Signs of water : : community perspectives on water, responsibility, and hope / / edited by Robert Boschman, Sonya L. Jakubec.
" A global exploration of water, bringing together academics and experts from five continents to illuminate the many issues facing the world's most important resource. Water is more important than ever before. It is increasingly controversial in direct proportion to its scarcity, demand, n...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Immersions : from water imaginaries to wild swimming. Water imagination in anthropology : on plant healing matters Aquatic insights from Roger Deakin's Waterlog II. Formations : water as lifeblood. Water formations, water neutrality, and water shutoffs : posthumanism in the wake of racial slavery When water isn't life : environmental justice denied Indigenous stories and the Fraser River : intercultural dialogue for public decision-making III. Histories : on four continents. Unexpected connections? Water security, law, social inequality, disrespect for cultural diversity, and environmental degradation in the Upper Xingu Basin Community-based natural resources management in sub-Sahara Africa : barriers to sustainable community water supply management in nothwest Cameroon Taming the Tambraparni River : reservoirs, hydro-electric power generation, and raising fish in south India A tale of two watersheds in the Mackenzie River Basin : linking land use planning to the hydroscape IV. Interventions : thinking and being with water. On not having invented the wheel : a meditation on invention, land, and water Instructions for being water : a performance score The red alert project V. Responses : two Canadian community models. Ghost story : a community organizing model of changemaking The new thunderbirds : the waters of Uranium City, Saskatchewan VI. Implementation : an engineering application for global climate change. Large-scale water harvesting : an application model in the time of accelerating global climate change.