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David A. Pietz
Flowing through the North China Plain, one of China’s major agricultural regions, the Yellow River has long represented a challenge to Chinese governments to manage. Preventing floods has been an overriding concern for these states in order to main
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::49a198637252d1c5baadd88b08b5e93c
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.163
https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.163
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
The chapter on water and globalization overlaps earlier chapters, particularly water and equity and water and security. With a robust global market, water, like so many other resources, has been commodified; even to the point where it is traded on th
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_8
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_8
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
The last chapter of the book examines the contemporary issues of sustainability, both resource sustainability, in which water place a central role, and the sustainability of communities and their social relationship, that, again, depend on access to
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_9
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_9
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
The health of human communities has been, and continues to be, intimately connected to sources of clear water and effective systems of sanitation. This chapter explores several key developments in the history of clean water supply and the control of
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_4
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_4
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
This chapter considers the early riverine civilizations of Egypt and India and their dependence and spiritual regard for the Nile and Ganges Rivers, respectively. In both civilizations, the rivers were central to everyday life, informing culture as d
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_1
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_1
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
This chapter explores how water has been put to use to serve communities. Among the myriad uses that water has served, irrigation was certainly one of the earliest and most important, particularly to communities in arid regions. Indeed, the long-term
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_3
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_3
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
Not easily defined, landscapes have a cultural orientation reflecting the diversity of users who inhabit them. For waterscapes, such as swamps, in the colonial and Early Republic periods of the United States, swamps were perceived initially as hostil
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0c9b52551017b57d543e47d753c65e33
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_2
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_2
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
In 2010, the UN recognized the right to clean water for drinking and sanitation as a human right. Yet, water injustices persist. Climate change, depletion of groundwater, and the migration to mega-cities without an adequate infrastructure have contri
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a827fccd0c1342650c44247499ba3426
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_5
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_5
Publikováno v:
Water and Human Societies ISBN: 9783030676940
The connections between a clean and accessible water supply for consumption and sanitation is a relatively new field of research. Prior to this recognition, scholars and policy analysts associated security with the protection of a nation’s borders
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_7
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67692-6_7