Power, nature, and the city. The conquest of water and the political ecology of urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador: 1880-1990

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
The A. attempts to reconstruct the urbanization process as a political and an ecological process. In Guayaquil, water becomes subject to an intense social struggle for control and access. The A. documents and analyzes the historical geography of water control in the context of the political ecology of the urbanization. The urbanization process is written from the perspective of the drive to domesticate nature's water and the necessity to push the ecological frontier outward as the city expands.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Environment and planning A, issn : 0308-518X, 1997, vol. 29, n°. 2, p. 311-332, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 4 p.

Date :
1997

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Pion