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Blue future : protecting water for people and the planet forever /

"In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations has r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barlow, Maude
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New Press, The, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Principle One: Water Is a Human Right; 1. The Case for the Right to Water; 2. The Fight for the Right to Water; 3. Implementing the Right to Water; 4. Paying for Water for All; Principle Two: Water Is a Common HerItage; 5. Water
  • Commons or Commodity?; 6. Targeting Public Water Services; 7. The Loss of the Water Commons Devastates Communities; 8. Reclaiming the Water Commons; Principle Three: Water Has Rights Too; 9. The Trouble with "Modern Water"; 10. Corporate Control of Farming Is Extinguishing Water; 11. Energy Demands Place an Unsustainable Burden on Water.
  • 12. Putting Water at the Centre of Our Lives; Principle Four: Water Can Teach Us How to LIve Together; 13. Confronting the Tyranny of the One Percent; 14. Creating a Just Economy; 15. Protecting Land, Protecting Water; 16. A Road Map to Conflict or to Peace?; Notes; Further ReadIng; Acknowledgements; Index.