Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change
Subtitle: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 21, 2011
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9789400717732
Description: A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples.  It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and social systems analysis, as the functioning viability of nature is both sustained and threatened by humans.
Notes: Source title: Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?