Drinking Water: A Socio-economic Analysis of Historical and Societal Variation
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 1087
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315745848
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138816978
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book develops a neo-Polanyian analysis of the way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired, and consumed in different societies. It is methodologically both historical and comparative. Funded by the ESRC and British Council, its international collaborative approach with researchers from Europe, India, Taiwan, and Mexico stretches understandings of what we mean by 'an economy', quality, and property rights. It analyses the sociogenic character of sustainability crises, whether they be droughts or floods, pollution or land subsidence, epidemics or climate change. In so doing, it develops a social scientific understanding for the greatest challenges facing the world today.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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