Ethical Water Stewardship

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.

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Understanding Water Ethics -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Valuing Water (Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Clifford Atleo) -- Chapter 2. Water and Ecological Ethics in the Anthropocene (Bruce Jennings and Kathryn Gwiazd) -- Chapter3. Contextualizing a Human Rights Perspective for Water Ethics: From Exploitation to Empowerment and Beyond (Alex Wellington) -- Chapter 4. Uses of Feminist Eco-criticism for Water Policy -- (Annette Louise Bickford) -- Chapter 5. Water, Stakeholder Values, and Decision Making (Bruce Morito) -- II. Place-based Challenges -- Introduction -- Chapter 6. The Ethics of Blue Urbanism (Timothy Beatley) -- Chapter 7. Water Security Challenges in the Canadian Arctic (Andrew Medeiros and Alannah Niemeyer) -- Chapter 8. First Nations, Traditional Knowledge, and Water Ethics (Deborah McGregor) -- Chapter 9. Water Ethics in the Middle East (Ilmas Futehally) -- Chapter 10. The Ethics of Water Securitization: Understanding the 1999 Bombing Campaign in Kosovo (James Horncastle) -- III. Contemporary Water Ethics: Policy and Decision Making.-Introduction -- Chapter 11. Water Pricing: A Strategy for Rights Fulfillment or Rights Vi…