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A world-renowned environmentalist , Shiva examines the ‘water wars’ of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatisation by the multinationals of communal water rights.

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'The world's most prominent radical scientist' -- Guardian

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of the Global Water Crisis
1. Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community
2. Water Cycles vs. Markets Cycles: When Ecology Clashes with Commerce
3. The World on the Edge
Part II: Privatization: The Culture of Scarcity and Water Conflicts
4. Intensive Irrigation, Large Dams and Water Conflicts
5. Mining and Water Conflicts
6. Aquaculture and Water Shortage
Part III: Sustainable Use
7. Converting Scarcity into Abundance
8. Culture and the Value of Nature: The Sea as Paradigm
Part IV: Resistance
9. Our Vanishing Waters

Water Wars Pollution Profits and Privatization

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/20/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780745318370, 978-0745318370
      ISBN10: 0745318371

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A world-renowned environmentalist , Shiva examines the ‘water wars’ of the twenty-first century: the aggressive privatisation by the multinationals of communal water rights.

      Trade Review
      'The world's most prominent radical scientist' -- Guardian

      Table of Contents
      Introduction
      Part 1: Theoretical Underpinnings of the Global Water Crisis
      1. Water Rights: The State, the Market, the Community
      2. Water Cycles vs. Markets Cycles: When Ecology Clashes with Commerce
      3. The World on the Edge
      Part II: Privatization: The Culture of Scarcity and Water Conflicts
      4. Intensive Irrigation, Large Dams and Water Conflicts
      5. Mining and Water Conflicts
      6. Aquaculture and Water Shortage
      Part III: Sustainable Use
      7. Converting Scarcity into Abundance
      8. Culture and the Value of Nature: The Sea as Paradigm
      Part IV: Resistance
      9. Our Vanishing Waters

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