Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse

• Autore: Carse Ashley <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.87/505
• Soggetto geografico: Panama Canal (Panama) Design and construction; Panama Canal (Panama) Social conditions; Panama Canal (Panama) Environmental aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The machete and the freighter -- Monte -- Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- Frank Robinson's map -- Life along the river (Miocene-1903) -- Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction -- Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river -- Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Getting across and getting around -- The highway : the world united, Panama divided -- Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure -- Weeds -- A demanding environment.
• Sommario/riassunto: This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the big ditch
• ISBN: 0-262-32046-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463811103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Infrastructures series.