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= the Water Commons Principles were developed by Our Water Commons. URL = http://www.ourwatercommons.org/about-us. Text. "We base our work on the following principles: Affirm water as a commons, that is, it belongs to everyone and no one, passed onto future generations in sufficient volume and quality.
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Jay Walljasper: "The water commons as a concept is easy to understand. And in a time when our planet is threatened by global warming, the importance of the idea is all-too-obvious. Put simply, the water commons means that water is no one’s property; it rightfully belongs to all of humanity and to the earth itself. It is our duty to protect the qual...
"By necessity, but also driven by a different vision, citizens are both effectively resisting threats and creating alternatives. Here are just a few examples: 1. In April 2008, the grassroots group, Coalition against Water Privatization, won a landmark lawsuit, granting people in the Johannesburg township of Soweto, South Africa, the legal right to...
Karen Bakker: "The question of whether water should be treated as a commons or a commodity has a longhistory. In contemporary discussions, this question often occurs in the context of debates over thesharing of responsibility for water supply between the state, the private sector, and citizens. These are pressing issues, given that private corporat...
"In her wide travels studying and speaking out on these issues, Maude Barlow (author of Blue Gold), sees signs of an emerging water commons consciousness. The efforts at this point are largely local, but when added all together she sees potential for a global movement to press claims to water as fundamental right for all. • Uruguay amended its cons...
Daniel Moss: "Across Latin America and Africa, consumer, human rights, and environmental organizations have campaigned successfully for constitutional amendments and laws enshrining water as a human right. At the recent World Water Forum in Instanbul, 25 countries signed a declaration affirming that same right (the official declaration weakly sugge...
Reclaiming Public Water. Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World. By Brid Brennan, et al. download: The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the g...
Many examples of innovative water policies are outlined in a new report, “Local Control and Management of Our Water Commons: Stories of Rising to the Challenge”, at http://www.onthecommons.org/medi...Report: Our Water CommonsIntroduction: Water: commons or commodity?By Karen Bakker2014年6月10日 · Guerrilla Translation - P2P Foundation. About. Inspired by a love of sharing, Guerrilla Translation facilitates access to valuable ideas in uncertain times. Guerrilla Translation is a collaborative hub for authors and translators to network and share stimulating ideas internationally.
Definition. "distributed revision control takes a peer-to-peer approach, as opposed to the client-server approach of centralized systems. Rather than a single, central repository with which clients synchronize, each peer's working copy of the codebase is a bona fide repository. Synchronization is conducted by exchanging changesets, which define ...
2012年2月13日 · Typology. Brewster Kneen: "Roman law recognised five different categories of what might be described as ‘impersonal' property7. These categories are not tidy, as indicated by the word res, the Latin word for ‘thing,' a fuzzy word if there ever was one. But they do offer more ‘property' options than seem to be recognised today.
On the international level Hannes Lorenzen is co-founder of Genetic Resources Action International (www.grain.org) and co-president of the European Rural Development Network Forum Synergies (www.forum-synergies.eu). He is also co-founder and chairperson of PREPARE, the "Partnership for Rural Europe" network for Central and Eastern European ...
* Article: Open Problems in DAOs. By Joshua Z. Tan, Tara Merk et al. URL = https://daoscience.org/ draft "An interdisciplinary survey paper of open problems, research ...
