Right to water : politics, governance and social struggles /

Right to water : politics, governance and social struggles / edited by Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus. - 1st ed. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2012. - xvii, 262 pages : maps - Earthscan water text series . - Earthscan water text series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / The right to water: possibilities and prospects / Commons versus commodities: debating the human right to water / The human right to what?: water, rights, humans, and the relation of things / A right to water?: geographico-legal perspectives / The political economy of the right to water: reinvigorating the question of property / Scarce or insecure?: the right to water and the ethics of global water governance / The right to water as the right to identity: legal struggles of indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand / Legal protection of the right to water in the European Union / Rights, citizenship and territory: water politics in the West Bank / Water rights and wrongs : illegality and informal use in Mexico and the U.S. / The centrality of community participation to the realization of the right to water: the illustrative case of South Africa / The right to the city and the eco-social commoning of water: discursive and political lessons from South Africa / Anti-privatization struggles and the right to water in India: engendering cultures of opposition / Seeing through the concept of water as a human right in Bolivia / From Cochabamba to Colombia: travelling repertoires in Latin American water struggles / Maude Barlow -- Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus -- Karen Bakker -- Jamie Linton -- Chad Staddon, Thomas Appleby and Evadne Grant -- Kyle R. Mitchell -- Jeremy J. Schmidt -- Jacinta Ruru -- Marleen van Rijswick and Andrea Keessen -- Ilaria Giglioli -- Katharine Meehan -- Cristy Clark -- Patrick Bond -- Krista Bywater -- Rocio Bustamante, Carlos Crespo and Anna Maria Walnycki -- Ver�onica Perera. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.



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Right to water.
Water--Law and legislation.
Droit à l'eau.
Law--Real Estate.
Right to water
Water--Law and legislation

K3260 / .R54 2012

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