Water societies and technologies from the past and present /
Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focusing on Asia, Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present seeks to highlight the issues that emerge or re-emerge across diffe...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary research into water management and societies; Part I: Modelling long-term change; 2. Holocene evolution of rivers, climate and human societies in the Indus basin; 3. Habitat hysteresis in ancient Egypt; 4. Geoarchaeology of prehistoric moated sites and water management in the Middle River Yangtze, China
- 5. Rice fields, water management and agricultural development in the prehistoric Lake Taihu region and the Ningshao PlainPart II: Technologies across time and space; 6. Recognition criteria for canals and rivers in the Mesopotamian floodplain; 7. The Udhruh region: A green desert in the hinterland of ancient Petra; 8. Flowing into the city: Approaches to water management in the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala, Turkmenistan; 9. Water management across time: Dealing with too much or too little water in ancient Mesopotamia
- 10. Framing urban water sustainability: Analysing infrastructure controversies in LondonPart III: Water and societies; 11. Early Indian Buddhism, water and rice: Collective responses to socio-ecological stress: Relevance for global environmental discourse and Anthropocene studies; 12. Water for the state or water for the people? Wittfogel in South and South East Asia in the first millennium; 13. Agricultural development, irrigation management and social resilience in ancient Korea; 14. Quoting Gandhi, or how to study ancient irrigation when the future depended on what one did today; Index
