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In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Björkman, Lisa, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Water-supply > India > Mumbai.
Waterworks > India > Mumbai.
Infrastructure (Economics) > India > Mumbai.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Inde > Mumbai.
Services d'eau > Inde > Mumbai.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Politics and government
Water-supply
Waterworks
Wasserwirtschaft
Infrastruktur
Stadtplanung
Infrastruktur.
Politik.
Vattenförsörjning.
Vattenverk.
Mumbai (India) > Politics and government.
India > Mumbai
Mumbai
Indien > Mumbai.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations
Premios:Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.
ISBN:9780822375210
0822375214

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