Politics of fresh water : access, conflict and identity / edited by Catherine M. Ashcraft and Tamar Mayer.

GBP 115/-
TBH86/209

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The politics of fresh water : setting the stage / Tamar Mayer and Catherine M. Ashcraft -- Ancient Roman water rights and commons theory / Cynthia J. Bannon -- Legal mobilization and the politics of water pollution : the case of the Matanza-Riachuelo basin in Argentina / Daniel Ryan and Andrés Napoli -- Does river basin governance mean wider access to river management? : a long-term perspective from the Tennessee, Columbia, and Connecticut rivers / Eve Vogel -- Shifting currents in water diplomacy : negotiating conflict in the Danube and Nile River basins / Catherine M. Ashcraft -- The era of big dam building : it ain't over 'til it's over / Francis J. Magilligan, Chris S. Sneddon, and Coleen A. Fox -- Oil and water don't mix : impacts of oil and gas development on Sakhalin's water resources / Jessica K. Graybill -- The plight of New Zealand's watersheds / Michael Vincent McGinnis -- Cultural water wars : power and hegemony in the semiotics of water / David Groenfeldt -- Theorizing gender, ethnic difference, and inequality in relation to water access and politics in southeastern Turkey / Leila M. Harris -- Water, life, and community in the arid realm : the curious case of Karez and Acequia / Daanish Mustafa -- The politics of muddled waters in Gujarat : a religious nationalist development model's treatment of water / Pushpa Iyer -- In hidden view : how water became a catalyst for indigenous farmworker resistance in Baja California, Mexico / Marcos Lopez -- 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.