Contemporary water governance in the global south : scarcity, marketization and participation / / edited by Leila Harris, Jacqueline A. Goldin and Christopher Sneddon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465684803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-135-12505-8; 0-203-07636-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (561 p.)
• Collana: Earthscan studies in water resource management
• Altri autori (Persone): GoldinJacqueline; HarrisLeila; SneddonChristopher
• Disciplina: 333.91009172/4
• Soggetti: Water-supply - Developing countries - Management; Water resources development - Developing countries; Water rights - Developing countries; Water security - Developing countries; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Integrating hegemony : social and biophysical perspectives -- pt. 2. Crisis and scarcity -- pt. 3. Marketization and privatization -- pt. 4. Participation -- pt. 5. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gai

Empire and nation / / edited by Forrest McDonald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965210603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Indianapolis, Ind., : Liberty Fund, c1999
• ISBN: 1-61487-831-5
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DickinsonJohn <1732-1808.>; LeeRichard Henry <1732-1794.>; McDonaldForrest
• Disciplina: 973.3/11
• Soggetti: United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes; Great Britain Colonies America Administration; Great Britain Colonies America Economic policy
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania / John Dickinson -- Letters from the Federal farmer / Richard Henry Lee.
• Sommario/riassunto: Two series of letters that have been described as "the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States" are collected in this volume. The writings include "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania"--the "farmer" being the gifted and courageous statesman John Dickinson and "Letters from the Federal Farmer"--he being the redoubtable Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. Together, Dickinson and Lee addressed the whole remarkable range of issues provoked by the crisis of British policies in North America, a crisis from which a new nation emerged from an overreaching empire. Dickinson wrote his "Letters" in opposition to the Townshend Acts by which the British Parliament in 1767 proposed to reorganize colonial customs. The publication of the "Letters" was, as Philip Davidson believes, "the most brilliant literary event of the entire Revolution." Forrest McDonald adds, "Their impact and their circulation were unapproached by any publication of the revolutionary period except Thomas Paine's "Common Sense."" Lee wrote in 1787 as an Anti-Federalist, and his "Letters" gained, as Charles Warren has noted, "much more widespread circulation and influence" than even the ; heralded "Federalist Papers." Both sets of "Letters" deal, McDonald points out, "with the same question: the never-ending problem of the distribution of power in a broad and complex federal system." The Liberty Fund second edition includes a new preface by the editor in which he responds to research since the original edition of 1962.Forrest McDonald is Professor of History at the University of Alabama and author also of "E Pluribus Unum, " among other works.