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Author:   Jamie Linton
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780774817011

ISBN 10:   0774817011
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   15 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Making Waves / Graeme Wynn Preface Part 1: Introduction 1 Fixing the Flow: The Things We Make of Water 2 Relational Dialectics: Putting Things in Fluid Terms Part 2: The History of Modern Water 3 Intimations of Modern Water 4 From Premodern Waters to Modern Water 5 The Hydrologic Cycle(s): Scientific and Sacred 6 The Hortonian Hydrologic Cycle 7 Reading the Resource: Modern Water, the Hydrologic Cycle, and the Stat 8 Culmination: Global Water Part 3: The Constitutional Crisis of Modern Water 9 The Constitution of Modern Water 10 Modern Water in Crisis 11 Sustaining Modern Water: The New “Global Water Regime” Part 4: Conclusion: What Becomes of Water 12 Hydrolectics Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

The book demonstrates, in a clear and concise fashion, the ways in which contemporary social relationships with water have constituted a crisis... The subject is of fundamental importance and the author's emphasis on the need to posit environmental concerns within a socio-natural understanding is vital. - Alex Loftus, Department of Geography, University of London

Linton's message needs to be taken seriously by anyone for whom water is something more than so many molecules of H2O ... it is a message that should be incorporated into both introductory and advanced courses in a number of disciplines dealing not only with water but with all natural resources. -- David B. Brooks, Fresh Water, Friends of the Earth, Canada Critical Policy Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 Linton presents the issues in impressive breadth and depth, and tells a compelling story. Recommended. -- Choice I.D. Sasowsky, University of Akron Jamie Linton's excellent analysis fills a gap in the understanding of our conceptions of water. His critiques of the water crisis and the new paradigm of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) are simply brilliant and long overdue. The book is easy to read for an audience new to the literature on water from a social science perspective. -- Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg Social & Cultural Geography The publication of Jamie Linton's superb monograph, What is Water?, provides an opportunity to consider the development of relational and dialectical thought within geography and especially how this has developed around the subject of water. -- Alex Loftus, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London The Geographical Journal

Linton presents the issues in impressive breadth and depth, and tells a compelling story. Recommended. -- Choice I.D. Sasowsky, University of Akron Linton's message needs to be taken seriously by anyone for whom water is something more than so many molecules of H2O ... it is a message that should be incorporated into both introductory and advanced courses in a number of disciplines dealing not only with water but with all natural resources. -- David B. Brooks, Fresh Water, Friends of the Earth, Canada Critical Policy Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 The publication of Jamie Linton's superb monograph, What is Water?, provides an opportunity to consider the development of relational and dialectical thought within geography and especially how this has developed around the subject of water. -- Alex Loftus, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London The Geographical Journal Jamie Linton's excellent analysis fills a gap in the understanding of our conceptions of water. His critiques of the water crisis and the new paradigm of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) are simply brilliant and long overdue. The book is easy to read for an audience new to the literature on water from a social science perspective. -- Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg Social & Cultural Geography

Jamie Linton's excellent analysis fills a gap in the understanding of our conceptions of water. His critiques of the water crisis and the new paradigm of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) are simply brilliant and long overdue. The book is easy to read for an audience new to the literature on water from a social science perspective. -- Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg * Social & Cultural Geography * Linton's message needs to be taken seriously by anyone for whom water is something more than so many molecules of H2O ... it is a message that should be incorporated into both introductory and advanced courses in a number of disciplines dealing not only with water but with all natural resources. -- David B. Brooks, Fresh Water, Friends of the Earth, Canada * Critical Policy Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 * Linton presents the issues in impressive breadth and depth, and tells a compelling story. Recommended. -- Choice * I.D. Sasowsky, University of Akron * The publication of Jamie Linton's superb monograph, What is Water?, provides an opportunity to consider the development of relational and dialectical thought within geography and especially how this has developed around the subject of water. -- Alex Loftus, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London * The Geographical Journal *

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Jamie Linton is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University.

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