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A History of Water series explores all aspects of water – social, cultural, political, religious, historical, economic and technological - from ancient times to the present day. The contributors examine the changing histories of water as a private or common good; the politics of water at local, urban, national and international level; water in cities; great river plans; dams; river biographies; and images of water in religion, myth, literature and art. Empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world feature.
VOLUME I: Water Control and River Biographies
This book with narratives of water control from all over the world can give a vivid sense of a human past that in certain aspects can be seen as fundamentally shared. While there may be nothing that appropriately can be called universal values, water control is definitely a universal predicament. Water control in one form or another is one thing which all people at all times have had and will always have in common, and they will forever have to adapt to, and to control, the water that runs through their societies.
Contents: Part I: Great Plans • Seizing Favours from Nature: The Rise and Fall of Siberian River Diversion • The World’s Largest Contiguous Irrigation System: Developments, Successes and Challenges of the Indus Irrigation System in Pakistan • Of Flumes, Modules and Barrels: The Failure of Irrigation Institutions and Technologies to Achieve Equitable Water Control in the Indus Basin • Controlling the Waters in Twentieth-century China: The Nationalist State and the Huai River • The Chinese Way of Harnessing Rivers: The Yangtze River • Water Control and Agricultural Development: Crafting Deltaic Environments in South-East Asia • Environmental Risk in Water Resources Management in the Mekong Delta: A Multi-Scale Analysis • Living with Water: Bangladesh Since Ancient Times • Part II: River Biographies • The History of the Tama River: Social Reconstructions • ‘Seeing Like the Prussian State’: Re-engineering the Rivers of Rhineland and Westphalia • The River has Recorded the Story, Living with the Hawkesbury River, Sydney, NSW, Australia • Poverty, Water and Environmental Degradation: The Langat River Basin, Malaysia • Part III: Water in Cities • Water and Wastes in Medieval London • Critical Decisions in Pittsburgh Water and Wastewater Treatment • Water, Modernity and the Demise of the Bacteriological City • Socio-Economic Implications of Water Supply in Nigerian Urban Centres: The Case of Ibadan • The Political Ecology of Water Supply in Chennai, South India • Part IV: Organizing Water • Keeping Running Water Clean: Mining and Pollution in Preindustrial Japan • Management of Wetlands in Relation to River Basins – a Study from South-West India • Public Water Supply in Guernsey, Channel Islands: Engineers, Entrepreneurs, Ownership and Control in an Island Setting • The Mfongo Irrigation Systems on the Slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania • Alkalinity, Salinity and California Irrigation: The Role of Eugene Woldemar Hilgard • Part V: Debating Water • The Rescue of English Coastal Waters and the Role of Environmental Pressure Groups • Management of the Mekong River Basin: Contesting its Sustainability from a Communication Perspective • The Bío–Bío Project and the Mapuche-Pehuenche People of Chile.ISBN - 9788130924007
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Pages : 992
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