The Fluvial Imagination On Lesotho's Water-Export Economy

Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first ";water-exporting country"; when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate network of dams and tunnels now carries water to Johannesburg, the subcont...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoag, Colin, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press 2022
[2022]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684792806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Water Production
  • 2 The Soil Problem
  • 3 The Soil Solution
  • 4 Bureaucratic Ecology
  • 5 Livestock Production
  • 6 Negative Ecology
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Works Cited
  • Index