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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the Authors |
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| Acronyms |
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Part I Water and Cultural Diversity |
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1 Introduction: Water and Cultural Diversity |
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1.1 Placing Water and Culture |
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Box 1.1a Waters and culture in the Doce River Basin of southeast Brazil: Mobilization and construction of a new perspective |
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21 | (10) |
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1.2 The Paradigm Shift in India's River Policies: From Sacred to Transferable Waters |
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31 | (18) |
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Box 1.2a Isoso Guarani culture and livelihoods shaped by, and dependent on, the pulsing Parapeti River in the arid |
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39 | (10) |
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1.3 Rethinking the Role of Humans in Water Management: Toward a New Model of Decision-Making |
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49 | (16) |
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Box 1.3a `Space for the River,' space for diversity? |
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54 | (11) |
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1.4 Local Water Management in the Andes: Interplay of Domination, Power and Collective Participation |
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65 | (12) |
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1.5 The Power of a Disappearance: Water in the Jerid Region of Tunis |
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77 | (20) |
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Box 1.5a Climate change, water, and development in daily life in Tuvalu |
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88 | (9) |
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1.6 Diverting Water: Cultural Plurality and Public Water Features in an Urban Environment |
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97 | (22) |
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Part II Culture and Water in Diverse Environments |
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2 Introduction: Culture and Water in Diverse Environments |
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119 | (102) |
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2.1 Watersheds and Marinescapes: Understanding and Maintaining Cultural Diversity Among Southeast Alaska Natives |
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123 | (14) |
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Box 2.1a River, sea, and sky: Indigenous water cosmology and coastal ownership amongst the Yolngu people in Australia |
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124 | (8) |
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Box 2.1b Blue ecology and the unifying potential of water |
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132 | (5) |
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2.2 The Influence of Westernization on Water Resources Use and Conservation Among the Maasai People of Kenya |
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137 | (12) |
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Box 2.2a Sand dams and plant indicators: Indigenous knowledge in water resource use and management among the Kamba People, Kenya |
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141 | (8) |
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2.3 Groundwater and Qanats in Syria: Leadership, Ownership, and Abandonment |
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149 | (14) |
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2.4 Case Studies from the Americas |
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163 | (8) |
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Box 2.4a Water, livelihoods, and morality around the Panama Canal |
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163 | (3) |
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Box 2.4b Saving the Pilcomayo River in Argentina: Traditional criollo ranchers resist destruction of an ecosystem and a way of life |
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166 | (2) |
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Box 2.4c Working on water: Cultural survival in the `tri-state water wars' |
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168 | (3) |
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2.5 Nourishing Diversity in Water Governance: The Case of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico |
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171 | (14) |
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2.6 Water Knowledge, Use, and Governance: Tibetan Participatory Development Along the Mekong (Langcangjiang) River, in Yunnan, China |
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185 | (18) |
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Box 2.6a Water culture traditions: Pond myths |
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189 | (3) |
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Box 2.6b Water and culture in the land of the gods |
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192 | (8) |
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Box 2.6c Development, disaster and myth: A case study |
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200 | (3) |
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2.7 Ecological Change and the Sociocultural Consequences of the Ganges River's Decline |
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203 | (18) |
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Box 2.7a Mitigating the impacts of Himalayan glacial melt: Trends and policy recommendations |
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205 | (9) |
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Box 2.7b Perceptions of chaotic water regimes in northeastern Siberia |
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214 | (7) |
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Part III Water Value, Access, Use, and Control: Sociocultural Contexts of Water Scarcity |
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3 Introduction: Water Value, Access, Use, and Control: Sociocultural Contexts of Water Scarcity |
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221 | (70) |
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3.1 Culture, Gender, and Vulnerability in a Vietnamese Refugee Community: Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina |
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225 | (12) |
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Box 3.1a Water in a Hungarian Roma community |
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230 | (7) |
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3.2 Water, Culture, and Gender: An Analysis from Bangladesh |
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237 | (16) |
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Box 3.2a Managing domestic water in Bangladesh after the arsenic crisis: A case study |
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241 | (5) |
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Box 3.2b The purity problem and access to water in Bangladesh |
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246 | (3) |
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Box 3.2c A new type of `social problem' -- Comments of some male and female union council members in Ramganj Sub-district, Laksmipur District, Bangladesh From Suzanne Hanchett's field notes, 2006 |
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249 | (4) |
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3.3 Privatization and Collective Stewardship of Water Resources: Case Studies |
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253 | (12) |
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Box 3.3a Zimbabwe's water crises: The importance of environmental governance and a right to water |
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253 | (4) |
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Box 3.3b Extremely private: Water trading and the commoditization of water in Australia |
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257 | (3) |
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Box 3.3c Acequia communities and the politics of water |
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260 | (5) |
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3.4 Manufacturing Water Scarcity, Generating Environmental Inequity |
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265 | (26) |
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Box 3.4a Water, indigenous |
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267 | (3) |
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Box 3.4b Legacies and challenges in integrating cultural diversity in the Sierra Leone water sector |
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270 | (7) |
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Box 3.4c The vulnerabilities of native peoples in the Mackenzie and Athabasca drainage systems: Tar sands, gas, and uranium |
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277 | (14) |
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Part IV Hydrodevelopment, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability |
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4 Introduction: Hydrodevelopment, Cultural Diversity, and Sustainability |
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291 | (114) |
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4.1 Water, Culture, Power: Hydrodevelopment Dynamics |
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295 | (24) |
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Box 4.1a Consequential damages of dam development: Maya A'chi experiences in Guatemala |
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298 | (5) |
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303 | (4) |
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Box 4.1c One person, one vote -- The voice of communities in development decisions |
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307 | (4) |
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Box 4.1d Power struggles -- dams on Brazil's Xingu River |
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311 | (8) |
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4.2 The Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Water, Culture, and Environmental Change |
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319 | (20) |
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Box 4.2a The fight over fish in the Lesotho Highlands |
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328 | (2) |
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Box 4.2b Dams, diversions and transboundary river management |
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330 | (9) |
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4.3 Not All Dams in Africa Are Developmental: Advocacy Perspectives from the African Rivers Network |
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339 | (10) |
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Box 4.3a People-centred development |
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341 | (3) |
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Box 4.3b Ethiopia's Gibe 3 dam endangers Kenya's Iake Turkana: An activist's view |
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344 | (5) |
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4.4 Drowning Under Progress: Water, Culture, and Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion |
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349 | (18) |
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Box 4.4a Rasi Salai, Thailand |
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350 | (3) |
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353 | (14) |
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4.5 Damming China's Angry River: Vulnerability in a Culturally and Biologically Diverse Watershed |
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367 | (20) |
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Box 4.5a Lessons from Tibet's only successful anti-dam campaign |
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375 | (12) |
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4.6 Cultural Survival, Tribal Sovereignty and River Restoration on the Central Northwest Coast, North America |
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387 | (18) |
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Box 4.6a Declining salmon, large dams, and the capitalist world-economy: A case study of biocultural diversity in the Nez Perce homeland |
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388 | (17) |
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5 Introduction: The Ways Forward |
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5.1 Managing `Water Traditions' in Uttarakhand, India: Lessons Learned and Steps Towards the Future |
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411 | (22) |
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Box 5.1a Path to sustainable development: Water parliament in India |
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412 | (21) |
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5.2 `El Agua es Vida/Water Is Life': Community Watershed Reserves in Intag, Ecuador, and Emerging Ecological Identities |
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433 | (20) |
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Box 5.2a Resurgence of campesino community associations to reforest and calm an angry river, Upriver Parapeti River, Sub-Andean Gran Chaco, Bolivia |
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443 | (3) |
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Box 5.2b The sustainability of a customary Andean water institution among the urban poor of Cochabamba, Bolivia |
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446 | (7) |
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5.3 Cultural Flows: Asserting Indigenous Rights and Interests in the Waters of the Murray-Darling River System, Australia |
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453 | (14) |
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Box 5.3a Environmental flows |
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458 | (9) |
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5.4 Environmental Flow Assessments: A Participatory Process Enabling Maori Cultural Values to Inform Flow Regime Setting |
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467 | (26) |
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Box 5.4a Creating a cultural health index for assessing stream health |
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486 | (7) |
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5.5 Droplets of Hope: Searching for Sustainability and Common Ground in the Arab/Israeli Conflict |
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493 | (16) |
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Box 5.5a Participatory action research: water in a Hungarian Roma community |
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502 | (7) |
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5.6 `Water for Life'... Water for Whose Life? Water, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development in the United Nations |
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Box 5.6a The influence of culture on interactions between stakeholders of rural water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion programmes: Lessons from Uganda |
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515 | (18) |
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| Appendices: Water, Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity: United Nations Statements, Resolutions and Treaties |
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533 | (4) |
| Glossary |
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537 | (20) |
| Index |
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