Water, sovereignty, and borders in Asia and Oceania /

Water, sovereignty, and borders in Asia and Oceania / edited by Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, c2009 - xiii, 216 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; 9 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : fresh and salt / Devleena Ghosh, Heather Goodall, and Stephen Muecke -- The forms of water : in the land and in the soul / Jeff Malpas -- Variable rights and diminishing control : the evolution of indigenous maritime sovereignty in Oceania / Paul D'Arcy -- Ocean, empire, and nation : Japanese fisheries politics / Kate Barclay -- Water futures and their influence on sovereignty in the Marshall Islands / Dirk H.R. Spennemann -- "The fisherman's lot" : popular responses to the Indian Ocean in economic and ecological crisis / Devleena Ghosh and Stephen Muecke -- Boundaries, scale, and power in South Asia / Douglas Hill -- 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 -- Issues of scale in governing water as a common good : the Mekong River Basin / Philip Hirsch -- Managing the Yellow River : questions of borders, boundaries, and access / Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Mark Wang -- Watered Down? : legal constructs, tradable entitlements, and the regulation of water / Janice Gray -- Water? : fluid perceptions / Tony McAvoy -- For whom the Fitzroy River flows? : a fluctuating analysis of social and environmental sustainability and incremental sovereignty / Sandy Toussaint -- Salt Pan Creek : rivers as border zones within the colonial city / Heather Goodall and Allison Cadzow

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