ISBN:
1-930618-58-1
,
978-1-930618-58-9
,
1-930618-57-3 /Hb.
,
978-1-930618-57-2 /Hb.
,
0-85255-974-7
,
978-0-85255-974-1
,
0-85255-979-8 /Hb.
,
978-0-85255-979-6 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 322 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karte
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [46]
Keywords:
Wasser Wasserversorgung
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Ressource
;
Gesundheit
;
Globalisierung
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Malawi
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China
;
Peru
;
Texas
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Indianer, Nordamerika
;
Spanien
;
Südliches Afrika
Abstract:
This book is about crime and passion, life and death, lofty goals and squalid realities. It is a book about water. Global disparities in health and access to water are two major threats to world stability. As international contracts and corporate agreements divert water from small communities to provide for larger cities, from households to supply agribusiness, conflicts sharpen among local communities, national governments, and international agencies such as the World Bank and the International Development Bank over the basic resources to support human life. In this book, leading anthropologists illuminate the global political inequities and resource management techniques that cause children to die and adults to sicken. Drawing on expertise in medical and ecological anthropology, the contributors challenge and deepen our understanding of the management, sale, and conceptualization of water as it affects human health. Designed for use by policymakers as well as researchers and students, the essays present complex realities in clear, accessible terms. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables -- 1. Paradigm Change, Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford -- Section I. Water-linked health issues -- 2.Casualties in the Globalization of Water: A Moral Economy of Health Perspective, Linda Whiteford -- 3. Water Reform, Gender, and HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from Malawi, Anne Ferguson -- 4. Water, Vectorborne Disease, and Gender: Schistosomiasis in Rural China, Lenore Manderson and Yixin Huang -- 5. Waste Not, Want Not: Grounded Globalization and Global Lessons for Water Use from Lima, Peru, Carl Kendall -- 6. Whose Water Is It Anyway? Boundary Negotiations on the Edwards Aquifer in Texas, Irene Klaver and John Donahue -- Section II. Water management and health -- 7. The Commodification of Water and the Human Dimensions of Manufactured Scarcity, Barbara Rose Johnston -- 8. Water Struggles of Indigenous North America, Tom Greaves -- 9. Water Management Reforms, Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems, and Food Security: The Spanish Experience, David Guillet -- 10. The Incredible Heaviness of Water: Water Policy and Reform in the New Millennium in Southern Africa, William Derman -- 11. Good to the Last Drop: The Political Ecology of Water and Health on the Border, Scott Whiteford and Alfonso Cortez-Lara -- 12. Concluding Comments: Future Challenges, Scott Whiteford and Linda Whiteford -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 267-301"School of American Research contemporary issues seminar Globalization, Water, and Health: Resource Management in Times of Scarcity, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 8-9, 2002" (letzte Seite)Enthält 12 Beiträge
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