Reconnecting People and Water: Public Engagement and Sustainable Urban Water Management

by Liz Sharp

Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies. This technical model of water management is now being questioned. This book examines the nature of contemporary water management and the prospects for and barriers to different forms of engagement with the public.

In particular, it shows how historical and social scientific understandings develop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415728452
• ISBN13: 9780415728454
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"