Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru

by Astrid B Stensrud and Astrid B. Stensrud

This book travels to the heart of power, inequality and injustice in water politics. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Astrid B. Stensrud explores the impact of climate change and extractivist neoliberal policies - including Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), a global paradigm that views water as a finite resource in need of management.

Where the local bureaucracy has adapted to IWRM and a new water culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745340202
• ISBN13: 9780745340203
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"