Water and Environmental Justice

@inproceedings{Vanderwarker2012WaterAE,
  title={Water and Environmental Justice},
  author={Amy Vanderwarker},
  year={2012}
}
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Total Trihalomethane Levels in Major Watersheds across the United States
Trihalomethanes, such as chloroform, bromoform, dibromo(chloro)methane, and bromo(dichloro)methane, are present in the major watersheds across the United States. These chemicals play an important…
Making sense of the 2016 water crisis in San Andres, a Colombian Caribbean Island
  • C. Velásquez
  • Political Science
    Anais Brasileiros de Estudos Turísticos - ABET
  • 2019
In October 2015, the Colombian Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM) declared that the El Niño phenomenon had reached severe conditions, and later, on July 13, 2016,…
Chapter 26: Water security and environmental justice in Nigeria and South Africa: achievable concord or discordant alliance?
As the world seeks responses to converging risks from inequality and environmental change, attention is placed on the role of improved governance for sustainable development. The way in which…
Capacity, sustainability, and the community benefits of municipal utility ownership in the United States
  • G. Homsy
  • Economics
    Journal of Economic Policy Reform
  • 2018
ABSTRACT Most literature on utility sustainability focuses on internal operations; this misses the role that utilities could play within a community. This study measures the impact of municipal…
The Paradox of Water and the Flint Crisis
Image courtesy of FlintWaterStudy.orgPeople in the United States have grown up believing two assumptions about tap water, assumptions that appear so basic they hardly need to be stated: (1) that th...
New Water Regimes: An Editorial
This editorial is an introduction to the special issue of Resources on New Water Regimes. The special issue explores legal geographies of water resource management with the dual goals of providing…
Urban Street Stormwater Guide
  • 2017
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, DAMS AND DISPLACEMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIA REGION, TURKEY
Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015
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Dams and Displacement in Turkey and Pakistan
The development policy makers in both Turkey and Pakistan believe that the construction of dams would bring development and prosperity in their countries. Believing in this development model, so far…

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