The Last Drop: The Politics of Water - Couverture souple

Gonzalez, Mike; Yanes, Marianella

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745334911 ISBN 13 : 9780745334912

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are testimony to how high the stakes are - by 2012 it had become a worth a trillion dollars. The Last Drop traces a path through the complex arguments that surround the question of water, setting out to make the technical and scientific arguments more accessible and the political questions more urgent. Against the market fundamentalists, Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes argue that it is both possible and necessary that considerations of equity and social justice prevail in the debates around water. They call for our water supply to be saved from subordination to the whims of the multinationals and placed under direct democratic public control. This book will be a vital resource for water activists and a wake-up call to everyone who takes for granted what comes out of their kitchen tap.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012) and author of Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745334911
• ISBN 13: 9780745334912
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224