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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| description | 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 different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporating cutting-edge research and pioneering field surveys on past and present water management practices, the interdisciplinary contributors together identify how societies managed water resource challenges and utilised water in ways that allowed them to evolve, persist, or drastically alter their environment.
The case studies, from different periods, ancient and modern, and from different regions, including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Southwest United States, the Indus Basin, the Yangtze River, the Mesopotamian floodplain, the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala in Turkmenistan, and ancient Korea, offer crucial empirical data to readers interested in comparing the dynamics of water management practices across time and space, and to those who wish to understand water-related issues through conceptual and quantitative models of water use. The case studies also challenge classical theories on water management and social evolution, examine and establish the deep historical roots and ecological foundations of water sustainability issues, and contribute new grounds for innovations in sustainable urban planning and ecological resilience. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-303142025-07-30T10:20:50Z Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present Altaweel, Mark Zhuang, Yijie water technology archaeology water use water sustainability thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology 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 different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporating cutting-edge research and pioneering field surveys on past and present water management practices, the interdisciplinary contributors together identify how societies managed water resource challenges and utilised water in ways that allowed them to evolve, persist, or drastically alter their environment. The case studies, from different periods, ancient and modern, and from different regions, including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Southwest United States, the Indus Basin, the Yangtze River, the Mesopotamian floodplain, the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala in Turkmenistan, and ancient Korea, offer crucial empirical data to readers interested in comparing the dynamics of water management practices across time and space, and to those who wish to understand water-related issues through conceptual and quantitative models of water use. The case studies also challenge classical theories on water management and social evolution, examine and establish the deep historical roots and ecological foundations of water sustainability issues, and contribute new grounds for innovations in sustainable urban planning and ecological resilience. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-11-01 23:55:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T11:55:30Z 2018 book 1002501 OCN: 1076883459 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27506 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30314 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/27506/1/Water-Societies-and-Technologies-from-the-Past-and-Present.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/27506/1/Water-Societies-and-Technologies-from-the-Past-and-Present.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/27506/1/Water-Societies-and-Technologies-from-the-Past-and-Present.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/27506/1/Water-Societies-and-Technologies-from-the-Past-and-Present.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.978191157693 10.14324/111.978191157693 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 332 open access |
| spellingShingle | water technology archaeology water use water sustainability thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| title | Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| title_full | Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| title_fullStr | Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| title_short | Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| title_sort | water societies and technologies from the past and present |
| topic | water technology archaeology water use water sustainability thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology |
| topic_facet | water technology archaeology water use water sustainability thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKP Environmental archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKT Industrial archaeology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology |
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