Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment)

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Synopsis
This book restores water, both fresh and salt, to its central position in human endeavour, ecology and environment. Water access and the environmental and social problems of development are major issues of concern in this century. Drawing on water's many formations in debating human relationship with a major source of life and a major factor in contemporary politics, this book covers oceans and rivers to lagoons, billabongs and estuaries in Asia, Oceania and the West Pacific. In an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary analysis of the water problem, the contributors address the physical descriptors of water and water flow, and they interrogate the politicised administrations of water in closely corresponding regions. Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania identifies new discursive possibilities for thinking about water in theory and in practice. It presents those discourses that seem most useful in addressing the multiple crises the region is facing and thus should be of interest to scholars of Asian Studies, Geography, Environmental and Cultural Studies.
Copyright:
2009

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
240 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781134074860
Related ISBNs:
9780203884676, 9780415437264, 9781138986978
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Reference, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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