By John M. Whiteley, Helen Ingram, Richard Warren Perry
An agument for the significance of fairness as a criterion in comparing water coverage, with examples in wide-ranging case experiences from North and South the US and Europe.
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 233–275. Young, Robert A. 2005. Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future. I Water, Place, and Equity Water has constitutive as well as transformative powers. Landscapes that we treasure, such as Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon, display the power of water at work both to infuse its watery presence into, and to utterly transform both spectacle and observer. Communities that we care about are built around water in the most mundane sense of needing water to sustain them.
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