A 2006 book about Governing this resource features a chapter contrasting the “Invisible Hand” with a “Visible Fist” and is by Ken Conca. The Three Ages of this resource title a 2023 book by Peter Gleick. Christina Cook and Karen Bakker debated the aptness of a “security” paradigm named for this resource. Goal 6 of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals explicitly mentions this resource, which is the subject of the U.S.’s “prior appropriation doctrine.” In January 2022, Chilean legislators reformed a Pinochet-era code concerning private rights to this resource. IR theorist John Mearsheimer discussed the “stopping power of” this material, which can be governed by riparian rights. For 10 points, a paradox debuted by Adam Smith concerns the relative prices of diamonds and what resource, which is often fought over in arid regions? ■END■
ANSWER: water [accept Governing Water; accept The Three Ages of Water; accept water security; accept water refugees; accept Water Code of 1981; accept “stopping power of water”; accept agua; accept hydropolitics; accept answers indicating fresh or clean water; prompt on rivers or streams or seas or oceans by asking, “Can you be less specific?”]
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