Watershed politics and climate change in Peru /

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), an extractivist global water paradigm that views water as a finite resourc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stensrud, Astrid B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Pluto Press 2021.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subjects:
Water rights > Peru.
Water-supply > Political aspects > Peru.
Water-supply > Peru > Management.
Climatic changes > Peru.
Droits sur les eaux > Pérou.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Aspect politique > Pérou.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Pérou > Gestion.
Climat > Changements > Pérou.
Climatic changes
Water rights
Water-supply > Management
Water-supply > Political aspects
Peru
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : water and watershed politics
  • Engineering water flows
  • Colonising the desert
  • Water payments
  • Water uncertainties and disasters
  • Water efficiency
  • Legible and illegible water
  • Owning water
  • Conclusion : water multiplicity.

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