1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455552903321

Autore

Green Dorothy <1929->

Titolo

Managing water [[electronic resource] ] : avoiding crisis in California / / Dorothy Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

9786612360121

1-282-36012-4

0-520-94122-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

363.6/109794

Soggetti

Water-supply - California - Management

Water quality - California

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Los Angeles Area Water Supplies -- 2. Water Management: Who's in Charge? -- 3. Water Use Efficiency -- 4. Drinking Water Quality -- 5. State Policy and the Los Angeles Area -- GLOSSARY -- NATIVE PLANT RESOURCES -- WEBSITES OF INTEREST -- SUGGESTED READINGS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy. This book describes how the current system works (or doesn't work) and discusses the issues that face elected officials, water and resource managers, and the general public. Using the Los Angeles area as a microcosm of the state, environmental activist Dorothy Green gathers detailed information on its water systems and applies the lessons learned from this data statewide. A useful primer on watershed and water policy issues, this book provides reasoned, thoughtful, and insightful arguments about sustainability.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910367560703321

Autore

Atwood David

Titolo

Schwellenzeiten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baden-Baden, : Ergon Verlag, 2019

ISBN

3-95650-613-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Diskurs Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Describing the boundaries of what society conceives as 'religion' means establishing a social order with its respective areas of politics, law, or science. These areas are sometimes opposed to what we conceal as 'religion'. In this book, the social boundaries of religion are explored with a specific focus on threshold narratives in the contemporary history of religion. Threshold narratives, as mythopoetic forms of social self-description, are used to describe a new origin that not only includes a diagnosis, but also proposes a therapy to treat the diagnosed crisis. The positioning and limitation of religion in these threshold narratives is the condition that makes 'religion' governable. The analysis follows different metaphors of European religious history: the 'end', the 'axis' and the 'hour zero'.