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Americans see water as abundant and cheap: they turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. They use more water than any other culture in the world. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and prod…
Discusses concerns over fresh- and groundwater supplies in the early twenty-first century, examines the efforts of individuals, businesses, and governments to reduce water use, and describes technologies that improve the amount of water used for agricultural irrigation, the amou…
Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what's now our largest crop'the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer tha…
"The world's growing global water crisis has ignited efforts to reconnect policy to human values. According to Water Ethics, all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve moral judgments and cultural assumptions." "Each of the book's six sec…
"The world's growing global water crisis has ignited efforts to reconnect policy to human values. According to Water Ethics, all approaches to managing water, no matter how grounded in empirical data, involve moral judgments and cultural assumptions." "Each of the book's six sec…
Introduction : global water ethics : towards a water ethics charter / Rafael Ziegler and David Groenfeldt -- A brief history of efforts to articulate global water ethics / Susan Lea Smith -- What is water ethics and to what end do we study it? : lessons for the water ethics char…
Introduction : global water ethics : towards a water ethics charter / Rafael Ziegler and David Groenfeldt -- A brief history of efforts to articulate global water ethics / Susan Lea Smith -- What is water ethics and to what end do we study it? : lessons for the water ethics char…
"Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources. Water ethics can provide both conceptual perspectives and practical methodologies for identifying outcomes which are e…
« Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human pe…
"Facing droughts, floods, and water security challenges, society is increasingly forced to develop new policies and practices to cope with the impacts of climate change. From taken-for-granted values and perceptions to embodied, existential modes of engaging our world, human per…