Regulating Water Scarcity: A Socio-Legal Perspective

Name: Regulating Water Scarcity: A Socio-Legal Perspective
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009653466
Price: 1365.00 HKD
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Author: Bettina Lange
ISBN: 9781009653466

By Bettina Lange

Coming Soon Cambridge University Press Available January 2027

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ISBN-13: 9781009653466
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2027
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Regulating water scarcity engages with a core challenge posed by a changing climate: how can we use legal rules to alleviate water scarcity and drought? Based on interview data, this book examines how managers of water resources – in water companies and environmental regulatory agencies in England and Wales – draw on distinct ideas of evidence when applying legal rules. The book develops its account of evidence as organization in the context of a critical analysis of academic literature about regulatory spaces, the co-production of law with science, Foucaultian ideas about information resources, and the 'rules of the game' that inform how organizations take actions. The book's approach to 'water law in action' includes a comparative perspective that introduces selected features of regulating water scarcity and drought in Australia, China, California and the Colorado river system, Germany and Spain.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

1. The regulatory paradox of the Anthropocene

2. Evidence, society and regulation

3. A spatial perspective for governing water in the UK?

4. From networks to relationships of power in the governance space for water resources in the UK

5. From environmental science knowledges to evidence 'in action'

6. Co-producing legal rules with science evidence

7. Evidence as organization

8. A comparative perspective

9. Conclusion

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