The water and power industries, including the most capital-intensive producers of goods and services in our economy, are exposed to financial risks of staggering proportions. With projects that are routinely large and require long-term planning, and with demand and supply often …
"Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations be…
"Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations be…
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction: Sub-National Hydropolitics -- Chapter 1. Deconstructing the State: Sub-National Conflict and Cooperation over Water -- Chapter 2. Constrained Collective Action: Decentralization, Autonomy, and Institutional…
" The prospect of international conflict over water has long been the subject of academic and popular concern, but sub-national political conflict is considerably more common, and almost certainly imposes greater economic and environmental costs. Indeed, sub-national hydropoliti…
Foreword. Reservoirs, Environmental Processes, Management and Policy. Environmental Indicators of Healthy Water Resources. Water Resources Development and Health: The Policy Perspective. Water Resources Development: Policy Perspectives of the Food and Agriculture Organization in…
"This impressive contribution to California and Civil War history interweaves in compelling prose the complex and conflicted story of the Golden State's emergence as a fully pledged loyal state in the midst of a terrible war. Matthews's insightful and colorful volume highlights …
"This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its …
