Federal conservation policy has seen a new development recently: the use of the Clean Water Act (CWA) as a tool for regulating ballast water discharges from ships and, thereby, for preventing biological invasions caused by the discharge of nonindigenous organisms in ballast. Some outcomes of...

The European Water Framework Directive is shaping a new conception of integrative water protection. In this article, the consequences of the Water Framework Directive in respect to national environmental policy will be discussed in referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central...

Die vorliegende Dissertation identifiziert im Rückgriff auf sozialökologische Forschung und mittels der Analyse der spezifischen Problematisierungen von Phänomenen im Zusammenhang mit Wasser durch Institutionen und Akteure der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Sub-Sahara Afrika...

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Colonial Origins of Global Water Inequality; Part I. Wheeling and Dealing Water in the Americas; 1. Water Hoarding in a California Drought; 2. How a Coup Opened Chile's Water Markets; Part II. Postcolonial Water Insurgencies; 3. South Africa's...