Rivers of the Anthropocene

Rivers of the Anthropocene

"This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Meybeck, Michel (Editor ), Meybeck, M. (Michel), editor (editor), Syvitski, James P. M., editor, Berry, Helen, 1969- editor, Scarpino, Philip V., editor, Kelly, Jason M., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2018].
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Human ecology.
Rivers > Environmental aspects.
agency.
anthropocene.
blue nile basin.
case study.
chicago river.
city state.
drainage.
ecological.
ecology.
ecosystem.
engineering.
ethics.
ethnography.
flooding.
great flood.
immigration.
landscape.
natural history.
natural world.
nile river.
public ecology.
rivers.
riverscape.
scholars.
seine river.
society.
water system.
waterways.
western europe.
world history.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422300806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly
  • The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey
  • Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx
  • Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond
  • Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms
  • An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith
  • A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel
  • Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino
  • The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry
  • Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane
  • Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter
  • What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin.

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