Water and society from ancient times to the present resilience, decline and revival / edited by Federica Sulas and Innocent Pikirayi.

Other author Sulas, Federica.
Other author Pikirayi, Innocent.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Descriptionxviii, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Contents Sustaining freshwater security and community wealth: Diversity and change in the pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands / Christian Isendahl, Lisa J. Lucero and Scott Heckbert -- Archaeological identification of human sensitivity to drought / Scott E. Ingram -- Water and risks in marginal landscapes of Anatolia / B©ơlent Arikan -- Water management and irrigation systems in the medieval Mediterranean / Jos©♭ Ma Mart©Ưn Civantos -- The tale the river tells: Floodplains, climate change, and archaeology in West Africa / Peter R. Coutros -- Water and large-scale societies in Southern Zambezia, 900-1900 CE / Innocent Pikirayi -- Traditions of water in the Northern Horn of Africa / Federica Sulas -- Managing water and land at the Amazon River estuary: From pre-Columbian times to the present / Denise Pahl Schaan and Eliana Teles Rodrigues -- Ancient water management in southern Arabia: Creativity, resilience and sustainability in Yemen and Oman / Michael J. Harrower and Smiti Nathan -- Qan♯ts of Iran: Sustainable water supply systems / Ali Asghar Semsar Yazdi and Majid Labbaf Khaneiki -- Angkor, food production, water management and climate change: The trajectory of urbanism in SE Asia to the mid-second millennium CE / Roland Fletcher -- Hydraulic complexities: Collapse and resilience in Sri Lanka / Keir M. Strickland, Robin Coningham, Prishanta Gunawardhana and Ian Simpson -- Historic water systems in India: Relevance for sustainable development of significant cultural landscapes / Anuradha Chaturvedi -- Historic water systems, urban growth, and resilience in American cities / Martin V. Melosi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018006717
ISBN9781138676336 (hardback : alk. paper)