Where rivers meet the sea : the political ecology of water /

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Author / Creator:Kane, Stephanie C., author.
Imprint:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2012]
©2012
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13452578
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ISBN:9781439909324
1439909326
9781439909300
143990930X
9781439909317
1439909318
1299834361
9781299834361
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 17, 2013).
Summary:Where fresh water appears to be abundant and generally accessible, chronic pollution may be relatively ignored as a public issue. Yet there are those whose lives, livelihoods, and traditions are touched directly by the destructive albeit essential relationship between humans and water. In her passionate and persuasively argued Where Rivers Meet the Sea, Stephanie Kane compares two cities and nations-Salvador, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina-as she tells the stories of those who organize in the streets, petition the courts, and challenge their governments to implement and enforce existing la.
Other form:Print version: Kane, Stephanie C. Where rivers meet the sea. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012 9781439909300

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