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Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka.
Author : Jonathan B. Mabry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780816515929
Includes material on irrigation in Mexico, Somalia, Morocco, the Andes, Bali, Cape Verde, Iran, and Sri Lanka.
Author : Allen Lester Messenger
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Canals
ISBN :
Author : Julia Marusza
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791448137
A poignant study of how a group of poor white urban youth find respite from poverty, violence, and racism in a local community center.
Author : John N. Jackson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802009333
An examination of the role and contributions of the four Welland Canals to the development of Niagara Peninsula communities.
Author : John Jackson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1997-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487523596
An examination of the role and contributions of the four Welland Canals to the development of Niagara Peninsula communities.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Canals
ISBN :
For purpose of registration and information about the conference.
Author : Charles Clifford Huntington
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Canals
ISBN :
Author : Ashley Carse
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262537419
A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, he explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. Carse draws on a wide range of ethnographic and archival material to show the social and ecological implications of transportation across Panama. The Canal moves ships over an aquatic staircase of locks that demand an enormous amount of fresh water from the surrounding region. Each passing ship drains 52 million gallons out to sea—a volume comparable to the daily water use of half a million Panamanians. Infrastructures like the Panama Canal, Carse argues, do not simply conquer nature; they rework ecologies in ways that serve specific political and economic priorities. Interweaving histories that range from the depopulation of the U.S. Canal Zone a century ago to road construction conflicts and water hyacinth invasions in canal waters, the book illuminates the human and nonhuman actors that have come together at the margins of the famous trade route. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal. Beyond the Big Ditch calls us to consider how infrastructures are materially embedded in place, producing environments with winners and losers.
Author : Robert G. Shibley
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849506981
Water is the key to human civilization. Most of the ancient civilization had its roots to river basins, where people-water interaction was the key aspect. This book offers analytical case studies on different aspects of water communities, which is defined as the human-water interaction process.