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- First pioneering assessment study of the impacts of megaconferences in water-related sectors on water policies, programmes and projects at global, regional and national levels
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overall Analysis
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Since the late 1990s, megaconferences in the water-related sectors have become regular occurrences. The latest one, in Mexico City, in March 2006, is estimated to have cost a total of $205 million, and had 19,000+ participants. In spite of such huge costs and organizational efforts, not a single water megaconference has ever been seriously evaluated in terms of its overall impacts on the water sector. This book is the first pioneering study to assess the impacts of the megaconferences on water policies, programs and projects at global, regional and national levels. The results are bleak. The evaluation indicated that except for the UN Water Conference, held in Argentina in 1977, the impacts of the subsequent megaconferences have been at best marginal in terms of knowledge generation and application, poverty alleviation, environmental conservation and /or increasing availability of investments funds for the water sector.
Editors and Affiliations
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Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico
Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector
Editors: Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada
Series Title: Water Resources Development and Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37224-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-37223-3Published: 25 February 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07207-9Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-37224-0Published: 20 February 2009
Series ISSN: 1614-810X
Series E-ISSN: 2198-316X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 276
Topics: Hydrogeology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental Economics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics