Signs of water : community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope

Signs of water community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Boschman, Robert, 1961- editor (editor), Jakubec, Sonya L., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press [2022]
Colección:Arts in action.
Materias:
Water.
Water conservation.
Environmental protection.
Detroit.
climate security.
community based natural resource management.
cultural diversity.
environmental degradation.
environmental justice.
future of water.
global water systems.
human rights.
indigenous water access.
lakes.
oceans.
plant healing.
politics of water.
ponds.
public policy.
race and water.
rain.
rivers.
social inequality.
water access.
water law.
water policy.
water pollution.
water rights.
water security.
water systems.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 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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