Water: A Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781119315216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str.

UK) Akhter Majed (Kings College London

Spis treści

List of Figures viiList of Tables ixList of Boxes xAcknowledgments xiPart 1 Foundations 11 The Hydrosocial Cycle 32 Water and Empire 273 Legal Waters 484 The Business of Water 74Part 2 Big Waters 955 Eating Water 976 Dam Fever 1227 Shared Waters 147Part 3 Water is Life 1698 Intimate Waters 1719 The Right to Water 19610 Future Waters 217Bibliography 237Index 279

O autorze

Katie Meehan is Reader in Environment and Society at King's College London, where she is Co-Director of King's Water Centre. She is an Editor (Nature and Society) of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and has authored over three dozen publications on the politics of water infrastructure, development, and household water insecurity.Naho Mirumachi is Professor of Environmental Politics at the Department of Geography at King's College London and Co-Director of King's Water Centre. Her research focuses on the governance of water resources and climate security, including water diplomacy, water-climate security, water resilience and socio-political barriers to water sustainability. She has written reports for UN Environment, European Parliament and contributed to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.Alex Loftus is Professor of Political Ecology at King's College London. His research is focused on the political ecology of water and the environment, with a particular interest in the right to water and emerging processes of financialization. He co-edited Water Politics: Governance, Justice, and the Right to Water (2020, with F. Sultana) and is author of Everyday Environmentalism (2012).Majed Akhter is Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society at King's College London. His research interests sit at the intersection of geopolitics, environment, and natural resources, with a focus on decolonization in South and Southeast Asia. He was named a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2019.