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Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Armstrong, Jeannette (Contribuidor), Brara, Rita (Contribuidor), Brewis, Alexandra (Contribuidor), Bruns, Bryan (Contribuidor), De Burgos, Hugo (Contribuidor), Donahue, John M. (Contribuidor), Leonard, Liam (Contribuidor), Li, Fabiana (Contribuidor), Mehta, Lyla (Contribuidor), Naguib, Nefissa (Contribuidor), Osumanu, Issaka Kanton (Contribuidor), Sam, Marlowe (Contribuidor), Sigurdsson, Sveinn (Contribuidor), Smith, Sarah C. (Contribuidor), Stotts, Rhian (Contribuidor), Strang, Veronica (Contribuidor), Veeravalli, Swathi (Contribuidor), Wagner, John R. (Editor ), Wagner, John Richard (Contribuidor), Wutich, Amber (Contribuidor), York, Abigail (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]
Temas:
Water > Economic aspects.
Water > Social aspects.
Water > Symbolic aspects.
NATURE / Natural Resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part I COMMODIFICATION
  • Chapter 1 CONTESTING EQUIVALENCES Controversies over Water and Mining in Peru and Chile
  • Chapter 2 DAM NATION Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling
  • Chapter 3 WATER AND ILL-BEING Displaced People and Dam-Based Development in India
  • Part II WATER AND TECHNOLOGY
  • Chapter 4 AESTHETICS OF A RELATIONSHIP
  • Chapter 5 LA PILA DE SAN JUAN Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador
  • Chapter 6 NOT SO BORING Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab
  • Chapter 7 KENYAN LANDSCAPE, IDENTITY, AND ACCESS
  • Part III URBANIZATION
  • Chapter 8 HEALTH CHALLENGES OF URBAN POVERTY AND WATER SUPPLY IN NORTHERN GHANA
  • Chapter 9 THE RISK OF WATER Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia
  • Chapter 10 THE WATER CRISIS IN IRELAND The Sociopolitical Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society
  • Part IV GOVERNANCE
  • Chapter 11 FAIRNESS AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER A Preliminary Cross-Cultural Theory
  • Chapter 12 INDIGENOUS WATER GOVERNANCE AND RESISTANCE A Syilx Perspective
  • Chapter 13 BUREAUCRATIC BRICOLAGE AND ADAPTIVE COMANAGEMENT IN INDONESIAN IRRIGATION
  • Chapter 14 ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT OF THE EDWARDS AQUIFER IN TEXAS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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