Reflections on water : new approaches to transboundary conflicts and cooperation /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:English
Series:American and comparative environmental policy
American and comparative environmental policy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138382
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Other authors / contributors:Blatter, Joachim, 1966-
Ingram, Helen M., 1937-
ISBN:9780262268660
0262268663
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity.
Other form:Print version: Reflections on water. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001 026202487X 0262522845
Table of Contents:
  • Emerging approaches to comprehend changing global contexts / Joachim Blatter, Helen Ingram, and Pamela M. Doughman
  • Expanding perspectives on transboundary water / Joachim Blatter, Helen Ingram, and Suzanne Lorton Levesque
  • The confluence of water, patterns of settlement, and constructions of the border in the Imperial and the Mexicali valleys (1900-1999) / Mara̕ Rosa Garca̕-Acevedo
  • Lessons from Lake Constance: ideas, institutions, and advocacy coalitions / Joachim Blatter
  • The Yellowstone to Yukon conservation initiative: reconstructing boundaries, biodiversity, and beliefs / Suzanne Lorton Levesque
  • Discursive practices and competing discourses in the governance of wild North American Pacific salmon resources / Kathleen M. Sullivan
  • Discourses and water in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Pamela M. Doughman
  • A hydroelectric power complex on both sides of a war: potential weapon or peace incentive? / Paula Garb and John M. Whitely
  • Black Sea environmental management: prospects for new paradigms in transitional contexts / Joseph F. DiMento
  • Water as a boundary: national parks, rivers, and the politics of demarcation in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe / David McDermott Hughes
  • Perspectives from the districts of water and power: a report on flows / Richard Perry
  • Lessons from the spaces of unbound water for research and governance in a glocalized world / Richard Perry, Joachim Blatter, and Helen Ingram.