Reflections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Conflicts and Cooperation

Bys: Michael E. Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki

Book Overview

The fluidity of transboundary waters perfectly represents contemporary challenges to modern governance. This book offers conceptual and empirical support for the idea that the human relationship with water must move beyond rationalist definitions of water as product, property, and commodity. Depending on context, water may be a security issue, a gift of nature, a product of imagination, or an integral part of the natural or cultural ecology. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262522845
• ISBN13: 9780262522847
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher