Water societies and technologies from the past and present. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mark Altaweel, Yijie Zhuang.
• Editors: Altaweel, Mark; Zhuang, Yijie
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Interdisciplinary research into watermanagement and societies; Yijie Zhuang and Mark Altaweel ; ; Part I: Modelling long-term change 2. Holocene evolution of rivers, climate and human societiesin the Indus basin; Peter D. Clift and Liviu Giosan ; 3. Habitat hysteresis in ancient Egypt; Judith Bunbury ; 4. Geoarchaeology of prehistoric moated sites and watermanagement in the Middle River Yangtze, China; Duowen Mo and Yijie Zhuang ; 5. Rice fields, water management and agricultural developmentin the prehistoric Lake Taihu region and the Ningshao Plain; Yijie Zhuang ; ; Part II: Technologies across time and space ; 6. Recognition criteria for canals and rivers in theMesopotamian floodplain; Jaafar Jotheri ; 7. The Udhruh region: A green desert in the hinterlandof ancient Petra; Mark Driessen and Fawzi Abudanah ; 8. Flowing into the city: Approaches to water managementin the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala, Turkmenistan; Tim Williams ; 9. Water management across time: Dealing with too muchor too little water in ancient Mesopotamia; Mark Altaweel ; 10. Framing urban water sustainability: Analysinginfrastructure controversies in London; Sarah Bell ; ; Part III: Water and societies ; 11. Early Indian Buddhism, water and rice: Collectiveresponses to socio-ecological stress: Relevance for globalenvironmental discourse and Anthropocene studies; Julia Shaw ; 12. Water for the state or water for the people? Wittfogel inSouth and South East Asia in the first millennium; Janice Stargardt ; 13. Agricultural development, irrigation management andsocial resilience in ancient Korea; Heejin Lee ; 14. Quoting Gandhi, or how to study ancient irrigation whenthe future depended on what one did today Maurits W. Ertsen ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 333.911; Water resources development; Water-supply -- Management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781911576723; 9781911576730
• Related ISBNs: 9781911576716; 9781911576709
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