Hydraulic City

Author : Nikhil Anand
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373599

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Hydraulic City by Nikhil Anand Pdf

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. It provides residents an important access point through which they can make demands on the state for other public services such as sanitation and education. Tying the ways Mumbai's poorer residents are seen by the state to their historic, political, and material relations with water pipes, the book highlights the critical role infrastructures play in consolidating civic and social belonging in the city.

Author : Austin Zeiderman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374183

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Endangered City by Austin Zeiderman Pdf

Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Bogotá, Colombia, he examines how state actors work to protect the lives of poor and vulnerable citizens from a range of threats, including environmental hazards and urban violence. By following both the governmental agencies charged with this mandate and the subjects governed by it, Endangered City reveals what happens when logics of endangerment shape the terrain of political engagement between citizens and the state. The self-built settlements of Bogotá’s urban periphery prove a critical site from which to examine the rising effect of security and risk on contemporary cities and urban life.

Author : Nikhil Anand,Akhil Gupta,Hannah Appel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478002031

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The Promise of Infrastructure by Nikhil Anand,Akhil Gupta,Hannah Appel Pdf

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. Contributors Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler

Author : Frank R. Spellman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466514683

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Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing by Frank R. Spellman Pdf

There is a strong need for innovation and the development of viable renewable energy sources. Recent technological advances now allow natural gas supplies—previously believed inaccessible or nonexistent—to be discovered, mined, and processed for both industrial and consumer use. The technology, a controversial process that is alternatively called hydraulic fracturing, fracking, fracing, or hydrofracking, has greatly expanded natural gas production in the United States. Presenting a balanced discussion, Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of hydraulic fracturing used to extract natural gas, along with gas exploration and production in various shale fields. As the use of hydraulic fracturing has grown, concerns about its environmental and public health impacts have also increased—one of the most significant concerns being the fluids that are injected into rock formations to cause the fracturing contain potentially hazardous chemical additives. The book covers all facets of the issue, including ongoing controversies about the environmental and operator safety issues arising from possible water pollution, drinking water contamination, on-the-job safety hazards, and harmful chemical exposure to workers and residents near well areas. The author discusses both the pros and cons of hydraulic fracturing, explaining the process in great detail. He describes the benefits of hydraulic fracturing and its importance in making the United States energy independent by drilling for its own resources, as well as the potential impacts to the surrounding environment. The text also includes suggestions and recommendations on how to mitigate environmental damage. Arguably the first book of its kind, this is the go-to text on the use and impacts of hydraulic fracturing.

Author : Ayda Alehashemi,Jean-François Coulais,Gilles Hubert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2490437038

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Water & City by Ayda Alehashemi,Jean-François Coulais,Gilles Hubert Pdf

Un recueil d'études sur les relations entre l'eau, les infrastructures urbaines et l'architecture. Les contributeurs analysent comment l'essor urbain transforme les techniques traditionnelles d'approvisionnement en eau. En combinant les savoirs anciens à l'innovation, les projets d'aménagement urbain réinventent le rôle central de l'eau dans un contexte de transition écologique. Electre 2020.

Author : Lacy M. Johnson,Cheryl Beckett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781477325674

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More City than Water by Lacy M. Johnson,Cheryl Beckett Pdf

2022 Art in Service to the Environment Award, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter Honorable Mention, 2022 Nonfiction Prize, Writers' League of Texas Writers explore a city’s relationship with chronic catastrophic flooding. Shortly after Hurricane Harvey dumped a record 61 inches of rain on Houston in 2017, celebrated writer and Bayou City resident Lacy M. Johnson began collecting flood stories. Although these stories attested to the infinite variety of experience in America’s most diverse city, they also pointed to a consistent question: What does catastrophic flooding reveal about this city, and what does it obscure? More City than Water brings together essays, conversations, and personal narratives from climate scientists, marine ecologists, housing activists, urban planners, artists, poets, and historians as they reflect on the human geography of a region increasingly defined by flooding. Both a literary and a cartographic anthology, More City than Water features striking maps of Houston’s floodplains, waterways, drainage systems, reservoirs, and inundated neighborhoods. Designed by University of Houston seniors from the Graphic Design program, each map, imaginative and precise, shifts our understanding of the flooding, the public’s relationship to it, and the fraught reality of rebuilding. Evocative and unique, this is an atlas that uncovers the changing nature of living where the waters rise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : PSU:000003429068

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Current Hydraulic Laboratory Research in the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Xixi Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108492478

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Water Resources and Hydraulics by Xixi Wang Pdf

This exciting new textbook introduces the concepts and tools essential for upper-level undergraduate study in water resources and hydraulics. Tailored specifically to fit the length of a typical one-semester course, it will prove a valuable resource to students in civil engineering, water resources engineering, and environmental engineering. It will also serve as a reference textbook for researchers, practicing water engineers, consultants, and managers. The book facilitates students' understanding of both hydrologic analysis and hydraulic design. Example problems are carefully selected and solved clearly in a step-by-step manner, allowing students to follow along and gain mastery of relevant principles and concepts. These examples are comparable in terms of difficulty level and content with the end-of-chapter student exercises, so students will become well equipped to handle relevant problems on their own. Physical phenomena are visualized in engaging photos, annotated equations, graphical illustrations, flowcharts, videos, and tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015086578716

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Hydraulic Research in the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU07750161

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Hydraulic Research in the United States by United States. National Bureau of Standards Pdf

Author : Lisa Björkman
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0822359693

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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters by Lisa Björkman Pdf

Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has wreaked havoc on the city’s water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activity—of business, brokerage, secondary markets, and sociopolitical networks—whose workings are reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai’s increasingly illegible and volatile hydrologies, Björkman argues, are lending infrastructures increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowledge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai in the image of Shanghai or Singapore and gesture instead toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities of the actually existing city.

Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : MINN:30000010242802

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Hydraulic Research in the United States 1959 by United States. National Bureau of Standards Pdf

Author : Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030231200

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Political Epistemology by Pietro Daniel Omodeo Pdf

This book is an investigation of the ideological dimensions of the disciplinary discourses on science in line with the scholarly tradition of historical epistemology. It offers a programmatic treatment of the political-epistemological problematic along three entangled lines of inquiry: socio-historical, epistemological and historiographical. The book aims for a meta-level integration of the existing scholarship on the social and cultural history of science in order to consider the ways in which struggles for hegemony have constantly informed scientific discourses. This problematic is of primary relevance for scholars in Science Studies, philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, but would also be relevant for anybody interested in scientific culture and political theory.

Author : Esha Shah,Rutgerd Boelens,Bert Bruins
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783038978107

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Contested Knowledges by Esha Shah,Rutgerd Boelens,Bert Bruins Pdf

Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts.

Author : Daniel J. Soeder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030591212

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Fracking and the Environment by Daniel J. Soeder Pdf

This book provides a systematic scientific approach to the understanding of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a hydrocarbon extraction technology and its impact on the environment. The book addresses research from the past decade to assess how fracking can affect air, water, landscapes and ecosystems, and presents the subject in the context of the history of fracking and shale gas development in the United States, describing what is known and not known about environmental impacts, and the broader implications of fossil energy use, climate change, and technology development. In 9 chapters, the author lays out how and why hydraulic fracturing was developed, what driving forces existed at the beginning of the so-called "shale revolution", how success was achieved, and when and why public acceptance of the technology changed. The intended audience is scientific people who are concerned about fracking, but perhaps do not know all that much about it. It is also intended for lay people who would be interested in understanding the technical details of the process and what effects it might or might not be having on the environment. The book is written at a level that is both understandable and technically correct. A further goal is to give some useful insights even to experienced petroleum geologists and engineers who have been doing fracking for many years.