The Struggle For Water
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The Struggle For Water
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Author : Wendy Nelson Espeland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1998-09
The Struggle For Water written by Wendy Nelson Espeland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Nearly fifty years ago, the Bureau of Reclamation proposed building a dam at the confluence of two rivers in Central Arizona. While the dam would bring valuable water to this arid plain, it would also destroy a wildlife habitat, flood archaeological sites, and force the Yavapai Indians off their ancestral home. The Struggle for Water is not only the fascinating story of this controversial and ultimately thwarted public works project but also a study of rationality as a cultural, organizational, and political construct. In the 1970s, the three groups most intimately involved in the Orme Dam—younger Bureau of Reclamation employees committed to "rational choice" decision making, older Bureau engineers committed to the dam, and the Yavapai community—all found themselves and their values transformed by their struggles. Wendy Nelson Espeland lays bare the relations between interests and identities that emerged during the conflict, creating a contemporary tale of power and colonization, bureaucracies and democratic practice, that asks the crucial question of what it means to be "rational."
The Struggle For Water
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Author : Aaron Fishbone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Struggle For Water written by Aaron Fishbone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Privatization categories.
"The Struggle for Water brings together a wide variety of materials on the issues and controversies surrounding the complex subject of water ownership and freshwater privatization. - It presents a general overview of the state of the world's freshwater and offers articles on both sides of the privatization controversy. Sections also deal with cooperation and conflict over water resources, international trade in water, and the role of dams. The anthology also includes a six-part debate on the issue. - The work concludes with an appendix of primary documents on important aspects of the topic. - A general introduction and introductory essays to each chapter give the reader the necessary background to put the issue in perspective."--Jacket.
The Struggle For Water In Peru
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Author : Paul B. Trawick
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2003
The Struggle For Water In Peru written by Paul B. Trawick and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.
This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and canal systems date back to Inca times. Set in a remote valley, the book tells a story of domination and resulting social decline, showing how basic changes in the use of land, water, and labor have been pivotal in transforming the indigenous way of life. The author carries out a comparison of contemporary practices in communities that vary systematically along certain dimensions. He analyzes the communities’ similarities and differences in hydraulic organization, landscaping, water use, and other variables. Strikingly diverse patterns appear in local practice, which prove to be the key to unraveling the area’s history. The book concludes by describing the recent intensification of a water conflict. This struggle between peasants and former landlords ultimately led villagers to rise up against the national government. The story culminates in the violent intrusion of the revolutionary group known as Shining Path.
Water Struggle
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Author : V.J. John
language : en
Publisher: ISPCK
Release Date : 2007
Water Struggle written by V.J. John and has been published by ISPCK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Water categories.
Papers presented at the Inter-disciplinary Seminar on Water, held at Kolkata during 20-21November 2003.
Water
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Author : Steven Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-12-16
Water written by Steven Solomon and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-16 with Science categories.
“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history.” —Bill McKibben In Water, esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifying—and all too real—world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of the world. Meticulously researched and undeniably prescient, Water is a stunningly clear-eyed action statement on what Robert F Kennedy, Jr. calls “the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time.”
Rivers Of Eden
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Author : Daniel Hillel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-12-01
Rivers Of Eden written by Daniel Hillel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-12-01 with Political Science categories.
The Right To Water
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Author : Farhana Sultana
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
The Right To Water written by Farhana Sultana and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist. Bringing together a unique range of academics, policy-makers and activists, the book analyzes how struggles for the right to water have attempted to translate moral arguments over access to safe water into workable claims. This book is an intervention at a crucial moment into the shape and future direction of struggles for the right to water in a range of political, geographic and socio-economics contexts, seeking to be pro-active in defining what this struggle could mean and how it might be taken forward in a far broader transformative politics. The Right to Water engages with a range of approaches that focus on philosophical, legal and governance perspectives before seeking to apply these more abstract arguments to an array of concrete struggles and case studies. In so doing, the book builds on empirical examples from Africa, Asia, Oceania, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and the European Union.
Deep Water
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Author : Jacques Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2007-05-15
Deep Water written by Jacques Leslie and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-15 with Nature categories.
"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank The giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster. With Deep Water, Jacques Leslie offers a searching account of the current crisis over dams and the world's water. An emerging master of long-form reportage, Leslie makes the crisis vivid through the stories of three distinctive figures: Medha Patkar, an Indian activist who opposes a dam that will displace thousands of people in western India; Thayer Scudder, an American anthropologist who studies the effects of giant dams on the peoples of southern Africa; and Don Blackmore, an Australian water manager who struggles to reverse the effects of drought so as to allow Australia to continue its march to California-like prosperity. Taking the reader to the sites of controversial dams, Leslie shows why dams are at once the hope of developing nations and a blight on their people and landscape. Deep Water is an incisive, beautifully written, and deeply disquieting report on a conflict that threatens to divide the world in the coming years.
Water Brings No Harm
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Author : Matthew V. Bender
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Water Brings No Harm written by Matthew V. Bender and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with History categories.
In Water Brings No Harm, Matthew V. Bender explores the history of community water management on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Kilimanjaro’s Chagga-speaking peoples have long managed water by employing diverse knowledge: hydrological, technological, social, cultural, and political. Since the 1850s, they have encountered groups from beyond the mountain—colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, the independent Tanzanian state, development agencies, and climate scientists—who have understood water differently. Drawing on the concept of waterscapes—a term that describes how people “see” water, and how physical water resources intersect with their own beliefs, needs, and expectations—Bender argues that water conflicts should be understood as struggles between competing forms of knowledge. Water Brings No Harm encourages readers to think about the origins and interpretation of knowledge and development in Africa and the global south. It also speaks to the current global water crisis, proposing a new model for approaching sustainable water development worldwide.
The Struggle For Water In The Andes
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Author : Paul B. Trawick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Struggle For Water In The Andes written by Paul B. Trawick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Hydrology categories.