Water, sovereignty, and borders in Asia and Oceania
By: edited by Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald.
Contributors: Ghosh, Devleena.; Goodall, Heather.
Series: Routledge studies in physical geography and environment -- 9
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415437264; 9780203884676
Subjects: Water rights -- Asia; Water rights -- Oceania; Water-supply -- Asia -- Management; Water-supply -- Oceania -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : fresh and salt / Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, and Stephen Muecke; title: The forms of water : in the land and in the soul / Jeff Malpas; title: Variable rights and diminishing control : the evolution of indigenous maritime sovereignty in Oceania / Paul D'Arcy; title: Ocean, empire, and nation : Japanese fisheries politics / Kate Barclay; title: Water futures and their influence on sovereignty in the Marshall Islands / Dirk H.R. Spennemann; title: "The fisherman's lot" : popular responses to the Indian Ocean in economic and ecological crisis / Devleena Ghosh and Stephen Muecke; title: Boundaries, scale, and power in South Asia / Douglas Hill; title: Intellectual critiques, people's resistance, and inter-riparian contestations : constraints to the power of the state regarding flood control and water management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta of Bangladesh / Shapan Adnan; title: Issues of scale in governing water as a common good : the Mekong River Basin / Philip Hirsch; title: Managing the Yellow River : questions of borders, boundaries, and access / Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Mark Wang; title: Watered Down? : legal constructs, tradable entitlements, and the regulation of water / Janice Gray; title: Water? : fluid perceptions / Tony McAvoy; title: For whom the Fitzroy River flows? : a fluctuating analysis of social and environmental sustainability and incremental sovereignty / Sandy Toussaint; title: Salt Pan Creek : rivers as border zones within the colonial city / Heather Goodall and Allison Cadzow.