Fluid Frontiers

Author : Thomas Hartmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317434722
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Land and Water Governance in Urban Areas written by Thomas Hartmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living. Sustainable governance of land and water is one of the major challenges of our times. Managing retention areas for floods and droughts, designing resilient urban waterfronts, implementing floating homes, or managing wastewater in shrinking cities are just a few examples where spatial planning steps into the governance arena of water management and vice versa. However, water management and spatial planning pursue different modes of governance, and therefore the frontiers between the two disciplines require developing approaches for setting up governance schemes for sustainable cities of the future. What are the particularities of the governance of land and water? What is the role of regional and local spatial planning? What institutional barriers may arise? This book focuses on questions such as these, and covers groundwater governance, water supply and wastewater treatment, urban riverscapes, urban flooding, flood risk management, and concepts of resilience. The project resulted from a Summer School by the German Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL) organized by the editors at Utrecht University in 2013. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.

Author : John Gillis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874267867
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fluid Frontiers written by John Gillis and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has too often been described as the 'eternal sea' is shown to be remarkably dynamic. Ranging widely from Australia to the Arctic, from ocean depths to high islands, a new generation of humanists and scientists trespass the boundaries of their own fields of inquiry to tie together human and natural histories. They reflect contemporary concerns with declining fisheries, damaged estuaries, and vanishing coastal communities. Here the history of oceanic sciences meets that of literary and artistic imagination, offering vivid insights into the meanings as well as the materiality of waves and swamps, coasts and coral reefs. In their introduction, John Gillis and Franziska Torma suggest the directions in which the fluid frontiers of marine environmental history are moving.

Author : Alconini, Sonia
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813052556
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Inka Frontiers written by Alconini, Sonia and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial frontiers are a fascinating stage for studying the interactions of people, institutions, and their environments. In one of the first books to explore the Inka frontier through archaeology, Sonia Alconini examines part of present-day Bolivia that was once a territory at the edge of the Inka empire. Along this frontier, one of the New World’s most powerful polities came into repeated conflict with tropical lowland groups that it could never subject to its rule. Using extensive field research, Alconini explores the multifaceted socioeconomic processes that transpired in the frontier region. Her unprecedented study shows how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land and peoples in a territory located hundreds of miles away from the capital city of Cusco, and how people on the frontier navigated the cultural and environmental divide that separated the Andes and the Amazon.

Author : Lynette Russell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123800
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial frontiers written by Lynette Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural encounters produce boundaries and frontiers. This book explores the formation, structure, and maintenance of boundaries and frontiers in settler colonies. The southern nations of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have a common military heritage as all three united to fight for the British Empire during the Boer and First World Wars. The book focuses on the southern latitudes and especially Australia and Australian historiography. Looking at cross-cultural interactions in the settler colonies, the book illuminates the formation of new boundaries and the interaction between settler societies and indigenous groups. It contends that the frontier zone is a hybrid space, a place where both indigene and invader come together on land that each one believes to be their own. The best way to approach the northern Cape frontier zone is via an understanding of the significance of the frontier in South African history. The book explores some ways in which discourses of a natural, prehistoric Aboriginality inform colonial representations of the Australian landscape and its inhabitants, both indigenous and immigrant. The missions of the London Missionary Society (LMS) in Polynesia and Australia are examined to explore the ways in which frontiers between British and antipodean cultures were negotiated in colonial textuality. The role of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand society is possibly the most important and controversial issue facing modern New Zealanders. The book also presents valuable insights into sexual politics, Aboriginal sovereignty, economics of Torres Strait maritime, and nomadism.

Author : Greg de Cuir (Jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788412505702
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fluid Frontiers written by Greg de Cuir (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900420119X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers in the Roman World written by Impact of Empire (Organization). Workshop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed and influenced (perceptions of) frontiers.

Author : Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487534094
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers written by Thomas M. Wilson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International borders are among the most significant political inventions of modern times. The borders between national states are not just important to the peoples and governments who face each other across the borderline – any international border can become a regional hotspot of global concern. But aside from the significant role borders play in national and international affairs, borders are also places and spaces where people live, work, raise families, and build businesses. Written for students across disciplines, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers introduces readers to the study of borders and border cultures. Thomas M. Wilson examines both historical foundations and current developments in the field, with an emphasis on anthropological contributions. Ultimately, Borders, Boundaries, Frontiers encourages students to explore the role anthropology plays in the understanding of contemporary borders.

Author : Dimitar Bechev
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714678
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediterranean Frontiers written by Dimitar Bechev and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identity of any nation-state is inextricably linked with its borders and frontiers. Borders connect nations and sustain notions of social cohesion. Yet they are also the sites of division, fragmentation and political conflict. This ambitious study encompasses North Africa, the Middle East, and South and South East Europe to examine the emergence of state borders and polarised identities in the Mediterranean. The authors look at the impact of political boundaries upon the region, along with pressures from European and economic integration, the resurgence of nationalism, and refugee and security concerns. The authors explore the politics of memory, and ask whether echoes from the imperial past - Ottoman and colonial - could provide the basis for conflict resolution, region-building and economic integration.

Author : Rajeshwari Dutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108493424
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire on Edge written by Rajeshwari Dutt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Yuan Shen
Publisher : Pergamon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Fluid Mechanics written by Yuan Shen and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1988 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.