Water Resource Management in a Vulnerable World: The Hydro-Hazardscapes of Climate Change
Autor Daanish Mustafaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781848855366
ISBN-10: 1848855362
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 28 integrated bw, 6 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1848855362
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 28 integrated bw, 6 tables
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Daanish Mustaffa is Reader in Human Geography at King's College, London. He was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at George Mason University and Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of South Florida, St Petersburg. He has worked in Pakistan for the non-profit sector on donor-funded social development and environmental preservation projects. His research interests include critical water resources geography, environmental management, and approaches to terrorism.
Cuprins
ContentsList of illustrationsIntroduction: hydro-hazardscapes of modernity2.Hydro-politics at the basin scale: the Indus3.Critical legal geographies in hydro-hazardscapes4.Local hydro-hazardscapes in the rural canal colonies of Pakistan5.Modernity and vulnerability in a Pakistani urban hazardscape6.Resilience versus growth as groundwater development objectives in the arid realm7.Globalization and water privatization in Belize8.Thou shall not optimize or share: a critical view of the prior appropriations doctrine in the American west9.Conclusion: mapping the contours of hydro-hazardscapes in a climate change futureNotesReferences Index