David Getches: 2 books
Out of the Mainstream
Water Rights, Politics and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current...
Searching Out the Headwaters
Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
To the uninitiated, water policy seems a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve scant public participation, and in such a context,...