History of Water - The Political Economy of Water

Informationen zum Autor Terje Tvedt is Professor of Geography at the University of Bergen and Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The River Nile in the Age of the British and has co-directed and written two successful television documentaries on water. Richard Coopey is with the Department of History at the University of Aberystwyth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Klappentext This volume is the second of three that explore all aspects of water - social! cultural! political! religious! historical! economic and technological - from ancient times to the present day. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature. Zusammenfassung This volume is the second of three that explore all aspects of water - social! cultural! political! religious! historical! economic and technological - from ancient times to the present day. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature.

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• Authors: R. Coopey, R. Tvedt Coopey, Coopey R., Terje Tvedt, Tvedt Terje
• Assisted by: Richard Coopey (Editor), Terje Tvedt (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2006
• EAN: 9781850434467
• ISBN: 978-1-85043-446-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: History of Water; History of Water Series I; History of Water Series I; History of Water
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; NATURE / Natural Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Political Economy, Environmental Management, Physical geography & topography, Human Geography, Historical Geography, Physical geography and topography, Development and environmental geography