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By Mikael D. Wolfe
... Envirotech Water conservation Mexican Revolution Lázaro Cárdenas Laguna ...
Book Chapter

By Mikael D. Wolfe
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373063-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7306-3
... revolutionary agrarian reform in the 1930s under Lázaro Cárdenas. Following a short chapter outline, it provides a conceptual framework of “envirotech” through which the book challenges existing Mexican water and environmental histories. Namely, the introduction highlights how Mexican water conservation policy...
Book Chapter

By James A. Joseph
Published: 21 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... environmental ethics moral theories economic development land conservation water management ...
Series: Elements
Published: 19 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059011-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5901-1
... slaughter and transshipment of sharks from the waters surrounding Timor-Leste and the Galápagos National Park, Ecuador, to China. While the drone assisted this conservation, ultimately the marine poachers escaped with impunity because of a bribe. In the process, this chapter argues that the capacities...
Published: 23 February 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2757-7
... (e.g., Colorado River), requiring increasingly strict water use conservation measures. sea level rise ocean acidification marine heat waves tsunamis floods precipitation drought ...
Published: 19 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373063-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7306-3
.... It then describes the longer-term historical ecology of the Laguna since the colonial period; how land tenure and water rights fit into and affected that ecology through irrigated cotton growing; and the emergence of agrarian reform as a broad process of social, legal, environmental, and technological change during...
Series: Elements
Published: 19 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059011-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5901-1
.... This approach is an example of ocean/cultures—an ocean distinguished from human culture by technologies and conservation and a path toward coexistence with sharks in Australian waters. shark net hook coexistence natureculture ...
...El Agua de la Revolución (The Water of the Revolution) The chapter opens with the ill-fated effort by the “apostle of Mexican democracy,” Francisco I. Madero, shortly before the Mexican Revolution to unite his fellow landowning, riverine Laguneros to lobby the government for a high dam...
Published: 21 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375548-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... and economic development, the tension between oil drillers and fishermen and coal miners and park enthusiasts were just a few of the issues requiring both good policy analysis and transcendent moral principles. environmental ethics moral theories economic development land conservation water...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-125
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... with Collas (Andean highlanders). The conservative government of Hugo Banzer Suárez, the last cruceño national political leader, had been shaken to its core during the Water War in Cochabamba in 2000. With Banzer’s resignation in August 2001, the prospects for active support for the Santa Cruz region...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... history of conservative politics, antagonism toward central government in La Paz, and tensions with Collas (Andean highlanders). The conservative government of Hugo Banzer Suárez, the last cruceño national political leader, had been shaken to its core during the Water War in Cochabamba in 2000...
Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 17 March 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384335-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8433-5
Published: 21 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
... between oil drillers and fishermen and coal miners and park enthusiasts were just a few of the issues requiring both good policy analysis and transcendent moral principles. environmental ethics moral theories economic development land conservation water management The 1980s were more than...