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Bringing together a multidisciplinary set of scholars and diverse case studies from across the globe, this book explores the management, governance, and underst

A critique of the global emphasis on water's economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in Peru

While COVID-19 has hit Peru particularly hard, with more than half a million cases, the pandemic further emphasised the importance of water and sanitation for h