Water In A Dry Land

Author : Margaret Somerville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135098780

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Water in a Dry Land by Margaret Somerville Pdf

Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world’s driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography Series website, http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.

Author : Emily O'Gorman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295749044

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Wetlands in a Dry Land by Emily O'Gorman Pdf

In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O’Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin—a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas—as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O’Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.

Author : Margaret Somerville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780415503969

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Water in a Dry Land by Margaret Somerville Pdf

Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world's driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography Series website, http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.

Author : John Opie,Char Miller,Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496207265

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Ogallala by John Opie,Char Miller,Kenna Lang Archer Pdf

The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land is an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Great Plains' natural resources, the history of settlement and dryland farming, and the remarkable irrigation technologies that have industrialized farming in the region. This newly updated third edition discusses three main issues: long-term drought and its implications, the efforts of several key groundwater management districts to regulate the aquifer, and T. Boone Pickens's failed effort to capture water from the aquifer to supply major Texas urban areas. This edition also describes the fierce independence of Texas ranchers and farmers who reject any governmental or bureaucratic intervention in their use of water, and it updates information about the impact of climate change on the aquifer and agriculture. Read Char Miller's article on theconversation.com to learn more about the Ogallala Aquifer.

Author : Will Critchley
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780855981709

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Looking After Our Land by Will Critchley Pdf

This book is about the main lessons to be learnt from new approaches to soil and water conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. It presents six case studies, two each from Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mali, where soil and water conservation, based on the participation of the local people, has resulted in some success.

Author : Trevor Herriot
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551994390

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River in a Dry Land by Trevor Herriot Pdf

Trevor Herriot’s memoir and history of the Qu’Appelle River Valley has won the CBA Libris Award for First-Time Author, the Writers’ Trust Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the Regina Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction.

Author : David A. Bainbridge
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610910826

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A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration by David A. Bainbridge Pdf

Dryland degradation and desertification now affect almost a billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lost to desertification each year because people remain unaware of strategies and techniques that could improve yields, reduce risk, and begin healing the world's deserts. A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration is the first book to offer practical, field-tested solutions to this critical problem. Author David Bainbridge has spent more than 25 years actively involved in restoring lands across the American Southwest. A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration presents the results of his years of fieldwork, as well as research and experience from scientists and practitioners around the globe. The book discusses the ecology of desert plants, explores the causes of desertification and land abuse, and outlines the processes and procedures needed to evaluate, plan, implement, and monitor desert restoration projects. It sets forth economical and practical field-tested solutions for understanding site characteristics, selecting and growing plants, and ensuring that they survive with a minimal amount of water and care. Each chapter represents a guide to a critical topic for environmental restoration; extensive photographs, diagrams and drawings give detailed information for immediate application, and additional resources are included in appendixes. A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration is the first comprehensive book focused on restoring arid regions, and clearly demonstrates that arid lands can be successfully rehabilitated. In addition to restorationists, the book will be an invaluable resource for anyone working in arid lands, including farmers, ranchers, gardeners, landscapers, outdoor recreation professionals, and activists.

Author : Vera S. Candiani
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804791076

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Dreaming of Dry Land by Vera S. Candiani Pdf

Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of technicians, thousands of indigenous workers, and millions of pesos were marshaled to realize a complex system of canals, tunnels, dams, floodgates, and reservoirs. Vera S. Candiani's Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narrative that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, biota, humans, and the relationship among them, to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Connecting multiple historiographical traditions—history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history—Candiani proposes that colonization was a class, not an ethnic or nation-based phenomenon, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined.

Author : Nancy F. Castaldo
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781643752273

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When the World Runs Dry by Nancy F. Castaldo Pdf

What would you do if you turned on the faucet one day and nothing happened? What if you learned the water in your home was harmful to drink? Water is essential for life on this planet, but not every community has the safe, clean water it needs. In When the World Runs Dry, award-winning science writer Nancy Castaldo takes readers from Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, to Iran and Cape Town, South Africa, to explore the various ways in which water around the world is in danger, why we must act now, and why you’re never too young to make a difference. Topics include: Lead and water infrastructure problems, pollution, fracking contamination, harmful algal blooms, water supply issues, rising sea levels, and potential solutions.

Author : Oscar Roland Mathews,Bertie Frank Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Dry farming
ISBN : UIUC:30112019272993

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Dry Land Crops at the Dalhart (Texas) Field Station by Oscar Roland Mathews,Bertie Frank Barnes Pdf

Author : J. Gerald Janzen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780802848291

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At the Scent of Water by J. Gerald Janzen Pdf

"On the basis of a study of "east wind" in the Bible -- "whirlwind" in Job -- Janzen proposes that the prominence God gives to rain in Job 38, with its renewal of the parched earth and the ensuing vigor of all forms of life, signals God's response to Job's thirst, heals Job's bitterness, and restores him to a life at the end of which he dies contented. Janzen demonstrates how life-crippling bitterness is transcended and hope in life's worthwhileness is restored in the face of grievous evil. The resolution of the Joban question lies not in a vindication of divine justice but, rather, in God's renewal of Job's appetite for life. Janzen underscores this interpretation with a candid epilogue on his own struggle with aggressive prostate cancer, which enabled him to connect personally with Job's story and to find a fresh and illuminating grace."--From publisher description.

Author : Bettina Selby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1335739476

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Like Water in a Dry Land by Bettina Selby Pdf

Author : Muhammad Farooq,Kadambot H.M. Siddique
Publisher : Springer
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319479286

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Innovations in Dryland Agriculture by Muhammad Farooq,Kadambot H.M. Siddique Pdf

This book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It covers the basic concepts and history, components and elements, breeding and modelling efforts, and potential benefits, experiences, challenges and innovations relevant to agriculture in dryland areas around world.

Author : John Beardsley Sieglinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1722 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Broomcorn
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019613541

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Broomcorn Experiments at the United States Dry-land Field Station, Woodward, Okla by John Beardsley Sieglinger Pdf

Author : Thomas Henry Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107246977

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Dry-land Olive Culture in Northern Africa by Thomas Henry Kearney Pdf