Engineering nature [[electronic resource] ] : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / / Jessica B. Teisch |
Autore | Teisch Jessica B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.70973 |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - United States - History
Mining engineering - United States - History Water resources development - History Mining engineering - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4696-0351-9
0-8078-7801-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458561903321 |
Teisch Jessica B | ||
Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Engineering nature [[electronic resource] ] : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / / Jessica B. Teisch |
Autore | Teisch Jessica B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.70973 |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - United States - History
Mining engineering - United States - History Water resources development - History Mining engineering - History |
ISBN |
1-4696-0351-9
0-8078-7801-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791424803321 |
Teisch Jessica B | ||
Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Engineering nature : water, development, & the global spread of American environmental expertise / / Jessica B. Teisch |
Autore | Teisch Jessica B |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.70973 |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - United States - History
Mining engineering - United States - History Water resources development - History Mining engineering - History |
ISBN |
1-4696-0351-9
0-8078-7801-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Lessons of valuable experience : what California learned from India -- A great mission for the race : lessons and experiences from California -- The California model and the Australian awakening -- Home is not so very far away : civilizing the South African frontier -- Nothing but commercial feudalism : California's Hawaiian empire -- Palestine's peculiar social experiments. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825945403321 |
Teisch Jessica B | ||
Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Environmental and water resources [[electronic resource] ] : milestones in engineering history : May 15-19, 2007, Tampa, Florida / / sponsored by EWRI National History & Heritage Committee ; Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Jerry R. Rogers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (166 p.) |
Disciplina | 627.09 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RogersJerry R |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - History
Water-supply - History Environmental protection - History Environmental engineering - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7844-7196-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455277103321 |
Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolution of water supply throughout the millennia / / Andreas N. Angelakis ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : IWA, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
Disciplina | 628.109 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AngelakisAndreas N |
Soggetto topico |
Water-supply - History
Water-supply engineering - History Water use - History Water resources development - History |
ISBN | 1-78040-104-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of authors -- List of reviewers -- Prolegomena: The evolution of water supply throughout the millennia -- ; Chapter 1: Ancient gods and goddesses of water / L. W. Mays and A. N. Angelakis -- ; Chapter 2: Water for human consumption through history / L. W. Mays, M. Sklivaniotis and A. N. Angelakis -- ; Chapter 3: History of water and health / Joanna M. Pope, Mark H. Weir and Joan B. Rosec -- ; Chapter 4: Diachronic evolution of water supply in the Eastern Mediterranean / K. Voudouris -- ; Chapter 5: Water and water supply technologies in ancient Iran / Seyed Ali Mahmoudian and Seyed Navid Mahmoudian -- ; Chapter 6: A historical perspective on the development of water supply in Egypt / F.A. El-Gohary -- ; Chapter 7: The impact of climate changes on the evolution of water supply works in the region of Jerusalem / A. S. Issar and M. Zohar -- ; Chapter 8: History of water supply in pre-modern China / P. Du and A. Koenig -- ; Chapter 9: Evolution of water supply technologies through the centuries in Crete, Greece / A. N. Angelakis, E. G. Dialynas and V. Despotakis -- ; Chapter 10: A brief history of urban water management in ancient Greece / N. Zarkadoulas, D. Koutsoyiannis, N. Mamassis and A. N. Angelakis -- ; Chapter 11: Sustainable water supply in pre-Columbian civilizations in Ancient Peru and South America / A. Reyes-Knoche -- ; Chapter 12: Historical development of water supply in Cyprus / C. A. Kambanellas -- ; Chapter 13: Water supply in the Middle East during Roman and Byzantine periods / Benoît Haut and Didier Viviers -- ; Chapter 14: Water supply management technologies in the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations / G. De Feo, P. Laureano, L. W. Mays and A. N. Angelakis -- ; Chapter 15: Water supply sustainability of ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica and the American south-west / Larry W. Mays -- ; Chapter 16: Water supply of Athens in the antiquity / E. D. Chiotis and L. E. Chioti -- ; Chapter 17: History of the water supply of Rome as a paradigm of water services development in Italy / P. Martini and R. Drusiani -- ; Chapter 18: The historical development of water supply to Iraklion, Crete, Greece from antiquity to the present / A. I. Strataridaki, E. G. Chalkiadakis and N. M. Gigourtakis -- ; Chapter 19: The historical development of water supply technologies in Barcelona, Spain / M. Salgot and A. N. Angelakis -- ; Chapter 20: Water services in Mexico City: The need to return to the IWRM principles of Tenochtitlán (700 years of water history) / B. Jiménez and D. Birrichaga -- ; Chapter 21: The evolution of water supply throughout the millennia: A short overview / Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Nikos Zarkadoulas, Nikos Manassis, Andreas N. Angelakis and Larry W. Mays. |
Altri titoli varianti | Evolution of water supply through the millennia |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910311933803321 |
London ; ; New York, : IWA, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Great rivers history [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings and invited papers for the EWRI Congress and History Symposium, May 17-19, 2009, Kansas City, Missouri / / sponsored by Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers ... [et al.] ; edited by Jerry R. Rogers |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, : EWRI, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
Disciplina | 627 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RogersJerry R |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - History
Hydraulic engineering - History River engineering - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7844-7279-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Hydraulic Engineering Legends Listed on the Eiffel Tower""; ""How to Wrestle a Mighty River: The Missouri River Channel Project""; ""Constructing a Big Dam after the 1951 Missouri River Flood: Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Kansas""; ""Civil Engineering History of Hydraulic Channels and Pipes""; ""The Riddle of the River: How David Thompson Explored and Mapped the Middle and Upper Columbia River""; ""Gateway to Greatness�A Profile of James B. Eads""; ""Major U.S. Dam Failures: Their Cause, Resultant Losses, and Impact on Dam Safety Programs and Engineering Practice""
""Verification of Darcy's Law""""Texas Section ASCE Leaders�A Time of Reflection for Section Anniversary Planning""; ""Hydrologic Design of Bridges and Culverts: A Historical Review""; ""The Waste Water Network: An Underground View of Paris""; ""Burns and McDonnell History�Need for Clean Water Launched Burns and McDonnell""; ""HDR History""; ""Black and Veatch History: Building a World of Difference since 1915""; ""Five-Year History of Water Resources Specialty Certification and Value Slogans""; ""History of the Texas Section�-ASCE"" ""The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, and Technology and ASCE Publications""""Loch Katrine Water Supply to Glasgow, Scotland, 1855�1903""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455311903321 |
Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, : EWRI, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water 4.0 : the past, present, and future of the world's most vital resource / / David Sedlak |
Autore | Sedlak David L. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
Disciplina | 333.91 |
Soggetto topico |
Water - History
Water and civilization - History Water resources development - History Water-supply engineering - History |
ISBN | 0-300-19935-X |
Classificazione | NAT038000ARC010000BUS067000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Water Supply in Rome, the World's First Metropolis -- 2. The Bucket Era -- 3. Europe's Sewage Crisis -- 4. Growing Old Thanks to Water Treatment -- 5. Burning Rivers, Fading Paint, and the Clean Water Movement -- 6. The Chlorine Dilemma -- 7. "Drains to Bay" -- 8. Traces of Trouble: Hormones, Pharmaceuticals, and Toxic Chemicals -- 9. Paying for the Fourth Revolution -- 10. The Toilet- to- Tap Solution -- 11. Turning to the Sea for Drinking Water -- 12. A Different Tomorrow -- 13. Reflections -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791316303321 |
Sedlak David L. | ||
New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water 4.0 : the past, present, and future of the world's most vital resource / / David Sedlak |
Autore | Sedlak David L. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
Disciplina | 333.91 |
Soggetto topico |
Water - History
Water and civilization - History Water resources development - History Water-supply engineering - History |
ISBN | 0-300-19935-X |
Classificazione | NAT038000ARC010000BUS067000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Water Supply in Rome, the World's First Metropolis -- 2. The Bucket Era -- 3. Europe's Sewage Crisis -- 4. Growing Old Thanks to Water Treatment -- 5. Burning Rivers, Fading Paint, and the Clean Water Movement -- 6. The Chlorine Dilemma -- 7. "Drains to Bay" -- 8. Traces of Trouble: Hormones, Pharmaceuticals, and Toxic Chemicals -- 9. Paying for the Fourth Revolution -- 10. The Toilet- to- Tap Solution -- 11. Turning to the Sea for Drinking Water -- 12. A Different Tomorrow -- 13. Reflections -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910806158503321 |
Sedlak David L. | ||
New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water engineering in the ancient world [[electronic resource] ] : archaeological and climate perspectives on societies of ancient South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia / / by Charles R. Ortloff |
Autore | Ortloff Charles R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina | 628.1093 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Paleohydrology
Water resources development - History Water-supply engineering - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-191749-4
1-282-35462-0 9786612354625 0-19-155354-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; 1. Ancient pre-Columbian Peru, Bolivia and Mesoamerica; 2. The Ancient Middle East; 3. Ancient South-East Asia; 4. Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management Strategies of Ancient Societies; 5. Environmental and Climate Perspectives on New World, Old World, and South-East Asian Societies' Achievements in the Hydraulic Sciences; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456577903321 |
Ortloff Charles R | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water engineering in the ancient world [[electronic resource] ] : archaeological and climate perspectives on societies of ancient South America, the Middle East, and South-East Asia / / by Charles R. Ortloff |
Autore | Ortloff Charles R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (433 p.) |
Disciplina | 628.1093 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Paleohydrology
Water resources development - History Water-supply engineering - History |
ISBN |
0-19-191749-4
1-282-35462-0 9786612354625 0-19-155354-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Introduction; 1. Ancient pre-Columbian Peru, Bolivia and Mesoamerica; 2. The Ancient Middle East; 3. Ancient South-East Asia; 4. Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management Strategies of Ancient Societies; 5. Environmental and Climate Perspectives on New World, Old World, and South-East Asian Societies' Achievements in the Hydraulic Sciences; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780928003321 |
Ortloff Charles R | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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