Water : : Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity / / Jeremy J. Schmidt.
An intellectual history of America's water management philosophyHumans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. F...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Entering a new era of water management
- Part I. Abundance
- 1. First water, then the world
- 2. Laissez- faire metaphysics
- 3. Managing water for “the people”
- Part II. Scarcity
- 4. America’s post- colonial model of development
- 5. The space of scarcity
- Part III. Security
- 6. The globalization of normal water
- 7. Securing the water- energy- food- climate nexus
- Part IV. Rethinking the anthropocene
- 8. The anthropocene and the naturalization of process
- 9. Thinking ecologically in an age of geology
- Conclusion. Water in the anthropocene
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author