{"id":8051,"date":"2019-03-21T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:31:20","slug":"world-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/world-water-day","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Water Day<\/a> is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of freshwater and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. For an opportunity to learn more about water related issues and how\u00a0to take action to make a difference please visit\u00a0www.worldwaterday.org<\/a><\/h5>\n
In recognition of this year\u2019s World Water Day, Berghahn\u00a0Books is happy to offer 25% discount<\/strong> on all relevant titles. Visit our webpage<\/a> and\u00a0enter code Water19<\/strong> at checkout. Offer valid through April 22, 2019.<\/h5>\n
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We’re also delighted to offer FREE access to the following articles from Nature and Culture<\/a><\/em> until March 31st, 2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Nature<\/a><\/p>\n

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New Horizons for Sustainable Architecture: Hydrological Design for the Ecologically Responsive City<\/a><\/h6>\n
Building \u201cNatural\u201d Beauty: Drought and the Shifting Aesthetics of Nature in Santa Barbara, California<\/a><\/h6>\n
Water, Water Everywhere (or, Seeing Is Believing): The Visibility of Water Supply and the Public Will for Conservation<\/a><\/h6>\n
Sediment and State in Imperial China: The Yellow River Watershed as an Earth System and a World System<\/a><\/h6>\n
Dam Close Water Resources and Productions of Harmony in Central Japan<\/a><\/h6>\n
Perceptions of Water Quality in First Nations Communities: Exploring the Role of Context<\/a><\/h6>\n
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BOOKS<\/h3>\n

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Available in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

WATERWORLDS<\/a>
\nAnthropology in Fluid Environments
\nEdited by Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup<\/p>\n

Volume 3, Ethnography, Theory, Experiment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis collection is a rich quarry of manifold explorations of malleable, multiple, and vital waters in social and cultural life, which are always simultaneously a matter of concern for various political actions, and expressive of their own agentive capacities. Despite \u2013 or perhaps because of \u2013 the multiplicity of waters and approaches, it can be regarded as an asset to have these contributions combined in one book.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Anthropos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction:<\/a><\/strong> Waterworlds at Large<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Available in\u00a0Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF WATER<\/a>
\nEdited by John Richard Wagner<\/p>\n

Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents.<\/p>\n

\"Water,Forthcoming in September 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

WATER, LIFE, AND PROFIT
\nFluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
\nSara Beth Keough and Scott M. Youngstedt<\/p>\n

Water, Life, and Profit<\/em> offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger.<\/p>\n

\"\"Available in Paperback<\/i><\/p>\n

GARDENING THE WORLD<\/a>
\nAgency, Identity and the Ownership of Water
\nVeronica Strang<\/p>\n

\u201cAn interesting example of how to use the technique of ethnographic juxtaposition to highlight multiplicity\u2026 The experimental and evocative style\u2026 would make this book especially useful for undergraduate teaching, for courses on the comparative study of water, and for the examination of Australian history and politics”.<\/em> \u00b7 American Anthropologist<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"SALTWATER SOCIALITY<\/a>
\nA Melanesian Island Ethnography
\nKatharina Schneider<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evocative description and level of scholarship make Schneider\u2019s work a fine example of current ethnography which also provides valuable detail about how ethnographers do their work. This is a highly readable book for those with an interest in the region, a fascination with relatedness, and for anthropologists interested in accessing a written account of how useful ethnographic material might be collected.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 JRAI<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"CHOICE<\/em> OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007<\/p>\n

WATER – A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY<\/a>
\nUnited Nations\/WWAP
\nForeword by Kofi Annan
\nPrologue by Ko’chiro Matsuura
\nPreface by Gordon Young<\/p>\n

Drawing on an extensive database, expert analysis, case studies, and hundreds of graphic elements, it is the most comprehensive undertaking to date of freshwater assessment, providing a mechanism for monitoring changes in the resource and its management and progress towards achieving development targets, particularly the Millennium Development Goals.<\/p>\n

\"\"Available in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\n

WATER FOR PEOPLE \u2013 WATER FOR LIFE<\/a>
\nPublished in association with the United Nations
\nWith a foreword by Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations<\/p>\n

Based on the collective inputs of 23 United Nations agencies and convention secretariats, this Report offers a global overview of the state of the world’s freshwater resources. It is part of an on-going assessment process to develop policies and help with their implementation as well as to measure any progress towards achieving sustainable use of water resources.<\/p>\n

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Of relevant interest:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"AtAT HOME ON THE WAVES<\/a>
\nHuman Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
\nEdited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson<\/p>\n

Volume 24, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research \u2013 much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach \u2013 on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0At Sea in the Twenty-First Century<\/a><\/p>\n

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WEATHERING THE WORLD<\/a>
\nRecovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village
\nFrida Hastrup<\/p>\n

Volume 16, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India<\/p>\n

\"\"RIVERS, MEMORY, AND NATION-BUILDING<\/a>
\nA History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers
\nDorothy Zeisler-Vralsted<\/p>\n

Volume 5, Environment in History: International Perspectives<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe book will serve as a wellspring for more specific comparisons and as a methodological example for future scholarship.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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JOURNALS Of Related Interest<\/h3>\n

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Regions and Cohesion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Regions and Cohesion<\/em> is a needed platform for academics and practitioners alike to disseminate both empirical research and normative analysis of topics related to human and environmental security, social cohesion, and governance. It covers themes, such as the management of strategic resources, environment and society, social risk and marginalization, disasters and policy responses, violence, war and urban security, the quality of democracy, development, public health, immigration, human rights, organized crime, and cross-border human security.<\/p>\n

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Environment and Society<\/a><\/strong>
\nAdvances in Research<\/a><\/p>\n

Environment and Society<\/em> publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences.<\/p>\n

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