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Advances in water engineering : proceedings of the International Symposium "Advances in Water Engineering" held at the University of Birmingham, 15-19 July 1985
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ISBN: 0853343748 Year: 1985 Publisher: London ; New York : Elsevier Applied Science Publishers ,

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La protection des eaux douces transfrontières contre la pollution : dimensions normatives et institutionnelles
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ISBN: 9783725586578 3725586578 Year: 2017 Publisher: Genève : Schulthess,

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Le régime juridique applicable à la lutte contre la pollution des eaux douces transfrontières a connu des métamorphoses profondes au fil des années. Cet ouvrage fourni une interprétation des règles qui régissent la protection de l'eau contre la pollution au moyen d'une approche systémique du régime applicable qui tienne compte de sa densification sous l'effet de l'irruption des considérations environnementales. Il défend comme finalité du régime de protection des eaux douces transfrontières celle de l'anticipation du dommage de pollution. Cette anticipation ressort en premier lieu du développement du régime normatif. Ce développement se manifeste à travers l'affinement qualitatif des mesures de lutte contre la pollution, l'expansion du champ opératoire du régime encadrant désormais aussi bien le comportement de l'Etat dans son ordre interne que son comportement dans l'ordre international dans la conduite de ses activités à risque, et enfin l'expansion du régime aux acteurs non étatiques à travers la reconnaissance des droits et obligations d'ordre procédural aux individus et acteurs privés. En second lieu, l'anticipation du dommage se manifeste à travers le développement du régime institutionnel. Le renforcement accru du rôle des institutions de bassin est mis en lumière. Sous l'effet de la nécessité de développer davantage les normes de comportement, les institutions de bassin se sont vues investies de compétences et de pouvoirs d'action variés, aussi bien dans l'élaboration des normes que dans la surveillance de leur mise en oeuvre.


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Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present
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ISBN: 1911576690 1911576712 1911576720 1911576704 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : UCLPress,

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Today our societies face great challenges with water, in terms of both quantity and quality, but many of these challenges have already existed in the past. Focusing on Asia, Water Societies and Technologies from the Past and Present seeks to highlight the issues that emerge or re-emerge across different societies and periods, and asks what they can tell us about water sustainability. Incorporating cutting-edge research and pioneering field surveys on past and present water management practices, the interdisciplinary contributors together identify how societies managed water resource challenges and utilised water in ways that allowed them to evolve, persist, or drastically alter their environment. The case studies, from different periods, ancient and modern, and from different regions, including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Southwest United States, the Indus Basin, the Yangtze River, the Mesopotamian floodplain, the early Islamic city of Sultan Kala in Turkmenistan, and ancient Korea, offer crucial empirical data to readers interested in comparing the dynamics of water management practices across time and space, and to those who wish to understand water-related issues through conceptual and quantitative models of water use. The case studies also challenge classical theories on water management and social evolution, examine and establish the deep historical roots and ecological foundations of water sustainability issues, and contribute new grounds for innovations in sustainable urban planning and ecological resilience.


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Trajectoires de recherches en Amazonie brésilienne : L'IRD et ses partenaires
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ISBN: 2709929643 9782709929646 9782709929622 Year: 2022 Publisher: Marseille, France: IRD Éditions,

Le régime administratif de l'eau du Nil dans l'Egypte grecque, romaine et byzantine
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ISBN: 9004096876 9789004096875 Year: 1993 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,


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L’eau, miroir d’une société : Irrigation paysanne au Népal central
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ISBN: 2271062047 2271128382 9782271062048 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris : CNRS Éditions,

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Qu’une population rizicole maîtrise l’irrigation ne surprendra personne. En revanche, qu’elle partage minutieusement cette ressource, pourtant abondante, est beaucoup plus étonnant. Comment expliquer ce paradoxe et comprendre le système sophistiqué de gestion de l’eau à Aslewacaur, village du Népal central ? Grâce à une approche historique, l’auteur replace les choix techniques d’irrigation dans leur contexte socio-économique, politique et environnemental. Mais surtout, elle repère dans l’organisation du système d’irrigation la prédominance d’une logique de parenté qui, de surcroît, s’appuie sur l’inscription territoriale des caractéristiques sociales : l’accès à l’eau et sa gestion tout entière se calquent ainsi sur la division lignagère et le partage du patrimoine foncier du clan Brahmane qui domine le village. On découvre alors qu’à travers les tours d’eau que mesure l’horloge hydraulique, c’est la triade fondamentale eau – terre – société qui s’organise dans une relation en miroir entre société et espace hydraulique. En privilégiant l’étude de la pensée paysanne et de la dimension sociale des tech­niques, l’ouvrage fournit un modèle général d’approche des rapports entre société et agriculture. Il s’adresse de ce fait aux agronomes, ethnologues, géographes, sociologues ou étudiants concernés par les relations entre techniques de produc­tion et structures sociales en milieu rural.


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Managing performance in Ethiopian municipalities : a benchlearning approach of urban water services in Oromia National Regional State
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ISBN: 9789075376593 9075376596 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leuven : KU Leuven, Public Governance Institute,

Globalization of water : sharing the planet's freshwater ressources
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ISBN: 9781405163354 1405163356 Year: 2008 Publisher: Malden : Blackwell Publishing,

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Globalization of Water is a first-of-its-kind review of the critical relationship between globalization and sustainable water management. It explores the impact of international trade on local water depletion and pollution and identifies & water dependent& nations. Examines the critical link between water management and international trade, considering how local water depletion and pollution are often closely tied to the structure of the global economy Offers a consumer-based indicator of each nation's water use: the water footprint Questions whether trade can enhance global water use efficiency, or whether it simply shifts the environmental burden to a distant location Highlights the hidden link between national consumption and the use of water resources across the globe, identifying the threats facing & water dependent' countries worldwide Provides a state-of-the-art review and in-depth data source for a new field of knowledge


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Water for the City, Fountains for the People : Monumental Fountains in the Roman East : An archaeological study of water management
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ISSN: 17803195 ISBN: 9782503534497 250353449X Year: 2012 Volume: 9 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Archaeological research has brought to light dozens of ancient monumental fountains. For any well-to-do urban center, they were a necessary utilitarian and aesthetic amenity. In Roman times, public fountains reached a degree of architectural opulence and technical complexity never seen before. Through the statues and inscriptions displayed on their façades, they acted as powerful bearers of individual and collective identities. In traditional scholarly research, this representative dimension of monumental fountains is generally strongly emphasized, to the detriment of their essential role in the provision of water to urban centers. The aim of this monograph is to explore the rich utilitarian dimension of monumental fountains in the Roman East, from their relationship to the aqueduct to the various technical details involving the distribution, display, use and drainage of water. Issues such as user-friendliness, hygiene and the preservation of water under harder climatic conditions will be examined as well, following a diachronic perspective that also includes the later evolution of public fountains in Late Antiquity. Exploring the utilitarian dimension of monumental fountains reestablishes the balance with their representative function: this is the most accurate way of explaining their stunning success in the cities of the Mediterranean

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