potential areas of contention that arise, including land use, aesthetics, recreational impacts, user costs, and environmental quality. By highlighting the significance of these challenges and identifying the most effective and equitable approaches to addressing them, Feldman offers guidance on how innovations should be deployed, governed, and implemented democratically, fostering public acceptance, trust, and engagement for a water-resilient future.

This comprehensive study of water innovation governance will be of immense value to students and scholars of public policy, environmental and water studies, and geopolitics. Moreover, its pioneering analysis of adaptive governance makes it an essential reference guide for practitioners, professionals, and policymakers involved in water governance and management, including water agency officials and water resource legislators.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800882041