Addresses impacts of commodification, urbanisation and technology on availability and quality of water supplies Demonstrates ways in which water influences all domains of social life Addresses issue of water as a human right from indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives Outlines principles and processes needed to inform equitable and sustainable approaches to water governance
Addresses impacts of commodification, urbanisation and technology on availability and quality of water supplies Demonstrates ways in which water influences all domains of social life Addresses issue of water as a human right from indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives Outlines principles and processes needed to inform equitable and sustainable approaches to water governance
John R. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He conducts research in Canada, the United States and Papua New Guinea and has published several journal articles on water governance in the Okanagan Valley. In 2007 he was lead guest editor of Customs, Commons, Property and Ecology, a special edition of Human Organization devoted to an analysis of Pacific Island customary property rights systems. Recent publications include "Water and the Commons Imaginary" in the Public Anthropology Forum of Current Anthropology (2012).
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List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction John Richard Wagner Part I: Commodification Chapter 1. Contesting Equivalences: Controversies over Water and Mining in Chile and Peru Fabiana Li Chapter 2. Dam Nation: Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling Veronica Strang Chapter 3. Water and Ill-being: Displaced People and Dam-based Development in India Lyla Mehta Part II: Water and Technology Chapter 4. Aesthetics of a Relationship: Women and Water Nefissa Naguib Chapter 5. La Pila de San Juan: Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador Hugo De Burgos Chapter 6. Not so Boring. Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab Rita Brara Chapter 7. Kenyan Landscape, Identity and Access Swathi Veeravali Part III: Urbanization Chapter 8. Health Challenges of Urban Poverty and Water Supply in Northern Ghana Issaka Kanton Osumanu Chapter 9. The Risk of Water: Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia Sarah C. Smith Chapter 10. The Water Crisis in Ireland: The Socio-Political Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society Liam Leonard Part IV: Governance Chapter 11. Fairness and the Human Right to Water: A Preliminary Cross-cultural Theory Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Sveinn Sigurdsson, Rhian Stotts, and Abigail York Chapter 12. Indigenous Water Governance and Resistance: A Syilx Perspective Marlowe Sam and Jeannette Armstrong Chapter 13. Bureaucratic Bricolage and Adaptive Co-management in Indonesian Irrigation Bryan Bruns Chapter 14. Anthropological Insights into Stakeholder Participation in Water Management of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas John M. Donahue Index
List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction John Richard Wagner Part I: Commodification Chapter 1. Contesting Equivalences: Controversies over Water and Mining in Chile and Peru Fabiana Li Chapter 2. Dam Nation: Cubbie Station and the Waters of the Darling Veronica Strang Chapter 3. Water and Ill-being: Displaced People and Dam-based Development in India Lyla Mehta Part II: Water and Technology Chapter 4. Aesthetics of a Relationship: Women and Water Nefissa Naguib Chapter 5. La Pila de San Juan: Historic Transformations of Water as a Public Symbol in Suchitoto, El Salvador Hugo De Burgos Chapter 6. Not so Boring. Assembling and Reassembling Groundwater Tales and Technologies from Malerkotla, Punjab Rita Brara Chapter 7. Kenyan Landscape, Identity and Access Swathi Veeravali Part III: Urbanization Chapter 8. Health Challenges of Urban Poverty and Water Supply in Northern Ghana Issaka Kanton Osumanu Chapter 9. The Risk of Water: Dengue Prevention and Control in Urban Cambodia Sarah C. Smith Chapter 10. The Water Crisis in Ireland: The Socio-Political Contexts of Risk in Contemporary Society Liam Leonard Part IV: Governance Chapter 11. Fairness and the Human Right to Water: A Preliminary Cross-cultural Theory Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, Sveinn Sigurdsson, Rhian Stotts, and Abigail York Chapter 12. Indigenous Water Governance and Resistance: A Syilx Perspective Marlowe Sam and Jeannette Armstrong Chapter 13. Bureaucratic Bricolage and Adaptive Co-management in Indonesian Irrigation Bryan Bruns Chapter 14. Anthropological Insights into Stakeholder Participation in Water Management of the Edwards Aquifer in Texas John M. Donahue Index
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