Stina Hansson

Litteraturvetenskap är ett ämne där perspektivförskjutningarna varit märkbara under de gångna decennierna, vilket avspeglades i första upplagan av denna bok (1998). Sedan dess har utvecklingen gått vidare så att det nu är dags för en ny, reviderad upplaga, utökad med två nyskrivna kapitel om retorik och narratologi. Övriga områden och frågeställningar som tas upp är utvecklingen från litteraturhistoria till litteraturvetenskap, vad en litterär text är, litteratur och idéer, intertextualitet, komparation och reception, biografisk litteraturforskning, litteratursociologi, marxistisk litteraturteori, feministisk litteraturkritik, barnlitteraturforskning, dekonstruktion och nyhistoricism, texttolkning och att skriva om litteratur. Boken, som främst vänder sig till studerande vid universitet och högskolor, ger en grundläggande orientering om de viktigaste riktningarna i dagens litteraturforskning. Andra upplagan

Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways – adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.

Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in three distinct ways – adapt, resist (as in avoiding the issue) and subvert (as in using the debate to fulfil their own agenda). The book charts approaches which have been taken over the past two decades to promote more effective water management institutions, covering issues of conflict, cooperation, power and law. A new framework for a better understanding of the interaction between transboundary water management institutional resilience and global change is developed through analysis of the way these institutions respond to the climate change debate. This framework is applied to six river case studies from Africa, Asia and the Middle East (Ganges-Brahmaputra, Jordan, Mekong, Niger, Nile, Orange-Senqu) from which learning conclusions and policy recommendations are developed.