Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal /

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This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated wat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carse, Ashley, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Colección:Infrastructures series.
Temas:
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Social conditions
Umweltschaden
Wasserreserve
Panama Canal (Panama) > Design and construction.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Social conditions.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Environmental aspects.
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) > Conditions sociales.
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) > Aspect de l'environnement.
Panama > Panama Canal
Panamakanal
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ENVIRONMENT/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The machete and the freighter
  • Monte
  • Making the Panama Canal Watershed
  • Frank Robinson's map
  • Life along the river (Miocene-1903)
  • Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction
  • Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river
  • Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone
  • Getting across and getting around
  • The highway : the world united, Panama divided
  • Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure
  • Weeds
  • A demanding environment.

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