Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Colonial Origins of Global Water Inequality; Part I. Wheeling and Dealing Water in the Americas; 1. Water Hoarding in a California Drought; 2. How a Coup Opened Chile's Water Markets; Part II. Postcolonial Water Insurgencies; 3. South Africa's...

Plastic pollution has now become the most urgent issue harming the marine environment, not only in developing countries where waste management infrastructure is insufficient, but also in the world’s oceans as a whole, because macro-plastic items degrade slowly and produce micro-plastic. The...