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Water, Place, and Equity.
Title:
Water, Place, and Equity.
Author:
Whiteley, John M.
ISBN:
9780262286107
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (331 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Importance of Equity and the Limits of Efficiency in Water Resources -- I Water, Place, and Equity -- 2 The San Luis Valley and the Moral Economy of Water -- 3 Ethical Issues in Storm Water Policy Implementation: Disparities in Financial Burdens and Overall Benefits -- 4 Equity and Water in Mexico's Changing Institutional Landscape -- 5 From Equitable Utilization to Sustainable Development: Advancing Equity in U.S.-Mexico Border Water Management -- 6 Developing a Plentiful Resource: Transboundary Rivers in the Pacific Northwest -- II Civic Engagement and Governance -- 7 The Global Water Crisis, Privatization, and the Bolivian Water War -- 8 Modernizing Mountain Water: State, Industry, and Territory -- 9 Whose Water Is It Anyway? Water Management, Knowledge, and Equity in Northeast Brazil -- 10 Water and Equity in a Changing Climate -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
An agument for the importance of equity as a criterion in evaluating water policy, with examples in wide-ranging case studies from North and South America and Europe.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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