Author: Andrea E. Pia
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448858
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change. China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global water supplies, Cutting the Mass Line explores the enduring political, technical, and ethical project of making water available to human communities and ecosystems in a time of drought, infrastructural disrepair, and environmental breakdown. Anthropologist Andrea E. Pia explores essential questions of how to manage water resources from the vantage point of Huize County, a water-challenged, ecologically damaged, multi-ethnic area in rural Yunnan Province. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival materials, and statistical data, Pia brings readers inside the inner workings of China's complex water supply ecosystem by exploring the intricate relationships among Chinese water services agencies; water user associations; dam construction sites; party cadres and rural entrepreneurs, mediators, and farmers; and foreign development planners. The climate crisis and the global politics of sustainability and mitigation offer unanticipated leeway for experimental grassroots intrusions in what has traditionally been the sphere of elite regulatory action: water allocation and distribution. Rural residents' efforts to keep access to local water sources and flourish in their own communities are moving the political possibilities of climate and environmental collective action in exciting and unforeseen directions. As the world grapples with challenges to water quality, supply, and control, the impacts of China's resource management strategies will be a provocative and useful study for the future.
Cutting the Mass Line
Author: Andrea E. Pia
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448858
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change. China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global water supplies, Cutting the Mass Line explores the enduring political, technical, and ethical project of making water available to human communities and ecosystems in a time of drought, infrastructural disrepair, and environmental breakdown. Anthropologist Andrea E. Pia explores essential questions of how to manage water resources from the vantage point of Huize County, a water-challenged, ecologically damaged, multi-ethnic area in rural Yunnan Province. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival materials, and statistical data, Pia brings readers inside the inner workings of China's complex water supply ecosystem by exploring the intricate relationships among Chinese water services agencies; water user associations; dam construction sites; party cadres and rural entrepreneurs, mediators, and farmers; and foreign development planners. The climate crisis and the global politics of sustainability and mitigation offer unanticipated leeway for experimental grassroots intrusions in what has traditionally been the sphere of elite regulatory action: water allocation and distribution. Rural residents' efforts to keep access to local water sources and flourish in their own communities are moving the political possibilities of climate and environmental collective action in exciting and unforeseen directions. As the world grapples with challenges to water quality, supply, and control, the impacts of China's resource management strategies will be a provocative and useful study for the future.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421448858
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Explores the growing water supply crisis through an ethnographic study of a rural minority community in China threatened by climate change. China is experiencing climate whiplash—extreme fluctuations between drought and flooding—that threatens the health and autonomy of millions of people. Set against mounting anxiety over the future of global water supplies, Cutting the Mass Line explores the enduring political, technical, and ethical project of making water available to human communities and ecosystems in a time of drought, infrastructural disrepair, and environmental breakdown. Anthropologist Andrea E. Pia explores essential questions of how to manage water resources from the vantage point of Huize County, a water-challenged, ecologically damaged, multi-ethnic area in rural Yunnan Province. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, archival materials, and statistical data, Pia brings readers inside the inner workings of China's complex water supply ecosystem by exploring the intricate relationships among Chinese water services agencies; water user associations; dam construction sites; party cadres and rural entrepreneurs, mediators, and farmers; and foreign development planners. The climate crisis and the global politics of sustainability and mitigation offer unanticipated leeway for experimental grassroots intrusions in what has traditionally been the sphere of elite regulatory action: water allocation and distribution. Rural residents' efforts to keep access to local water sources and flourish in their own communities are moving the political possibilities of climate and environmental collective action in exciting and unforeseen directions. As the world grapples with challenges to water quality, supply, and control, the impacts of China's resource management strategies will be a provocative and useful study for the future.
Washington Public Documents
Author: Washington (State)
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1616
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1616
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Drawing the Line
Author: Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher: Mark Monmonier
ISBN: 9780805025811
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Argues that maps can be manipulated to distort the truth, and shows how they have been used for propaganda in international affairs, political districting, and finding toxic dump sites
Publisher: Mark Monmonier
ISBN: 9780805025811
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Argues that maps can be manipulated to distort the truth, and shows how they have been used for propaganda in international affairs, political districting, and finding toxic dump sites
Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Report of the Harbor Line Commission of the State of Washington, with the Report of the Engineer of the Commission
Author: Washington (State). Harbor Line Commission
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Computational Line Geometry
Author: Helmut Pottmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642040187
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
From the reviews: " A unique and fascinating blend, which is shown to be useful for a variety of applications, including robotics, geometrical optics, computer animation, and geometric design. The contents of the book are visualized by a wealth of carefully chosen illustrations, making the book a shear pleasure to read, or even to just browse in." Mathematical Reviews
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642040187
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
From the reviews: " A unique and fascinating blend, which is shown to be useful for a variety of applications, including robotics, geometrical optics, computer animation, and geometric design. The contents of the book are visualized by a wealth of carefully chosen illustrations, making the book a shear pleasure to read, or even to just browse in." Mathematical Reviews
US-20/Broadway (Transit Road to Lancaster East Village Line) Reconstruction
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Thin Red Line
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Report and Accompanying Documents of the Virginia Commissioners
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385218764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385218764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
The Statutes of California
Author: California
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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