Water (Pocket)
avVeronica Strang
ISBN: 9781780234328 - UTGIVEN: 2015-07Since the beginning of time humans have had a vital relationship with water. Water considers humanity's interaction with this essential substance, its physical properties and their material effects, as well as exploring how diverse societies have engaged with these in different times and places. The[...]
Gardening the World (Häftad)
avVeronica Strang
ISBN: 9781782381303 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05Around the world, intensifying development and human demands for fresh water are placing unsustainable pressures on finite resources. Countries are waging war over transboundary rivers, and rural and urban communities are increasingly divided as irrigation demands compete with domestic desires. Marg[...]
What Anthropologists Do (Häftad)
avVeronica Strang
ISBN: 9781845203559 - UTGIVEN: 200905What is Anthropology? Why should you study it? What will you learn? And what can you do with it? What Anthropologists Do answers all these questions. And more. Anthropology is an astonishingly diverse and engaged subject that seeks to understand human social behaviour. What Anthropologists Do presen[...]
Ownership and Appropriation (Pocket)
avVeronica Strang, Mark Busse
ISBN: 9781847886859 - UTGIVEN: 2012-03-13In a world of finite resources, expanding populations and widening structural inequalities, the ownership of things is increasingly contested. Not only are the commons being rapidly enclosed and privatized, but the very idea of what can be owned is expanding, generating conflicts over the ownership [...]
The Meaning Of Water (Pocket)
avVeronica Strang
ISBN: 9781859737538 - UTGIVEN: 2004-02-01Water is the most valuable of our natural resources. It is, however, predicted that an alarming percentage of major cities are going to be running short of it in the next decade. How will this rising demand for water be met? What are the implications of climate change? And what drives a quarter of t[...]
