Water and society : changing perceptions of societal and historical development /
Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have r...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2016.
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| Series: | International library of human geography ;
30. |
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Table of Contents:
- The need for a paradigm shift
- Water-Society systems and the success of the West
- Rivers and empire
- Religion and the enigma of water
- Between the hydrological and hydrosocial cycle; the history of cities
- Water, sovereignty and the myth of Westphalia
- Water and international law
- Water-Society relations and the history of the long term
- Water and climate change
- A critique of the social science tradition
- An unstable foundation of running water.