Water Communication

Celine Herve-Bazin

• Publisher: IWA Publishing
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781780405223
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Applied Sciences
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Water Communication aims at setting a first general outlook at what communication on water means, who communicates and on what topics. Through different examples and based on different research and contributions, this book presents an original first overview of "water communication". It sets its academic value as one distinct scientific domain and provides tips and practical tools to professionals. The book contributes to avoid mixing messages, targets and discourses when setting communication related to water issues. The book facilitates coordination within the water sector and its organizations as water is a wide field of applications where inadequate words and language understanding between its stakeholders is one of the main obstacles today.
Water Communication provides and describes: a general outlook and retrospective of the history of the water sector in terms of communication the landscape of organizations communicating on water and classification of topics the differences between communication, information, mediation, raising awareness examples of communication campaigns on water Water Communication is a vital resource for communication managers, utility managers, policy makers involved in water management and students in water sciences and environment.
Colour figures from the book are available to view on the WaterWiki at: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/WaterCommunicationAnalysisofStrategiesandCampaignsfromtheWaterSector
Editor: Celine Herve-Bazin, Celsa - Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword to “Water Communication”
• Main Results
• 1 Scope of Water Communication
• 2 History of Water Communication
• 3 From water epistemology to slogans
• 4 Research Areas
• 5 Overview of Main Senders
• 6 Inter-National level Setting the agenda
• 7 Global level: Framing stories
• 8 National-Regional Level: Interfacing Communities
• 9 Local-Community level: Raising public awareness
• 10 Conclusion
• References
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• Index of Figures
• Annex 1 Methodology
• Annex 2 International Water Chronology
• Annex 3: List of guides to communication campaigns on water and related topics
• Annex 4: List of “water campaigns”