Water Sustainability

Anthropological Approaches and Prospects

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2296366
AutoresB Orlove (0000-0003-0489-4219, Columbia University), Steven C Caton (Harvard University)
Año2010
Volumen39
Número1
Páginas401-415
Fecha de publicación2010-10-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
EditorialAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105045
OpenAlexW2114603749
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas164
Referencias citadas91

Water has become an urgent theme in anthropology as the worldwide need to provide adequate supplies of clean water to all people becomes more challenging. Anthropologists contribute by seeing water not only as a resource, but also as a substance that connects many realms of social life. They trace the different forms of valuing water, examine the often unequal distribution of water, explore the rules and institutions that govern water use and shape water politics, and study the multiple, often conflicting knowledge systems through which actors understand water. They offer ethnographic insights into key water sites-watersheds, water regimes, and waterscapes-found in all settings, though with widely varying characteristics. Anthropologists provide a critical examination of a concept called integrated water resource management (IWRM), which has become hegemonic in the global discourse of sustainable development

Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Sustainability · Water resources · Cambodian History and Society · Ecology · Environmental Science · Integrated Water Resources Management · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure