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Signs of water : community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope /
" A global exploration of water, bringing together academics and experts from five continents to illuminate the many issues facing the world's most important resource. Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary, Alberta :
University of Calgary Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Arts in action ;
no. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | " A global exploration of water, bringing together academics and experts from five continents to illuminate the many issues facing the world's most important resource. Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, neglect, and commodification. There is no place on the planet where water is not, or will not be, of critical concern. Signs of Water brings together scholars and experts from five continents in an interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical approaches, social and political issues, and anthropogenic hazards surrounding water in the twenty-first century. From the kitchen taps of Detroit, Michigan to the water-harvesting infrastructure of Tokyo, from India's Trambraparni River to the Upper Xingu Basin of Brazil to the Sunda Deep of the Java Trench, these essays flow through time and place to uncover the many issues surrounding water today. Asking key theoretical questions, exposing threats to vital water systems, and proposing paths forward, Signs of Water brims with histories, ontologies, and political struggles. Bringing together local experiences to tell a global story, it centers water as history, as politics, and as a human right."-- |
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| Notas: | The book is an edited collection that grew out of the Under Western Skies conference held at the Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta, from September 27-30, 2016. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) : color illustrations, maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781773852355 1773852353 1773852361 9781773852379 177385237X 9781773852362 |
| ISSN: | 2371-6142 ; |