Beyond the big ditch politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal
This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated wat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2014
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| Series: | Infrastructures series
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 298 pages illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 9780262320467 0262320460 |