Main description:

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.

Contents:

AcknowledgementsPreface

Introduction

I. Understanding Water Ethics

Introduction

1. Valuing Water - Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Clifford Atleo

Water and Ecological Ethics in the Anthropocene - Bruce Jennings and Kathryn Gwiazd
Contextualizing a Human Rights Perspective for Water Ethics: From Exploitation to Empowerment and Beyond - Alex Wellington
Uses of Feminist Eco-criticism for Water Policy - Annette Louise Bickford

Water, Stakeholder Values, and Decision Making - Bruce Morito

II. Place-based Challenges

Introduction

The Ethics of Blue Urbanism - Timothy Beatley
Water Security Challenges in the Canadian Arctic - Andrew Medeiros and Alannah Niemeyer
First Nations, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Ethics - Deborah McGregor
Water Ethics in the Middle East - Ilmas Futehally
The Ethics of Water Securitization: Understanding the 1999 Bombing Campaign in Kosovo - James Horncastle

III. Contemporary Water Ethics: Policy and Decision Making

Introduction

Water Pricing: A Strategy for Rights Fulfillment or Rights Violation - Kerry Ellen O'Neill
Ethics of Infrastructure Reinvestment - Rebecca Dziedzic
Philosophical Issues in Water Law - Graham Mayeda
Ideas, Values, and Ethics: Integrating a Values-based Approach into Water Policy in Canada - Carolyn Johns
Streams of Consciousness: New Demands on Philosophy and Water Policy in a Crowded World - Deborah Harford
Ethical Dimensions of the Water-related International Development Agenda - Zafar Adeel

Conclusion

Ethics of Shaping Water Futures - Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Zafar Adeel