Social and Technological Management in Dry Lands - Past and Present, Indigenous and Imposed

This volume presents studies of societies ranging from ancient Peru to contemporary Israel that are concerned with human activity in arid environments. It discusses the rise and fall of water management system and reviews its broader physical, social, and technological setting.

List of contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- An Empirical Approach to Prehistoric Agrarian Collapse: The Case of the Moche Valley, Peru -- Farmers and Technical Experts: Information Flow in Irrigated Agriculture -- Human Use of the Pre-Saharan Ecosystem and Its Impact on Desertization -- Utilization of Surface Water by Northern Arabian Bedouins -- Agroecosystem Diversity: A Model from the Sonoran Desert -- A Rational–Choice Model of Agricultural Resource Utilization and Conservation -- Drought versus Desertification: The Case of the Sahel -- Some Observations on Adaptation to Semi-arid Environments

About the author

Nancie L. Gonzalez,

Summary

This volume presents studies of societies ranging from ancient Peru to contemporary Israel that are concerned with human activity in arid environments. It discusses the rise and fall of water management system and reviews its broader physical, social, and technological setting.

Product details

• Authors: Nancie L. Gonzalez
• Assisted by: Nancie L. Gonzalez (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780367303259
• ISBN: 978-0-367-30325-9
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Politics & government, Politics and government