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Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal /

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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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Main Author: Carse, Ashley, 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Series:Infrastructures series
Subjects:
Panama Canal (Panama) > Design and construction.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Social conditions.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Environmental aspects.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ENVIRONMENT/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps.
ISBN:9780262320467
0262320460
1322294046
9781322294049
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262028110.001.0001