The Cultures of Water Management

This book assesses the importance of the cultural dimensions of water management, which differ from one region of the world to another, in climates ranging from humid Southeast Asia to arid parts of the Middle East and Africa.

List of contents

Part I       Introduction
1.      Cultures of Water Management
Hiroshi Nawata and Makoto Taniguchi
 
Part II     Civilization, Religion, and Urbanization in Water Management
2.    The Traditional Concept of Water in Islamic Egypt
Tsugitaka Sato
3.    Aspects of Policy and Decision Making Regarding Nile Flood Control in 14^th-Century Mamluk Egypt
Takenori Yoshimura
4.    Water Culture with Canals and Groundwater in Thailand
Makoto Taniguchi
5.    Water Culture and its Role in Water Management: A Case Study of the Middle Reach of the Red River
Xiao Yun Zheng
 
Part III    Qanats: Comparisons of a Traditional Water Management System
6.    Comparative Study of Qanats in the Islamic World
Iwao Kobori
7.    Traditional Water Management Systems in Iran: Focus on Qanats (or Karezes)
Ali Asghar Semsar Yazdi
8.    The role of Water Management in the Political History of Iran
Zohre Cheraghi
 
Part IV    Sustainability and Diversity of Oasis Agriculture
9.    The "Oasis Concept": Part of a Sustainability Paradigm for Applying Traditional Knowledge to Current Environmental Issues
Pietro Laureano
10.  Agrobiodiversity in Date Palm Oases: Case Study of In Belbel and Matriouen in Algerian Sahara
Abderrahmane Benkhalifa
11.  Short-Term Changes in a Saharan Oasis: Water Supply, Farm Expansion, and the Habitation Movement
Shun Ishiyama
 
Part V     Cultures of Development Projects: Drinking Water, Food Security, and Monitoring
12.  Availability of Drinking Water in the Sahel Region
Fumiko Hakoyama
13.  Water and Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula: Struggling for More Action
Ahmed T. Moustafa, Abdul Wahid Jasra, and Abdullah Al Shankiti
14.  Remote Sensing Methods for Surface Run-Off, Soil Moisture and Alien Invasive Species Control in African Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
Buho Hoshino, Hiroshi Nawata, Abdelaziz Karamalla Gaiballa, Kiyotsugu Yoda, and Hiroshi Yasuda
 
Part VI    Conflict Resolution Through Water Management
15.  The Iraqi Mesopotamian Marshlands: Environmental Crisis Mirrors the Cumulative Impact within the Tigris and Euphrates Basin
Ryuichi Fukuhara
16.  Water Conflict and Negotiations in the Post-Oslo Period
Aiko Nishikida
17.  A New Horizon for Peace in the Middle East Involving Water and Energy
Masahiro Murakami
 
Part VII  Conclusion
18.  Water as the Key to the Earth's Future: "To be Poor without Resentment is Difficult. To be Rich without Arrogance is Easy."
Hiroshi Nawata
 Part I       Introduction
1.      Cultures of Water Management
Hiroshi Nawata and Makoto Taniguchi
 
Part II     Civilization, Religion, and Urbanization in Water Management
2.    The Traditional Concept of Water in Islamic Egypt
Tsugitaka Sato
3.    Aspects of Policy and Decision Making Regarding Nile Flood Control in 14^th-Century Mamluk Egypt
Takenori Yoshimura
4.  &

Summary

Includes information on traditional and scientific knowledge of water management as dimensions of culture in both arid and humid areas
Provides recommendations on how traditional adaptations can be introduced into modern water management systems

Product details

• Assisted by: Hirosh Nawata (Editor), Hiroshi Nawata (Editor), Taniguchi (Editor), Taniguchi (Editor), Makoto Taniguchi (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2028
• EAN: 9784431542124
• ISBN: 978-4-431-54212-4
• No. of pages: 235
• Illustrations: XV, 235 p.
• Series: Global Environmental Studies; Global Environmental Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; B, Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Geography, Humangeographie, Bauingenieur-, Vermessungs- und Bauwesen, Environment, Water, Civil Engineering, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Earth Sciences, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Environmental management,, Hydrogeology, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Geography, general, Human Geography