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The social life of water /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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: Women and Water; 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, PunjabChapter 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 PerspectiveChapter 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.