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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155134503321

Titolo

The politics of fresh water : access, conflict and identity / / edited by Catherine M. Ashcraft and Tamar Mayer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-50997-8

1-315-71743-3

1-317-50998-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Earthscan studies in water resource management

Altri autori (Persone)

AshcraftCatherine M

MayerTamar <1952->

Disciplina

333.91

Soggetti

Water-supply - Political aspects

Water resources development - Political aspects

Watershed management - Political aspects

Water security - Political aspects

Water rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The politics of fresh water : setting the stage / Tamar Mayer and Catherine M. Ashcraft -- Ancient Roman water rights and commons theory / Cynthia J. Bannon -- Legal mobilization and the politics of water pollution : the case of the Matanza-Riachuelo basin in Argentina / Daniel Ryan and AndreĢs Napoli -- Does river basin governance mean wider access to river management? : a long-term perspective from the Tennessee, Columbia, and Connecticut rivers / Eve Vogel -- Shifting currents in water diplomacy : negotiating conflict in the Danube and Nile River basins / Catherine M. Ashcraft -- The era of big dam building : it ain't over 'til it's over / Francis J. Magilligan, Chris S. Sneddon, and Coleen A. Fox -- Oil and water don't mix : impacts of oil and gas development on Sakhalin's water resources / Jessica K. Graybill -- The plight of New Zealand's watersheds / Michael Vincent McGinnis -- Cultural water wars : power and hegemony in the semiotics of water / David Groenfeldt -- Theorizing gender, ethnic difference, and inequality in relation to water access and politics in southeastern



Turkey / Leila M. Harris -- Water, life, and community in the arid realm : the curious case of Karez and Acequia / Daanish Mustafa -- The politics of muddled waters in Gujarat : a religious nationalist development model's treatment of water / Pushpa Iyer -- In hidden view : how water became a catalyst for indigenous farmworker resistance in Baja California, Mexico / Marcos Lopez -- From management to governance : rethinking water policy and privatization on Easter Island / Maria Alessandra Woolson -- Strange waters : from confluence to vortex in the Los Angeles Basin / T.S. McMillin.