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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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Agrobiodiversity --- Agrobiodiversity conservation --- Brazil --- population indigène --- biodiversité --- politique publique --- santé environnementale --- climat --- protection de l’écosystème --- gestion de l’environnement; sol; forêt; gestion des ressources; gestion des ressources en eau; système alimentaire; ichtyologie; réseaux hydrologiques; hydrosystème; agrosystème

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Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and open protest. Although bargaining has always been present in Chinese politics, more recently the media, nongovernmental organizations, and other activists-actors hitherto denied a seat at the table-have emerged as serious players in the policy-making process. Drawing from extensive field research in some of the most remote parts of Southwest China, China's Water Warriors contains rich narratives of the widespread opposition to dams in Pubugou and Dujiangyan in Sichuan province and the Nu River Project in Yunnan province. Mertha concludes that the impact and occasional success of such grassroots movements and policy activism signal a marked change in China's domestic politics. He questions democratization as the only, or even the most illuminating, indicator of political liberalization in China, instead offering an informed and hopeful picture of a growing pluralization of the Chinese policy process as exemplified by hydropower politics. For the 2010 paperback edition, Mertha tests his conclusions against events in China since 2008, including the Olympics, the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and the Uighar and Tibetan protests of 2008 and 2009.

POLITICAL SCIENCE --- General --- Water resources development --- Environmentalism --- Economic development --- Environmental policy --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- Political aspects --- Environmental aspects --- China --- Politics and government --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- E-books --- S20/0500 --- S20/1010 --- S20/1150 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Environmental policy, pollution --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Floods and floodcontrol --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Irrigation and water conservation: after 1949 --- Greenwashing --- Gestion des ressources en eau --- Écologisme --- Développement économique --- Politique de l'environnement --- Chine --- Aspect politique --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Politique et gouvernement --- 1976-....

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Water-power --- Water rights --- Industries --- Energie hydraulique --- Droits sur les eaux --- Énergie hydraulique --- Industrie --- Cours d'eau --- Droits de captation d'eau --- Droits de prise d'eau --- Propriété des eaux --- Droits des riverains --- Dérivation (travaux publics) --- Irrigation --- Eau --- Aménagement des cours d'eau --- Aménagement hydraulique --- Électricité hydraulique --- Énergie hydro-électrique --- Houille blanche --- Hydro-électricité --- Hydroélectricité --- Potentiel hydro-électrique --- Ressources hydrauliques --- Ressources hydro-électriques --- Centrales hydroélectriques --- Moulins à eau --- Coupage au jet --- Coupage au jet d'eau --- Énergie des vagues --- Énergie marémotrice --- Génie hydraulique --- Machines hydrauliques --- Roues hydrauliques --- Énergies décarbonées --- Énergie mécanique --- Énergies renouvelables --- Gestion des ressources en eau --- Ressources énergétiques --- Ressources naturelles --- Industrial production --- Industry --- Economics --- Rights, Water --- Water --- Riparian rights --- Water trusts --- Hydraulic power plants --- Hydroelectric power --- Hydroelectricity --- Hydropower --- Waterpower --- Natural resources --- Power resources --- Renewable energy sources --- Water resources development --- Stream measurements --- Economic aspects --- History. --- Power supply --- Aspect économique --- Histoire. --- Droit --- Jaugeage --- Law and legislation --- Etats Unis --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- United States --- United States of America --- US --- USA --- États-Unis --- États du Sun Belt (États-Unis) --- États-Unis (est) --- États-Unis (ouest) --- Middle West (États-Unis) --- Amérique du Nord --- Civilisation --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- Émigration et immigration --- Étude et enseignement --- Forces armées --- Histoire --- Opinion publique étrangère --- Politique et gouvernement --- Recensement --- Relations extérieures --- Relations interethniques --- Territoires et possessions --- Divisions politiques et administratives --- Frontières --- Industries, Primitive