The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest

ISBN-13: 9781032082875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Brian O'Neill; Joan Cortinas Muñoz; Murielle Coeurdray

Opis

This book offers a new approach to environmental problems. Bringing the tools of Bourdieu’s field sociology to bear on a moment of environmental crisis with a study of the logics of water policy in the American Southwest, it reveals the contest over the management of scarce resources in a context of lasting drought.

Spis treści

Introduction – A Sociological Perspective on Water Policy  1. Engineering Arid Spaces: The Emergence of Western Hydrocracies  2. Supporting the Economic Order: Urban Sprawl and Coalitions for Growth  3. Reinventing Water Conservation: Institutions for Sustainability  4. Sharing Flows: New Professionals with Old Methods  5. Implementing Water Policy: Instruments and their Social Uses in the Colorado River Basin  Conclusion – Dealing with Scarcity  Annex #1 – Revisiting the Laws of the River  Annex #2 – Statistical Analysis

O autorze

　

Franck Poupeau is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and he has been the co-director of the joint international unit for Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies (UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona) from 2012 to 2017. He is the co-editor of several books on water policy: Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty (2016), Water Regimes: Beyond the Public and Private Sector Debate (2016), Water Conflicts and Hydrocracy in the Americas: Coalitions, Networks, Policies (2018).

Brian F. O’Neill is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA, CNRS/Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Joan Cortinas Muñoz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences Po Paris, France. Previously, he worked at the UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona.

Murielle Coeurdray is a postdoctoral researcher at the UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona.

Eliza Benites-Gambirazio is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA, and at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA, CNRS/Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle).