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Author Palmer, Lisa, 1973- author.

Title Water politics and spiritual ecology : custom, environmental governance and development / Lisa Palmer
Published London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs
Series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Water cosmologies -- 3. Watery histories -- 4. Water pathways -- 5. Challenging the moral order : water, kinship and war -- 6. Water relations : the embodied politics of ritual and irrigated rice production -- 7. Independence and the (re)negotiation of customary relations
Summary As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance. In many areas water is not only a vital resource but is also endowed with an agency and power that connects people, spirit beings, place and space. The culmination of a decade of ethnographic research in Timor Leste, this book gives a critical account of the complex social and ecological specificities of a water-focused society in one of the world's newest nations. Comparatively framed by international exam
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2017)
Subject Water-supply -- Social aspects -- Timor-Leste
Water resources development -- Social aspects -- Timor-Leste
Water rights -- Timor-Leste
Water security -- Timor-Leste
Water resources development -- Social aspects
Water rights
Water security
Water-supply -- Social aspects
Timor-Leste
Form Electronic book
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