Franck Poupeau, Brian O'Neill, Joan Cortinas Muñoz, Murielle Coeurdray, Eliza Benites-Gambirazio

The Field of Water Policy (eBook, PDF)

Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new approach to environmental problems. Bringing the tools of Bourdieu's field sociology to bear on a moment of environmental crisis with a study of the logics of water policy in the American Southwest, it reveals the contest over the management of scarce resources in a context of lasting drought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429576843
• Artikelnr.: 58344814

Autorenporträt

Franck Poupeau is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and he has been the co-director of the joint international unit for Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies (UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona) from 2012 to 2017. He is the co-editor of several books on water policy: Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty (2016), Water Regimes: Beyond the Public and Private Sector Debate (2016), Water Conflicts and Hydrocracy in the Americas: Coalitions, Networks, Policies (2018).

Brian F. O'Neill is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA, CNRS/Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Joan Cortinas Muñoz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences Po Paris, France. Previously, he worked at the UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona.

Murielle Coeurdray is a postdoctoral researcher at the UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona.

Eliza Benites-Gambirazio is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA, and at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA, CNRS/Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - A Sociological Perspective on Water Policy 1. Engineering
Arid Spaces: The Emergence of Western Hydrocracies 2. Supporting the
Economic Order: Urban Sprawl and Coalitions for Growth 3. Reinventing Water
Conservation: Institutions for Sustainability 4. Sharing Flows: New
Professionals with Old Methods 5. Implementing Water Policy: Instruments
and their Social Uses in the Colorado River Basin Conclusion - Dealing with
Scarcity Annex #1 - Revisiting the Laws of the River Annex #2 - Statistical
Analysis