Water, Place, and Equity

Book Overview

An agument for the importance of equity as a criterion in evaluating water policy, with examples in wide-ranging case studies from North and South America and Europe.

Many predict that by the end of this century water will dominate world natural resources politics as oil does today. Access to water is widely regarded as a basic human right, and was declared so by the United Nations in 1992. And yet the water crisis grows: although...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262731916
• ISBN13: 9780262731911
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher