Zhuang, Y and Altaweel, M (Eds).
(2018)
Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present |
| ISBN-13: | 978191157693 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.978191157693 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.978191157693 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Contributors, 2018 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2018 This book is published under a Creative Common 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Yijie Zhuang and Mark Altaweel (eds), Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present. London, UCL Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.978191157693 Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | water, technology, archaeology, water use, water sustainability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061442 |
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