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UNINA9910585980803321 |
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Signs of water : community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope / / edited by Robert Boschman and Sonya L. Jakubec |
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Calgary, Alberta : , : University of Calgary Press, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1 online resource (440 pages) |
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Water |
Water conservation |
Environmental protection |
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Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. IMMERSIONS: From Water Imaginaries to Wild Swimming -- Introduction -- 1 | Water Imagination in Anthropology: On Plant Healing Matters -- 2 | Aquatic Insights from Roger Deakin's Waterlog -- II. FORMATIONS: Water as LifeBlood -- Introduction -- 3 | Water Formations, Water Neutrality, and Water Shutoffs: Posthumanism in the Wake of Racial Slavery -- 4 | When Water Isn't Life: Environmental Justice Denied -- 5 | Indigenous Stories and the Fraser River: Intercultural Dialogue for Public Decision-Making -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- III. HISTORIES: On Four Continents -- Introduction -- 6 | Unexpected Connections? Water Security, Law, Social Inequality, Disrespect for Cultural Diversity, and Environmental Degradation in the Upper Xingu Basin -- 7 | Community-Based Natural Resources Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Barriers to Sustainable Community Water Supply Management in Northwest Cameroon -- Appendix -- 8 | Taming the Tambraparni River: Reservoirs, Hydro-Electric Power Generation, and Raising Fish in South India -- 9 | A Tale of Two Watersheds in the Mackenzie River Basin: Linking Land Use Planning to the Hydroscape -- IV. INTERVENTIONS: Thinking and Being with Water -- Introduction -- 10 | On Not Having Invented the Wheel: A |
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Meditation on Invention, Land, and Water -- 11 | Instructions for Being Water: A Performance Score -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- 12 | The Red Alert Project -- V. RESPONSES: Two Canadian Community Models -- Introduction -- 13 | Ghost Story: A Community Organizing Model of Changemaking -- 14 | The New Thunderbirds: The Waters of Uranium City, Saskatchewan -- VI. IMPLEMENTATION:An Engineering Application for Global Climate Change -- Introduction. |
15 | Large-Scale Water Harvesting: An Application Model in the Time ofAccelerating Global Climate Change -- Contributors -- Back Cover. |
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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 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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UNINA9910737388903321 |
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Autore |
Dunn Nick |
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Flourish by Design |
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2023 |
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Milton : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2023 |
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©2024 |
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1-00-339956-8 |
1-000-96865-0 |
1-003-39956-8 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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ARC004000ARC018000DES000000 |
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CruickshankLeon |
CoupeGemma |
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Design - Social aspects |
Design - Research |
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Designing for sustainability is all about the future. As a discipline, design is rightly concerned with bringing about positive change for the long-term flourishing of the planet. From atomic bomb fallouts to shampoo microplastics, the Earth's environmental woes are indelibly linked to modern societies overconsumption of resources and the mass-waste that this creates, particularly Global North countries across Europe and North America. In an effort to curb their impacts, many of these country's governments signed the Paris Agreement in 2015 with the collective goal of keeping global temperature increases to a maximum of 1.5 °C, as well as pledging to meet ambitious Net-Zero carbon emission reduction targets by the year 2050. Despite this growing consensus, how we collectively go about instigating the vital societal, economic, and technological transformations needed to move beyond the current Anthropocene remains a contentious issue. Resultantly, the dialogues that surround sustainability - both broadly and within the field of design - can often deviate into two opposing |
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silos: one which frames 'the future' as a sustainable utopia and the other an unsustainable dystopia. Given their long-standing power and influence in shaping the modern world, technologies sit at the heart of this dichotomy. |
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