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"Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmentalist and campaigner, examines the ""water-war"" of the 21st century: the progressive privatization by the multinationals of communal water rights. While drought and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the 21st century may match - or even surpass - the oil wars of the 20th. This title sheds light on the activists who are fighting corporate manoeuvres to convert this life-sustaining resource into more gold for the elites. Shiva draws on her knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights. Using the international water trade and industrial activities such as damming, mining and aquafarming as her lens, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they are stripped of rights to a precious common good. She calls for a movement to preserve water access for all, and offers a blueprint for global resistance based on examples of successful campaigns."

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Author:   Vandana Shiva
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9780745318370

ISBN 10:   0745318371
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   20 March 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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The world's most prominent radical scientist. The Guardian

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

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Vandana Shiva, formerly one of India's leading physicists, is now a leading environmental campaigner, the winner of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize and the author of several books, including Stolen Harvest (Zed Books, 2001), Biopiracy (Green Books, 1998), and Biopolitics (Zed Books, 1995).

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