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Blue ethics : ethical perspectives on sustainable, fair water resources use and management

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Girardin, Benoît
Fiechter-Widemann, Evelyne
Workshop for Water Ethics (W4W)
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Girardin, Benoît
Fiechter-Widemann, Evelyne
Workshop for Water Ethics (W4W)
Keywords
right to food
right to water
pollution
social justice
sustainable development
water management
water ethics
GE Subjects
Environmental ethics
Governance and ethics
Resources ethics
Development ethics
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Praxis Series
Environmental Ethics
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/667727
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Abstract
For many policy makers, urban managers, water experts, technicians or activists, ethical perspectives in water management are not important or do not bring any added value. A debate seems to be locked between those stressing mainly the right of access to water for all and those who cannot go beyond economic realism. The sustainable use of a resource that becomes under growing pressure, in terms of extraction, allocation and recycling looks as a technical issue, not to say a technocratic one. This collective book claims the opposite. The many issues faced by the access to water as well as the sustainable use of the resource rely on open negotiations, settling conflicts, tariffs structure while expanding delivery and managing fairly water' scarcity in all these processes, ethical values do matter.
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Exists also in French, Spanish and Chinese.
With the collaboration of members of Workshop for Water Ethics association (W4W).
Contains annex:Water ethics principles and guidelines / endorsed by Globethics.net Board (pp. 239-262).
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Book
Date
2019
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9782889313082
9782889313099
DOI
10.58863/20.500.12424/667727
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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