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Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector

:	Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada
:	Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9783540372240
:	1
:	CHF 74.20
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:	Sonstiges
:	English

:	276
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The book is the first pioneering study to assess the impacts of the megaconferences on water policies, programmes 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 synthesis, poverty alleviation, and/or environmental conservation.

	Preface	5
	Contents	8
	List of Contributors	13
	PART I: OVERALL ANALYSIS	15
	1 Impacts of Megaconferences on Global Water Development and Management	16
	1.1 Introduction	16
	1.2 Mar del Plata in Retrospect	18
	1.3 Absence of Water in the International Agenda after Mar del Plata	21
	1.4 World Commission for Water	23
	1.5 First and Second World Water Forums	26
	1.6 Bonn Conference and Johannesburg Summit	29
	1.7 Third World Water Forum	30
	1.8 Comparison of Three Forums	31
	1.9 Concluding Remarks	33
	References	34
	2 Mega United Nations Conferences: Help or Hindrance?	36
	2.1 Approach	36
	2.2 Introduction	36
	2.3 Two Case Studies: The Millennium Development Conference and the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy	42
	2.4 The Barriers to Effective Action	50
	2.5 If No Mega Conferences, What Are the Alternatives?	57
	Bibliography	61
	3 Global Water Initiatives: What Do the Experts Think?	66
	3.1 Introduction	66
	3.2 What Are Global Water Initiatives and Why Study Them?	67
	3.3 Background	69
	3.4 Methodology	76
	3.5 Survey Findings and Interpretation	83
	3.6 Conclusions	104
	Acknowledgements	107
	References	107
	Appendices	110
	4 Global Water Conferences: A Personal Reflection	115
	4.1 Introduction	115
	4.2 First World Water Forum, Marrakech, 1997	115
	4.3 International Conference on Water and Sustainable Development, Paris, 1998	116
	4.4 Second World Water Forum, The Hague, 2000	116
	4.5 Millennium Summit, New York, 2000	117
	4.6 International Conference on Freshwater, Bonn, 2001	117
	4.7 Worl