What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction /

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"We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Linton, Jamie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010]
Colección:Nature, history, society.
Temas:
Whitman College > Memorial bookplates > Class of 1940.
Water.
Hydrologic cycle.
Water > History.
Water > Environmental aspects.
Water > Social aspects.
Water
Eau.
Cycle hydrologique.
Eau > Histoire.
Eau > Aspect de l'environnement.
Eau > Aspect social.
aquatic.
water (inorganic material)
NATURE > Natural Resources.
NATURE > Rocks & Minerals.
Hydrologic cycle
Water > Environmental aspects
Water > Social aspects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fixing the flow : the things we make of water
  • Relational dialectics : putting things in fluid terms
  • Intimations of modern water
  • From premodern waters to modern water
  • The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred
  • The Hortonian hydrologic cycle
  • Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state
  • Culmination : global water
  • The constitution of modern water
  • Modern water in crisis
  • Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime"
  • Hydrolectics.

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