By Veronica Strang
Around the realm, intensifying improvement and human calls for for clean water are putting unsustainable pressures on finite assets. international locations are waging struggle over transboundary rivers, and rural and concrete groups are more and more divided as irrigation calls for compete with family wishes. Marginal teams are wasting entry to water as robust elites guard their very own pursuits, and whole ecosystems are being critically degraded. those difficulties are fairly obtrusive in Australia, with its industrialised economic climate and arid weather. but there were really few makes an attempt to ascertain the social and cultural complexities that underlie people's engagements with water. in accordance with long term ethnographic fieldwork in significant Australian river catchments (the Mitchell River in Cape York, and the Brisbane River in southeast Queensland), this publication examines their significant water utilizing and dealing with teams: indigenous groups, farmers, industries, leisure and family water clients, and environmental organizations. It explores the problems that form their diversified ideals, values and practices relating to water, and considers the particularly cultural or sub-cultural meanings that they encode of their fabric atmosphere. via an research of every group's varied efforts to 'garden the world', it presents insights into the complexities of human-environmental relationships.
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