Water, culture, and power : local struggles in a global context
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-375) and index. |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
[1998]
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| ISBN: | 1559635223 (pbk.) 1559635215 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Barbara Rose Johnston and John M. Donahue
- Use and abuse of aquifers: can the Hopi Indians survive multinational mining? / Peter Whiteley and Vernon Masayesva
- Water rights in the Pacific Northwest / Tom Greaves
- "A River that Was Once so Strong and Deep": local reflections on the Eastmain Diversion, James Bay hydroelectric project / Kreg Ettenger
- Balancing the waters: development and hydropolitics in contemporary Zimbabwe / Bill Derman
- Water, rights, and the El Cajon Dam, Honduras / William M. Loker.
- Water resource development and its effects on the human community: the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Southeastern United States / Claudia M. Rogers
- Transacting a commons: the Lake Biwa Comprehensive Development Plan, Shiga Prefecture, Japan / James E. Nickum and Daniel Greenstadt
- Big Canal: the political ecololgy of the Central Arizona project / Thomas E. Sheridan
- Water wars in South Texas: managing the Edwards Aquifer / John M. Donahue
- Gender and society in Bangladesh's Flood Action Plan / Suzanne Hanchett, Jesmin Akhter, and Kazi Rozana Akhter.
- Reversal of tides: drinking water quality in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico / M. Brian Riley, Arthur D. Murphy, and Miguel Angel Mendez Rosado
- Water, power, and environmental health in tourism development: the Bay Islands, Honduras / Susan C. Stonich, Jerrel H. Sorensen, and Gus W. Salbador
- Culture, power, and the hydrological cycle: creating and responding to water scarcity on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands / Barbara Rose Johnston
- Water between Arabs and Israelis: researching twice promised resources / Rosina Hassoun.