Water Security Across the Gender Divide

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fröhlich, Christiane (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gioli, Giovanna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cremades, Roger (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Myrttinen, Henri (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Water Security in a New World,
• Subjects: Sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Environmental management.; Gender Studies.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.

This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities: it depends not...