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245 _aPolitics of fresh water: access, conflict and identity /
_cedited by Catherine M. Ashcraft
260 _bTaylor and Francis/Routledge,
_c2017.
_aOxon:
300 _axiv, 244 p.
490 _aEarthscan series in water resource management
505 _a1.The politics of fresh water : setting the stage / Tamar Mayer and Catherine M. Ashcraft -- 2.Ancient Roman water rights and commons theory / Cynthia J. Bannon -- 3.Legal mobilization and the politics of water pollution : the case of the Matanza-Riachuelo basin in Argentina / Daniel Ryan and Andrés Napoli -- 4.Does river basin governance mean wider access to river management? : a long-term perspective from the Tennessee, Columbia, and Connecticut rivers / Eve Vogel -- 5.Shifting currents in water diplomacy : negotiating conflict in the Danube and Nile River basins / Catherine M. Ashcraft -- 6.The era of big dam building : it ain't over 'til it's over / Francis J. Magilligan, Chris S. Sneddon, and Coleen A. Fox -- 7.Oil and water don't mix : impacts of oil and gas development on Sakhalin's water resources / Jessica K. Graybill -- 8.The plight of New Zealand's watersheds / Michael Vincent McGinnis -- 9.Cultural water wars : power and hegemony in the semiotics of water / David Groenfeldt -- 10.Theorizing gender, ethnic difference, and inequality in relation to water access and politics in southeastern Turkey / Leila M. Harris -- 11.Water, life, and community in the arid realm : the curious case of Karez and Acequia / Daanish Mustafa -- 12.The politics of muddled waters in Gujarat : a religious nationalist development model's treatment of water / Pushpa Iyer -- 13.In hidden view : how water became a catalyst for indigenous farmworker resistance in Baja California, Mexico / Marcos Lopez -- 14.From management to governance : rethinking water policy and privatization on Easter Island / Maria Alessandra Woolson -- Strange waters : from confluence to vortex in the Los Angeles Basin / T.S. McMillin.
520 _ahe book analyzes responses to the water crisis as efforts to mitigate water insecurity and as expressions of collective identity that legitimate, resist, or seek to transform existing inequalities. The chapters focus on different processes that contribute to freshwater scarcity, including land use decisions, pollution, privatization, damming, climate change, discrimination, water management institutions and technology. Case studies are included from North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and New Zealand.
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