Rivers and Society

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Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods

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Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

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Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, has become acute during the last hundred years or so. This book brings together empirical research and theoretical perspectives on the changing conditions of a range of river basin environments in the contemporary world, including the history and culture of local societies living in these river basins. It provides theoretical insights on the patterns and nature of the interaction between rivers and their use by human communities. The chapters are written from a variety of positions, including environmental science, hydrology, human ecology, urban studies, water management, historical geography, cultural anthropology and tourism studies. The case studies span different geographical regions, providing valuable insight on the multifaceted interactions between rivers and our societies, and on the changing riverscapes in different parts of the world. Specific detailed examples are included from Australia, Brazil, France, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author Biography:

Malcolm Cooper PhD is Emeritus Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. Abhik Chakraborty PhD is Lecturer in the Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan. Shamik Chakraborty PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, Japan.

Release date Australia

December 19th, 2017

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributors

Edited by Abhik Chakraborty
Edited by Malcolm Cooper
Edited by Shamik Chakraborty

Illustrations

5 Tables, black and white; 7 Line drawings, black and white; 39 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

258

Series

Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

ISBN-13

9781138930902

Product ID

24081364

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