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Record Nr.

UNISA996333145503316

Autore

Meybeck Michel

Titolo

Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-520-96793-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

551.48/3

Soggetti

Human ecology

Rivers - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth



and Jeffrey Benjamin.

Sommario/riassunto

"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines--from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy--this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.