Jump to content

Water management

Latest Additions

Analysing past and current debates about water and sanitation: ( L. Mehta;F. Marshall;S. Movik / STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies , 2007); This STEPS paper reviews past and current debates in the water and sanitation domain and takes initial steps towards developing a framework that might better address the sustainability challenges pose...
A manual to help make access to water and sanitation a human right: ( A. Khalfan;V. Roaf;H. Grimes / Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions , 2007); There is growing interest among water and sanitation policy makers and practitioners in the contributions of human rights approaches to efforts to extend access to water and sanitation to all. Many ac...
Collection of papers examining the legitimacy and effectiveness of global environmental governance: ( I. Balberg;H. Hofstad / Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research , 2007); This working paper contains reports on the creation of more effective and legitimate multi-governance arrangements in various policy domains from the 8. Nordic Environmental Social Science Research Co...
Public-private sector partnership in the water sector, Uganda: ( A.G. Koestler / Yme , 2005); While the UN-Water Decade and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) define the focus of both governments and nongovernmental organisations to improve the situation of many communities, new concepts ...
What are the contributions of Norwegian aid to the water sector?: ( Association for International Water and Forest Studies, Norway , 2004); The report aims to provide a picture of and numbers on the Norwegian bilateral development cooperation within water supply, sanitation and water resource management between 1999 and 2003.
The report...
Resettlement at the Three Gorges Dam, China: ( G. Heggelund / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , 2005); This paper considers the development and resettlement issues surrounding the Three Gorges Dam in China. Drawing on research carried out ten years the author discusses the problems surrounding research...
Sanitation and the importance of people's attitudes in Pakistan: ( B. Nawab; I. Nyborg; K. Esser; P. Jenssen / Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences , 2005); Based on a case study of Machaki Banda, a village in rural North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan, this paper aims at gaining an understanding of peoples’ attitudes to sanitation, and their p...
Converting to an ecosan system in Kuching, Malaysia is feasible: ( P.D.| Jenssen / EcoSan Norway , 2005); This paper address sanitation issues in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak Malaysia, examining the implications of converting to an ecological sanitation (ecosan) system. The paper specifically examines ...
Exploration of the relationship between poor freshwater access and destitution: ( J.N.K. Mugambi; G. Kebreab / Norwegian Church Aid , 2005); Freshwater supply is not a priority of the rich countries in their development agendas for the poor countries. Yet this paper suggests that it is the most important indicator of destitution. This pape...
Key problems of multilateral trade liberalisation as they relate to poor people's rights: ( A. Sommerfeldt / Norwegian Church Aid , 2005); This is a set of papers that address the questions: do equal rules really allow poor producers to receive a fair share of the trade wealth and does the current free trade system represent equal rules ...