Información General

• Autores: Joe Williams (ed. lit.), Erik Swyngedouw (ed. lit.)
• Editores: Edward Elgar
• Año de publicación: 2018
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978 1 78811 380 9
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Resumen

• Tapping the Oceans provides a detailed analysis of the political and ecological debates facing water desalination in the twenty-first century.

  Water supplies for cities around the world are undergoing profound geographical, technological and political transformations. Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Yet the use of emerging desalination technologies is accompanied by intense debates on their economic cost, governance, environmental impact and poses wider questions for the sustainable and just provision of urban water. Through a series of cutting-edge case studies and multi-subject approaches, this book explores the perspectives, disputes and politics surrounding water desalination on a broad geographical scale.

  As the first book of its kind, this unique work will appeal to those researching water and infrastructure issues in the fields of political ecology, geography, environmental science and sustainability. Industry and water managers who wish to understand the political debates around desalination technology more fully will also find this an informative read

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Listado de artículos

• • Mobilising the oceans to quench our thirst

    Joe Williams, Erik Swyngedouw

    pág. 1

    

  • Wet dreams with a grain of salt:: Desalination in Spain's water policy

    David Saurí i Pujol, Santiago Gorostiza Langa, David Pavón Gamero

    pág. 24

    

  • Water Governance and Desalination in Baja California Sur, Mexico

    Jamie McEvoy

    pág. 40

    

  • On the Implications of Seawater Desalination: Some Insights from the Israeli Case

    Eran Feitelson

    pág. 60

    

  • Disclosing water inequalities at the household level under desalination water provision; the case of Antofagasta, Chile

    Maria Christina Fragkou

    pág. 60

    

  • Desalination as emergency fix:: Tracing the drought–desalination assemblage in South Africa

    Suraya Scheba, Andreas Scheba

    pág. 76

    

  • Worlding via water:: Desalination, cluster development and the ‘stickiness’ of commodities

    Mark Usher

    pág. 98

    

  • Financialising desalination in London:: The Thames Desalination Plant (TWDP)

    Alex Loftus, Hug March Corbella

    pág. 121

    

  • Commodifying the Pacific Ocean:: Desalination and the neoliberalisation of water in Southern California

    Joe Williams

    pág. 149

    

  • Politicizing the salt of the seas

    Erik Swyngedouw, Joe Williams

    pág. 166