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What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction
ISBN: 9780774817011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the specter of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H2O - this concept has given modern society license to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the... We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the specter of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fun... |
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What Is Water?: The History of a Modern Abstraction
ISBN: 9780774817028 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the specter of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction - to mere H2O - this concept has given modern society license to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the... We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the specter of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fun... |
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146,88 |
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Water as a Social Opportunity
ISBN: 9781553394358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen s University with the idea that it is more illuminating and constructive to think about water as an opportunity. Water as a Social Opportunity conveys the idea that the ways in which society responds to water-related challenges has the potential to yield a variety of positive outcomes not just for water, or the economy, but for society more broadly. Contributors consider water issues across Canada from this original perspective, and suggest this...
Often when water is thought about, the focus is on problems, challenges, and crises. In November 2012, a group of researchers came together at Queen s...
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