Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival

ISBN-13: 9781138676336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 402 str.

Innocent Pikirayi; Federica Sulas

Opis

Water and Society, through a range of international case studies, presents theoretical discussions on the historical relationships between water and societies. It emphasises the use of historical and archaeological methods to define the nature and sustainability of water-uses and human responses to changing water conditions. Exploring historical knowledge to provide information on present challenges, it highlights the array of solutions and mechanisms societies have developed to deal with water in all its forms. The volume complements and expands a growing body of studies that discuss how ancient water systems can relate to resilience and sustainability in the present and inform the future.

Spis treści

Introduction Water and society by the editors; Chapter 1 Sustaining freshwater security and community wealth: Diversity and change in the pre-Columbian Maya Lowlands; Chapter 2 Archaeological identification of human sensitivity to drought; Chapter 3 Water and Risks in Marginal Landscapes of Anatolia; Chapter 4 Water management and irrigation systems in Medieval Mediterranean; Chapter 5 The tale the river tells: Floodplains, climate change, and archaeology in West Africa; Chapter 6 Water and large-scale societies in southern Zambezia, 900‒1900 AD; Chapter 7 Traditions of water in the highlands of the northern Horn of Africa; Chapter 8 Managing water and land at the Amazon River estuary: From Precolumbian times to the present; Chapter 9 Ancient water management in Southern Arabia: Creativity, resilience, and sustainability in Yemen and Oman; Chapter 10 Qanāts of Iran: Sustainable water supply system; Chapter 11 Angkor, food production, water management and climate change: The trajectory of urbanism in SE Asia to the mid-2^nd millennium AD; Chapter 12 Hydraulic Complexities: Collapse and Resilience in Sri Lanka; Chapter 13 Historic water systems in India: Relevance for sustainable development of significant cultural landscapes; Chapter 14 Historic Water Systems, Urban Growth, and Resilience in American Cities; Concluding essay 1 Resource gain and complexity: Water past and future; Concluding essay 2 Historical water socio-ecological systems - Sustainability, resilience and transformability