Water and Society
eBook - ePub

Water and Society

Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Water and Society

Changing Perceptions of Societal and Historical Development

About this book

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 remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development."

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781784530792
eBook ISBN
9780857739049
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Author Bibliography
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. 1. The Need for a Paradigm Shift
  7. 2. Water-Society Systems and the Success of the West
  8. 3. Rivers and Empire
  9. 4. Religion and the Enigma of Water
  10. 5. Between the Hydrological and Hydrosocial Cycle: The History of Cities
  11. 6. Water, Sovereignty and the Myth of Westphalia
  12. 7. Water and International Law
  13. 8. Water-Society Relations and the History of the Long Term
  14. 9. Water and Climate Change
  15. 10. A Critique of the Social Science Tradition
  16. Epilogue: ‘An Unstable Foundation of Running Water’
  17. Glossary
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography