According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems provide water for some at the cost of others, and result in short-term gains that wreak long-term ecological havoc. Water scarcity can also be a product of the social systems in which we live.
Water, Culture, and Power presents a series of case studies from around the world that examine the complex culture and power dimensions of water resources and water resource management. Chapters describe highly contested and contentious cases that span the continuum of water management concerns from dam construction and hydroelectric power generation to water quality and potable water systems. Sections examine:
Tensions between culture and power as they structure perceptions and experiences of water scarcity, transforming water from natural resource to social constructio.
Case studies include Lummi nation challenges to water rights in the Northwest United States; drinking water quality issues in Oaxaca de Juarez, Mexico; the effects of tourism development in the Bay Islands, Honduras; water scarcity on St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands; the role of water in the Arab-Israeli conflict; and other national and regional situations including those from Zimbabwe, Japan, and Bangladesh.
While places and cases vary, all chapters address the values and meanings associated with water and how changes in power result in changes in both meaning and in patterns of use, access, and control. Water, Culture, and Power provides an important look at water conflicts and crises and is essential reading for students, researchers, and anyone interested in the role of cultural factors as they affect the political economy of natural resource use and control.
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Environmental Movements: Local, National and Global (Environmental Politics (Frank Cass Paperback))
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Environmental movements are at a crossroads. Increasingly institutionalized almost everywhere in the industrially developed societies, established environmental organizations are confronted by new radical groups and uninstitutionalized local protesters. Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.
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Feminist Political Ecology explores the gendered relations of ecologies, economies and politics in communities as diverse as the rubbertappers in the rainforests of Brazil to activist groups fighting racism in New York City. Women are often at the center of these struggles, which concern local knowledge, everyday practice, rights to resources, sustainable development, environmental quality and social justice. This book bridges the gap between the academic and rural orientation of political ecology and the largely activist and urban focus of environmental justice movements.
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Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis of remotely sensed images of land cover over time with ethnographies of situated negotiations between human actors. Her book will be particularly valuable to researchers and students in anthropology, geography, sociology, and environmental studies, and those involved in conservation and resource management.
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People and Forest-Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan (INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES)
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This book is a compilation of the results of strategic policy research carried out by the Forest Conservation Project of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), between 1998 and 2002. The project's main purpose is to shed light on measures to conserve biodiversity and use forests sustainably, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. Project work was conducted by academics, non-governmental organizations, and governmental officials in selected countries in the region and covered everything from the local reality at the village level, to forest policy at the national and global levels. Based on a structural analysis of issues concerning forest loss and degradation, the project focused on the participation of local people in sustainable forest management.
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Audience: The book offers a helpful framework for forest conservation, as well as key concepts and measures that will be useful for policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and academics alike.
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Political Ecology: Global and Local (Innis Centenary Series)
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This collection is drawn from a recent Global Political conference held to mark the centenary of the birth of Harold Innis, Canada's most important political economist. Throughout his life, Innis was concerned with topics which remain central to political ecology today, such as the link between culture and nature, the impact of humanity on the environment and the role of technology and communications. In this volume, the contributors address environmental issues which Innes was concerened with, from a contemporary, political economy perspective. They explore a wide range of themes and issues including: sustainability; risk and regulation; population growth; and planetary management. Case studies provide further insight into issues such as industrial racism, women and development and collective action.
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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 13450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: KEY WORDS: West Africa, Mali, cotton, political ecology, poverty, soil degradation
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Title: On environment, Washington hardliners control the landscape: stymied by Bush agenda, environmentalists focus action at local level.(ECOLOGY)
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Learn how to get the absolute most out the people you lead using the success secrets of many of sport's most successful and respected coaches including Mike Krzyzewski (Duke Men's Basketball), Pat Summitt (Tennessee Women's Basketball), Mike Candrea (Arizona Softball), Marty Schottenheimer (San Diego Chargers), Mary Wise (Florida Volleyball) Jerry Yeagley (Indiana Soccer), Mike Gillespie (USC Baseball), Leroy Walker (USA Track and Field), and numerous others.
The book shows coaches and leaders of all kinds (managers, teachers) how to unlock and unleash your team's full potential. Learn how to build confidence and commitment, motivate and inspire your team, handle difficult discipline issues, earn your team's respect, and leave a lasting legacy as a leader. This practical, information-packed book will help you create a confident, committed, and coachable team.
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Bible for any leader.......2006-05-22
This book, as well as all books by this author, are excellent. They are obviously an good resource for its intended audience of coaches, but it is also useful for any leader. I consider, and recommend this book to others, as my bible for leadership. It is easy to read and understand. The concepts build logically and interact well with each other.
A Great Tool.......2004-05-20
This is very good. Well written, easy to follow, and very practical applications for yourself and your team. Most of this stuff I am going to implement or had already implemented.
For any beginning coach, or coach that is struggling with reaching your players, you must have this book. If your team is underachieving, this book will help. The references to successful coaches and their experiences is really a positive.
The one funny about this book, is how much it refers to Gary Barnett in a positive light. This is kind of ironic based on what is happening to him right now...
Coaches should buy this book...
Winning is not the only thing.......2002-01-03
An excellent resource not only for coaches and those involved in sport activities but also for parents and educators. Janssen and Dale talk about the importance of team building and the real reasons most kids get involved in sports: to have fun and to have social opportunities, among many others. That is not to say that winning is unimportant but rather that it is only one aspect of involvement with sports. A must read for parents and educators who believe winning is the ONLY thing.
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Bring in the big bucks.
From choosing a property and the right tenant to financing, maintenance, and how to get the greatest return on a rental investment, this guide is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book for anyone looking to profit from both residential and commercial rental properties. Readers will find all-new sample documents for every stage of the rental process, all-new sections on rental regulations and resources, organized by state, and a new introduction by Jeffrey Taylor, a national expert on rental property and the founder and proprietor of the most popular landlord website in America, mrlandlord.com.
• Lots of new content and a new introduction
• Expert authors who own and operate their own real estate company
• Because of record-low interest rates, rates of property ownership for rental use are high
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An absolute must-read & must-have for any would-be landlord.......2004-12-12
Now in an updated and expanded second edition, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Making Money With Rental Properties by the collaborative team of Brian F. Edwards, Casey Edwards, and Susannah Craig-Edwards is a no-nonsense guidebook to all aspects of the business of renting property. Including easy-to-follow advice on basic landlord-tenant rights and responsibilities, how to handle routine maintenance and emergency repairs, completing credit and reference checks on potential tenants, how to deal with difficult tenants and evictions, basic accounting principles, and much more, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Making Money With Rental Properties distinguishes itself with the accessibility of its advice - presenting must-know informations in terms the lay reader can readily grasp. An absolute must-read and must-have for any would-be landlord, and packed cover to cover with useful information even for those with years of experience renting out properties.
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An avid antique collector, Jane Wheel owns a lot of stuff. In fact, she owns too much stuff, which often gets her into trouble. So finally she agrees to do the unthinkable: she holds her very first garage sale. Thankfully the sale ends almost before it begins, interrupted by a hysterical phone call from Jane's mother, Nellie. But Jane's relief doesn't last long. Nellie is calling to tell Jane about a mysterious discovery on a neighbor's property: bone fragments, buried in his backyard. Since Jane's husband, Charlie, is a geologist, Jane volunteers to make the trip to her hometown, Kankakee, Illinois, to see if they can help her parents' neighbor, Fuzzy Neilson, sort things out.When they arrive, Jane and Charlie are surprised to find quite a controversy brewing in town, and not just over the mysterious discovery of the bones. In addition to Fuzzy's buried treasure, people are trying to reinvent this sleepy midwestern town. There are a couple of slick real estate developers going around town talking a big game about making Kankakee into Hometown, U.S.A. Then Jane's best friend, Tim, gets in on the act, proposing that Kankakee host the World's Largest Garage Sale. But when a man turns up murdered on Fuzzy's field, the spotlight turns back to the mysterious doings on the Neilson farm.While Charlie uncovers what may or may not be an archaelogically significant site, Jane manages to uncover the town's buried secrets. With the help of her family, Tim, and sometime partner P.I. Bruce Oh, Jane must sort rumor and gossip from the true crimes before it's too late.With Buried Stuff, Sharon Fiffer continues to chronicle the events in the life of her charming, human, slightly obsessive main character, Jane Wheel; intriguing, suspenseful and lively, like the best of mystery writing today, reading Fiffer's latest novel is like coming across one of Jane's estate sale discoveries and finding it full of delights and surprises.
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All about the stuff we bury.......2006-08-24
Sharon Fiffer's Stuff series does indeed keep getting better. Heroine Jane Wheel doesn't think there's a lot to her, but we're all the product of our "stuff"--our parents, our histories, our artifacts--and Jane finds out a little bit more about how her stuff is arranged in this mystery that takes her back to her hometown of Kankakee and her friend Tim's all-city garage sale.
Fiffer's got some important things to say about popular culture and personal needs, and she makes it a fun, yet thoughtful, read.
Another Great Mystery!.......2004-12-04
Sharon Fiffer has created a terrific mystery. I've read each of the Jane Wheel books - this is the best yet. Absorbing plot. Excellent use of language and description. Artfully developed characters - they're all quite believable, yet each is quirky in some entertaining way. We've all known a "Nellie" - someone we're in love with one moment and would like to strangle the next. Then there is the unflappable Detective Oh, and his elegant wife, Claire. And Jane's family relationships (with husband Charley, and son Nick) are portrayed in considerable depth and with just the right amount of humor. The story moves quickly along, and the mystery keeps the reader guessing until the end. Mystery lovers should not miss this book. I believe there will be more Jane Wheel editions in our future - and I am thankful for that!
Subterranean Homesick Stuff.......2004-11-16
o/~ Bakelite
and Jadite and
old table linens o/~
These are a few of Jane Wheel, saloon keepers' daughter, former ad exec, "digger" Charley's re-united wife and Nick's momma, now antique "picker," sentimental "junquer," self-described "curator of the unwanted," and ameuteur sleuth's Favorite Things.
Like Jane's treasured "stuff," Sharon Fiffer's "Stuff" series just keeps getting better. The 4th find in this collectible series starts with an apoplectic Jane at a Garage Sale. They're selling HER Stuff! The Horror! The Horror! But she is saved by an unearthed dead body in a Kankakee cornfield. Cancel the sale! She and crew are off to solve another case. If you can relate to "some stray bit of flotsam from that tidepool of popular culture that passed for her mind," this Stuff's for you! /TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
terrific cozy.......2004-10-27
One person's garbage is another person's treasure. Just ask Jane Wheel, a picker who goes to real estate sales to buy objects which she expects a demand to resell. She is also a private detective who seems to attract dead bodies like a magnet and finds out who killed them. Both professions provide Jane with the same powerful adrenalin rush although one seems a bit more sedate than the other.
Her friends persuade Jane to host a garage sale to rid her of the overflow and make room for new purchases. Shortly after the opening, Jane receives a phone call from her mother in Kankakea, Illinois asking for her and her geologist husband Charley to visit in order to examine some remains her neighbor Fuzzy found buried on her property.
Jane, Charley and their son Mick camp on Fuzzy's land. A noise awakens Jane who sees a man fall to the ground. She realizes that he is Fuzzy's neighbor Johnny Sullivan, a now dead reporter; she also sees Fuzzy walking back to her home. Once again Picker ad Private Investigator Jane is on the case of a homicide.
BURIED STUFF is a terrific cozy due to the strong support cast and obviously the center of the novel Jane, who does not know the meaning of the word quit. Readers get a look at a Midwestern small town in which most of the natives pull together to improve life for everyone. Sharon Fiffer provides an interesting story that grips fans without resorting to violence as Jane struts her stuff trying to solve this fascinating mystery.
Harriet Klausner
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THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARAGE SALE....MURDER INCLUDEDAntiques picker Jane Wheel is going home, back to Kankakee, Illinois. In this little town that time forgot, a farmer friend of Jane's parents has dug up some mysterious old bones and relics. Jane just has to take a look, and she's bringing her husband and son along. The whole family plans to camp out in a cornfield and have a rip-roaring good time. And the added bonus? Kankakee is about to host the biggest town garage sale, ever. Every block will be filled with the great stuff that is one man's junk, but another man's treasure-McCoy, Bakelite, vintage clothes, Depression glass, Griswold frying pans. What could possibly go wrong? A murder on the old man's farm, just for starters....and development plans for Kankakee that spell trouble. That's Trouble, with a capital T.
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Can't Wait.......2006-04-06
I love all of the "Jane Wheel" mysteries, particularly "Buried Stuff." Being a picker myself, I have enjoyed the series greatly. They are funny, engaging and witty. I can't wait to read her next book.
So NOT in keeping with the first books in the series.......2006-04-04
The first several books in this series were amazing, wonderful, really creative. This one lagged in a lot of places, was confusing in some and just plain NOT a very good read. I bought it with high hopes, and got rid of it immediately afterwards, definitely NOT worth rereading. I sure hope the new one is back to her old style!
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