When Janine Schipper first moved to the southwest more than 25 years ago, her attention was on the land. She was in the process of finishing her doctoral dissertation, focused on and the culture and politics of land use.
But Schipper, who is now a professor of sociology at Northern Arizona University, gradually began to see that land use was, in her words, “intricately interwoven� with the way our culture uses and thinks about water.
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