Screen LibraryWater : abundance, scarcity, and security in the age of humanity /
Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produc...
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New York University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a coherent philosophy connecting people to the planet. Challenging this view, Jeremy Schmidt shows how water was made a "resource" that linked geology, politics, and culture to American institutions. Understanding the global spread and evolution of this philosophy is now key |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 308 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-293) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781479846429 1479846422 |
| Index Number: | TD215 |
| CLC: | TV213 |
| Call Number: | TV213/S352 |
| Contents: | Introduction : entering a new era of water management -- First water, then the world -- Laissez-faire metaphysics -- Managing water for "the people" -- America's post-colonial model of development -- The space of scarcity -- The globalization of normal water -- Securing the water-energy-food-climate nexus -- The anthropocene and the naturalization of process -- Thinking ecologically in an age of geology -- Conclusion : water in the anthropocene. |