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Ethical Water Stewardship

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Editors:
  1. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

    1. Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  2. Zafar Adeel

    1. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

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  • Provides a clear, non-specialist introduction to key concepts in the newly-emerging area of water ethics
  • Links philosophical theory with actual, contemporary case studies
  • For the first time, links issues of water ethics to challenges of resource and environmental security

Part of the book series: Water Security in a New World (WSEC)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Valuing Water

      • Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Clifford Atleo
      Pages 3-21

    3. Water and Ecological Ethics in the Anthropocene

      • Bruce Jennings, Kathryn [Kintzele] Gwiazdon
      Pages 23-41

    4. Contextualizing a Human Rights Perspective for Water Ethics: From Exploitation to Empowerment and Beyond

      • Alex Wellington
      Pages 43-77

    5. Uses of Feminist Eco-Criticism for Water Policy

      • Annette Louise Bickford
      Pages 79-94

    6. Water, Stakeholder Values, and Decision Making

      • Bruce Morito
      Pages 95-110

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-112
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    2. The Ethics of Blue Urbanism

      • Timothy Beatley
      Pages 113-132

    3. Water Security Challenges in the Canadian Arctic

      • Andrew S. Medeiros, Alannah Niemeyer
      Pages 133-145

    4. First Nations, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Ethics

      • Deborah McGregor
      Pages 147-163

    5. Water Ethics in the Middle East

      • Ilmas Futehally
      Pages 165-178

    6. The Ethics of Water Securitization: Understanding the 1999 Bombing Campaign in Kosovo

      • James Horncastle
      Pages 179-194
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About this book

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales.

Water security, which pertains to the experience of assured access to clean water, is a broad concept that intersects human rights, politics, economics, law, legislation, public health, trade, agriculture, and energy. Decisions made at each of these intersection points have ramifications for human well being, especially for the populations that are marginalized in a societal and political sense. In this book, the ethical dimensions of decision-making at those intersection points are explored, and real-world examples are used to tease out some key insights. It charts how ethical consideration can help shape a future in which everyone will be water secure.




 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Zafar Adeel

About the editors

​Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is an author and consultant in environmental and institutional change management. A former professor and dean of the Faculty of Environment at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, she is also professor emerita, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, where she spent the majority of her career teaching and conducting research on how values and perceptions affect public policy, planning, and environmental decision making. Dr Stefanovic has served as executive co-director of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy and senior scholar at the Center for Humans & Nature, Chicago and New York. Recent books include Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development, the co-edited volume The Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment and The Wonder of Water: Lived Experience, Policy and Practice.

Zafar Adeel is the Executive Director PWRC and Professor of Professional Practice at SFU. His 25-year work experience covers a range of environmental and policy issues, including 18 years as a senior UN official.



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