Water In The Making Of A Socio Natural Landscape

Author : Salvatore Valenti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000721027

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Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape by Salvatore Valenti Pdf

How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges local water management with national water policies aimed at promoting irrigated agriculture, industrial processes, and public health. It investigates perceptions and conceptualisations of water, changes in the water law, engineering projects, medical knowledge and practices, value of water in different productions, and needs and uses of local stakeholders. From which derives that water infrastructures are the complex outcome of the clash between different users and uses of water as well as the dynamic interaction between different levels of power. In this book, it builds upon Maria Kaika’s Cities of flows and Erik Swyngedouw’s Liquid power to introduce a new dimension to the analysis of urban water: the interaction among the three main uses of water: drinking, agriculture, and industry. Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape is written for a specialist readership with an interest in environmental and urban history and science and technology studies, but it can also be used by graduate and PhD students.

Author : Christian Constanda,Salvatore Valenti
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Water and civilization
ISBN : 1032184191

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Water in the Making of a Socio-natural Landscape by Christian Constanda,Salvatore Valenti Pdf

"How would the history of an urban area look if water were at the center of analysis? Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape explores the transition from early modern to modern water management in late nineteenth-century Rome. It merges local water management with national water policies aimed at promoting irrigated agriculture, industrial processes, and public health. It investigates perceptions and conceptualisations of water, changes in the water law, engineering projects, medical knowledge and practices, value of water in different productions, and needs and uses of local stakeholders. From which derives that water infrastructures are the complex outcome of the clash between different users and uses of water as well as the dynamic interaction between different levels of power. In this book, it builds upon Maria Kaika's Cities of flows and Erik Swyngedouw's Liquid power to introduce a new dimension to the analysis of urban water: the interaction among the three main uses of water: drinking, agriculture, and industry. Water in the Making of a Socio-Natural Landscape is written for a specialist readership with an interest in environmental and urban history and science and technology studies, but it can also be used by graduate and PhD students"--

Author : Salvatore Ciriacono
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845450656

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Building on Water by Salvatore Ciriacono Pdf

A fundamental natural resource, water and its use not only reflect "modes of production" but also that complex interplay between resources and their exploitation (and domination) by various social agents, who in their turn are inevitably influenced by the abundance or rarity of water supplies. Focusing on scientific, social and economic issues from the 16th to the 19th century, the author, one of Italy's leading historians in this field, looks at the innumerable conflicts that arose over water resources and the environmental impact of projects intended to control them. Venice and Holland are undoubtedly the two most fascinating cases of societies "built on water," with the conquest of vast expanses of marshland - either inland or on the coast (the Dutch polders or the Venetian lagoon) – not only stimulating agricultural production, but also nurturing a deeply-felt relationship between the local populations and the element of water itself. The author rounds off his study by looking at the influence the hydraulic technology developed in Holland would have on many European countries (France, England and Germany in particular) and at questions raised by contemporaries about the environmental impact of agricultural progress and its effects upon the social-economic equilibria within the communities concerned.

Author : Judith M. van Dijk
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9789059722422

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Water and Environment in Decision-making by Judith M. van Dijk Pdf

Author : Xiaoling Lei,Bo Lu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000316629

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Integrated Water Environment Treatment by Xiaoling Lei,Bo Lu Pdf

With the rapid development of Chinese urbanization in the 21st century, "urban diseases" become more serious, mainly manifested in water environmental pollution, urban flooding, water shortage, and deterioration of water ecology. It is necessary to establish a modern rainwater management system, scientifically solve the problem of excess urban rainwater and to improve water environment quality. Improvement of water environment quality is conducive to the ecological function of a sponge city. Sponge city construction has contributed to control non-point source pollution. Sponge systems cause the stagnation and purification of rainwater runoff, which is an important guarantee for water environment quality. This monograph summarizes theories and practices of the integrated water environment treatment in Chongqing, a typical representative mountainous city in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region. Based on the mountainous terrain and unique water environment characteristics in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region, the monograph analyzes measures and difficulties in the basin water environment integrated treatment. Moreover, the monograph makes suggestions for risk management amid drainage systems during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Author : Ian G Heggied
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349021512

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The Management of Water Quality and the Environment by Ian G Heggied Pdf

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319947129

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Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water by Úrsula Oswald Spring Pdf

This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different parts of the world during 50 years of contributing to an interdisciplinary scientific debate and addressing social answers to urgent global problems. After the author's biography and bibliography, the second part analyses the development processes of several countries in the South that resulted in a dynamic of underdevelopment. The deep-rooted gender discrimination is also reflected in the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water and air. Since the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, the management of human society and global resources has been unsustainable and has created global environmental change and multiple conflicts over scarce and polluted resources. Peace and development policies aiming at gender equity and sustainable environmental management, where water and food are crucial for the survival of humankind, focus on systemic alternatives embedded in a path of sustainability transition. • This book reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender, development and environment aiming at a world with equity, sustainability, peace and harmony between nature and humans.• This pioneer volume analyses social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico, by addressing the development of under-development, global environmental change, poverty, nutrition and the North-South gap.• This volume focuses on environmental deterioration with a special emphasis on food and water and proposes systemic changes towards a sustainability transition with peace, regional development and gender equity.• This pioneering work offers alternative approaches to regional development, food sovereignty and holistic development processes from a gender perspective.

Author : Ravi Baghel,Lea Stepan,Joseph K.W. Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134863334

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Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia by Ravi Baghel,Lea Stepan,Joseph K.W. Hill Pdf

The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in this regard. The starting point of this book is that these changes should not be seen as the result of monolithic actions of an undifferentiated humanity, but as emerging from diverse ways of relating to water in a variety of settings and knowledge systems. With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another. While it is difficult to carry out comprehensive research on water knowledge in Asia due to its linguistic, political and cultural fragmentation, the topic nevertheless has relevance across boundaries. By using a carefully chosen selection of case studies in a variety of locations and across diverse disciplines, the book demonstrates commonalities and differences in everyday water practices around Asia while challenging both romantic presumptions and Eurocentrism. Examples presented include class differences in water use in the megacity of Delhi, India; the impact of radiation on water practices in Fukushima, Japan; the role of the King in hydraulic practices in Thailand, and ritual irrigation in Bali, Indonesia.

Author : Antonio A.R Ioris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319322551

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Agriculture, Environment and Development by Antonio A.R Ioris Pdf

This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes and the impacts of global agri-food chains. The various chapters include conceptual and empirical material from research carried out in Brazil, India and Europe. The assessment takes into account the dilemmas faced by farmers, companies, policy-makers and the international community related to growing food demand, water scarcity and environmental degradation. The book also questions most government reactions to those problems that tend to reproduce old, productivist approaches and are normally under the powerful influence of global corporations, mega-supermarkets and investment funds. Its overall message is that the trajectory of agriculture, rural development and environmental management are integral elements of the broader search for justice and novel socio-ecological thinking.

Author : Maria Concepcion Donoso
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848261969

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Water Interactions with Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture - Volume II by Maria Concepcion Donoso Pdf

Water Interactions with Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture is a component of Encyclopedia of Water Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The theme discusses water's importance to energy generation, the environment, food, and agriculture. It begins with an analysis of the interrelations between water and the environment. Consideration is given to the relationship between water and human health. Water's dynamic role in the food production process; Ecosystem Character; Water Quality and Environment; Climate Change and Water Resources; Water Resources For Agricultural and Food Production; Water Balance in Agriculture Areas; Water Contamination from Rural Production Systems; Water Interactions with Human Development ;Economic Development; and Cultural Development are considered. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, Managers, and Decision makers and NGOs

Author : Avril Horne,Angus Webb,Michael Stewardson,Brian Richter,Mike Acreman
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780128039458

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Water for the Environment by Avril Horne,Angus Webb,Michael Stewardson,Brian Richter,Mike Acreman Pdf

Water for the Environment: From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management provides a holistic view of environmental water management, offering clear links across disciplines that allow water managers to face mounting challenges. The book highlights current challenges and potential solutions, helping define the future direction for environmental water management. In addition, it includes a significant review of current literature and state of knowledge, providing a one-stop resource for environmental water managers. Presents a multidisciplinary approach that allows water managers to make connections across related disciplines, such as hydrology, ecology, law, and economics Links science to practice for environmental flow researchers and those that implement and manage environmental water on a daily basis Includes case studies to demonstrate key points and address implementation issues

Author : Nancy Langston
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780295989839

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Where Land and Water Meet by Nancy Langston Pdf

Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results. The Malheur Basin, once home to the largest cattle empires in the world, experienced unintended widespread environmental degradation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After establishment in 1908 of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as a protected breeding ground for migratory birds, and its expansion in the 1930s and 1940s, the area experienced equally extreme intended modifications aimed at restoring riparian habitat. Refuge managers ditched wetlands, channelized rivers, applied Agent Orange and rotenone to waterways, killed beaver, and cut down willows. Where Land and Water Meet examines the reasoning behind and effects of these interventions, gleaning lessons from their successes and failures. Although remote and specific, the Malheur Basin has myriad ecological and political connections to much larger places. This detailed look at one tangled history of riparian restoration shows how—through appreciation of the complexity of environmental and social influences on land use, and through effective handling of conflict—people can learn to practice a style of pragmatic adaptive resource management that avoids rigid adherence to single agendas and fosters improved relationships with the land.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UCR:31210018651545

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Institutional Response to a Changing Water Policy Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond L Bryant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857936172

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The International Handbook of Political Ecology by Raymond L Bryant Pdf

The International Handbook of Political Ecology features chapters by leading scholars from around the world in a unique collection exploring the multi-disciplinary field of political ecology. This landmark volume canvasses key developments, topics, iss

Author : Sood, Aditya,Nicol, Alan,Arulingam, Indika
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789290908838

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Unpacking the water-energy-environment-food nexus: working across systems by Sood, Aditya,Nicol, Alan,Arulingam, Indika Pdf