This ecological history of peasant society in the Peruvian Andes focuses on the politics of irrigation and water management in three villages whose terraces and

Cabanaconde, a town of 5,000 people, is located in the arid Andean highlands. It is dominated by the foreboding Hualca Hualca mountain peak that is the source o

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negoti

"This book shines a light on how changes to Peru's fishing policies and fishery management affect the lives of impoverished artisanal fisherman"--Provided by pu