Water conflicts hydrocracy in the Americas : coalitions, networks, policies

Franck Poupeau (1) , Lala Razafimahefa (2) , Jérémy Robert (3) , Delphine Mercier (4, 5) , Gilles Massardier (6, 7) , Pedro Jacobi (8)

1 iGLOBES - Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies
2 UMR ART-Dev - Acteurs, Ressources et Territoires dans le Développement
3 IFEA - Institut Français d'Etudes Andines
4 LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail
5 CEMCA UMIFRE16 - Centre d'études mexicaines et centroaméricaines
6 TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique
7 Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
8 PROCAM - Programa de Pós graduação em Ciência Ambiental

This book develops an international comparative approach to water conflicts in several American cities (USA, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia). Struggles for water can be related to different issues: increase in water prices, installation of water catchment systems, negotiations of commissioning contracts, promotion of municipal plans for water delivery, etc. Such conflicts tend to structure coalitions which, in turn, influence policy-making; they impact local orders that are embedded at multiple levels of social practices; they involve most of the environmental and political institutions of a city or a country. In order to understand how these hydrocracies work, this book proposes a new framework of analysis taking into account the beliefs of the protagonists of the conflicts, their positions in the policy networks and their social characteristics.

Mots clés: Coalitions; Conflicts; Americas; Policies; Hydrocracy; Network; Water

Domaines: Gestion et management; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Science politique; Géographie; Sociologie

Franck Poupeau, Lala Razafimahefa, Delphine Mercier, Gilles Massardier, Pedro Jacobi (Dir.). Water conflicts hydrocracy in the Americas : coalitions, networks, policies. IEE-USP, pp.444, 2018, 978-85-86923-49-4. ⟨halshs-01914315⟩