Thesis
Environmental costs and economic benefits: a community response to the "neoliberalization of nature" in the United States
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102590
Abstract
A water crisis has intensified throughout the world leaving millions without access. Two perspectives dominate the discourse around water policy. One perspective views water as a public commons to be democratically controlled in the political realm while another sees it as a commodity best managed by the market. In both the global North and South, a water justice movement is growing in opposition to the trend of what some scholars conceptualize as the ‗neoliberalization of nature.' A range of management controversies over two facets of drinking water--municipal supplies/delivery and bottled water--are being negotiated. While the water crisis is gaining interest as a global controversy and topic of inquiry especially in countries like Bolivia, less attention has been given to the effects of economic globalization on water resources and grassroots responses to water commodification in Northern countries such as the United States. Through an ethnographic study conducted in Cascade Locks, Oregon, where Nestlé Waters North America has proposed to open a water bottling facility, this research explores how the control of water is negotiated at the community level.
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Details
- Title
- Environmental costs and economic benefits
- Creators
- Soren Mikayla Newman
- Contributors
- Daniel Jaffee (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525077201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis