El negocio del agua: Cómo Chile se convirtió en tierra seca

Abstract

The business of water is a book based on journalistic research that examines the water management model in Chile. Though not defined under that label, we could locate this work within the field of Latin American political ecology, offering a balanced combination of academic rigour, political commitment and social sensitivities. To reach this result, the authors Tania Tamayo and Alejandra Carmona, journalists and scholars of the University of Chile, carried out an impressive document review research and careful fieldwork, offering the readers a thick description based on empirical data, without losing track of the larger picture and structural conditioning that determines the Chilean water management model. Methdologically, the only weakness is that the book fails to offer a detailed list of bibliographic references and other sources. This is expected as it is not an academic publication, but it would have been helpful for those peaople aiming to study the problems engaged by this book.