Governing Access to Essential Resources / / ed. by Olivier De Schutter, Katharina Pistor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Anand, Nikhil,; Casado-Pérez, Vanessa,; Chiweshe, Manase Kudzai,; Cox, Michael,; Dagan, Hanoch,; Durand-Lasserve, Alain,; Dwyer, Michael B.,; Hall, Derek,; Hursh, John,; Krueger, James,; Macharia, Laila,; McKenzie, Scott,; Neupane, Nilhari,; Pils, Eva,; Pistor, Katharina,; Schlager, Edella,; Schutter, Olivier De,; Vakulabharanam, Vamsi,
• HerausgeberIn: De Schutter, Olivier,; Pistor, Katharina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 14 figures and tables

Essential resources do more than satisfy people's needs. They ensure a dignified existence. Since the competition for essential resources, particularly fresh water and arable land, is increasing and standard legal institutions, such as property rights and national border controls, are stranglin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• 2. Land’s Essentiality and Land Governance
• 3. Governing Boundaries
• 4. Property Theory, Essential Resources, and the Global Land Rush
• 5. MultipliCity
• 6. Voice, Reflexivity, and Say
• 7. Tenure Security and Exclusion Processes in Peri-urban Areas and Rural Hinterlands of West African Cities
• 8. Redirecting Regulation?
• 9. Erosion of Essential Resources in Neoliberal India
• 10. Comparing Water Access Regimes Under Conditions of Scarcity
• 11. Go with the Flow
• 12. Ecology
• 13. Water Scarcity in Morocco
• 14. Solving Transborder Water Issues in Changing Climate Scenarios of South Asia
• 15. Voice and Reflexivity in Essential Resources
• 16. Do Traditional Institutions Matter in Participatory Essential Resource Governance Systems in Zimbabwe?
• 17. Local Corporationss
• Epilogue
• Contributors
• Index