| 书目名称 | Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh | | 编辑 | Imtiaz Ahmed | | 视频video | | | 概述 | A fresh understanding of the relationship between rivers and people | | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Right to water may sound novel and somewhat dramatic, yet it has been central to the quest of human civilization for thousands of years. One of the earliest references to water as ‘common property’ can be found in the Jewish laws as early as 3000 BCE.Similar views are also found in Islam. In fact, the Arabic word for Islamic law - shari’ah - originally meant “the place from which one descends to water.”Since water is a gift from the divine to all living beings, sharing water is regarded as holy duty. This is found across religions, regions, societies, and communities, from New Zealand to Nigeria, from Bangladesh to Brazil. But then, what transformed the divine sanction? What led to the negation of the ‘commons,’ with sharing of the riverine water across territorial boundaries suffering the most?The answer probably lies as much as in the politics of safeguarding one’s personal or national interests as it is in the limitations imposed by our disciplinary understanding of things.In this context, a thorough reexamination, even reconceptualization,of some of the core issuesis required..Firstly, the concept of water needs to be understood not as H2O, as it is done in physical sciences,bu | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Geopolitics of Rivers; Women and Rivers; The Anthropocene and the Riverine People; River Rights; Water D | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69434-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-69433-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-69434-0Series ISSN 2193-3162 Series E-ISSN 2193-3170 | | issn_series | 2193-3162 | | copyright | The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |
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