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Titolo: |
Water communities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo
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Pubblicazione: | Bingley, U.K., : Emerald Group Pub. Ltd., 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina: | 553.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Water and civilization |
Water - Social aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
ShawRajib
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front cover; Water Communities; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; List of Editors; Brief introduction of the series; Brief introduction of the volume; Preface; Chapter 1. Water communities: Introduction and overview; Chapter 2. Community-based water management practices in Japan; Chapter 3. Bangkok liquid perception: waterscape urbanism in the Chao Phraya river delta and implications to climate change adaptation; Chapter 4. Tripod scheme for flood disaster prevention and technical transfer |
Chapter 5. Amplifying the community voices for greater access to drinking water in BangladeshChapter 6. Building civil organization networks in Shingashi river basin toward sustainable water environment; Chapter 7. Progress of research on cascade irrigation systems in the dry zones of Sri Lanka; Chapter 8. Pani panchayat: examples of water governance and community participation in India; Chapter 9. Urbanization does not always make progress: Experiences of Horikawa River in Nagoya; Chapter 10. Water management systems of China: Water cellar for community | |
Chapter 11. From the water community to policy perspectives of sustainable eco-development in Kampong Bahru, MalaysiaChapter 12. Indigenous and scientific water management: Fusing research on urban headwater transformations in Northern Thailand and Metropolitan Baltimore; Chapter 13. The water community case of Chou-Shui River in Taiwan; Chapter 14. Essentials of water communities and its future perspective | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. Due to innovations of knowledge and technology and modernization of lifestyles, the human-water direct contact has become less significant. People have become more dependent to the system, and consequently, the closeness to water is gradually diminishing. It is however, a challenge on how to learn from the basic principles of water human interaction and apply those lessons to the current context of urban and rural settings. This book wi |
Titolo autorizzato: | Water communities ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-66151-5 |
9786612661518 | |
1-84950-699-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459448003321 |
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