The Resource What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction, Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction, Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
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- Summary
- "We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction--to mere H[subscript 2]O--this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- Contents
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- The constitution of modern water
- Modern water in crisis
- Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime"
- Hydrolectics
- Fixing the flow : the things we make of water
- Relational dialectics : putting things in fluid terms
- Intimations of modern water
- From premodern waters to modern water
- The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred
- The Hortonian hydrologic cycle
- Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state
- Culmination : global water
- Isbn
- 9780774817035
- Label
- What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction
- Title
- What is water?
- Title remainder
- the history of a modern abstraction
- Statement of responsibility
- Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water. Jamie Linton dives into the history of water as an abstract concept, stripped of its environmental, social, and cultural contexts. Reduced to a scientific abstraction--to mere H[subscript 2]O--this concept has given modern society licence to dam, divert, and manipulate water with apparent impunity. Part of the solution to the water crisis involves reinvesting water with social content, thus altering the way we see water. What Is Water? offers a fresh approach to a fundamental problem."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- CaPaEBR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Linton, Jamie
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Nature, history, society,
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- Whitman College
- Water
- Hydrologic cycle
- Water
- Water
- Water
- Label
- What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction, Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- The constitution of modern water
- Modern water in crisis
- Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime"
- Hydrolectics
- Fixing the flow : the things we make of water
- Relational dialectics : putting things in fluid terms
- Intimations of modern water
- From premodern waters to modern water
- The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred
- The Hortonian hydrologic cycle
- Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state
- Culmination : global water
- Control code
- ebr10831349
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780774817035
- Isbn Type
- (e-book)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Note
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)872675031
- Label
- What is water? : the history of a modern abstraction, Jamie Linton ; foreword by Graeme Wynn
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The constitution of modern water
- Modern water in crisis
- Sustaining modern water : the new "global water regime"
- Hydrolectics
- Fixing the flow : the things we make of water
- Relational dialectics : putting things in fluid terms
- Intimations of modern water
- From premodern waters to modern water
- The hydrologic cycle(s) : scientific and sacred
- The Hortonian hydrologic cycle
- Reading the resource : modern water, the hydrologic cycle, and the state
- Culmination : global water
- Control code
- ebr10831349
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780774817035
- Isbn Type
- (e-book)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Note
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)872675031
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