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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"water politics"”.
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Political culture and water politics in Nevada: Las Vegas attempts to quench its thirsts
Today it is clear that the issue of water and its unavoidable scarcity in many areas has secured a permanent place on the public policy agenda. Certainly in Las Vegas, Nevada the rapid population growth, great economic development and extreme arid climate make the region vulnerable to the dangers …
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Toward a philosophy of water: Politics of the pollution and damming along the Ganges River.
… out to develop a beginning of a philosophy of water by considering philosophical implications of ecological crises currently happening along the waters of the Ganges River. In my first chapter, I give a historical account of a philosophy of water. In my second chapter, I describe various …
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Las Vegas in an Era of Limits: Urban Water Politics in the Colorado River Basin
… metropolis, the Las Vegas metropolitan area's water supply is limited by law and not by local environmental conditions. The federal government allocates 300,000 acre-feet of water per year to the metro-area. During the 1980s the Las Vegas metro-area grew from 400,000 people to 750,000, …
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An Enhanced notion of power for inter-state and transnational hydropolitics: An Analysis of Turkish- Syrian Water Relations and the Ilısu Dam Conflict between the Opponents and Proponents of the Dam
… states and non-state actors on transboundary water issues by examining hydropolitics at the inter-state and transnational layers from 1923 to 2011. The cases investigated are Turkish – Syrian relations primarily over the Euphrates and Tigris basin, and relations between opponents and …
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Fluid dynamics : politics and social struggle in São Paulo's water crisis (2014-2015)
… and main economic center, and precipitated a water supply crisis. As water availability became increasingly strained during 2014, myriad collective action efforts by civil society actors sprung up in the city. My thesis explores this social mobilization around Sao Paulo's supply crisis as a …
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WATER SCARCITY, CONFLICT AND NEGOTIATION: FOUR ESSAYS
… over shared rivers, the overall impact of water scarcity on conflict remained inconsistent. Divergent findings often resulted from variations in data, methodologies, and analytical approaches, leaving the relationship between water scarcity and conflict unresolved. Climate change further …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
… and social landscapes, especially concerning water development. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built most of the West's major dams and water projects, traces its origins back to the 1902 Reclamation Act and since then has seen its share of political upheavals and colorful personalities. But …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
… and social landscapes, especially concerning water development. The Bureau of Reclamation, which built most of the West's major dams and water projects, traces its origins back to the 1902 Reclamation Act and since then has seen its share of political upheavals and colorful personalities. But …
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A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa’s water policy (1998 – 2001)
… question: Is the incorporation of the integrated water resource management (IWRM) approach in South Africa’s water policy, from a political point of view, appropriate? The IWRM approach, as applied to developing countries, originated in developed countries with predominantly homogeneous societies …