Living with environmental change : waterworlds /
Saved in:
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. |
|---|---|
| Description: | xvi, 301 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10042570 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction Portraits
- Part 1. Water
- Introduction
- 1. Narwhals and Navigators on the Arctic Sea
- 2. Ephemeral Tsunamis, Emotional Waves and Enduring Islands
- 3. Sea Water to the Mountain Top: The Hydrological Cycle in Chivay, Peru
- 4. Bursting Bodies of Water: Glacial Retreat and Lake Expansion in the Andes
- 5. Rain and Flows of Joy and Concerns
- 6. The Elusiveness and Pleasure of Rain in the Sahel
- 7. Dams: Management versus Luck
- 8. Water as Power and Destroyer
- 9. New Opportunities turning into Disaster
- 10. Coastal Gardens and their Magic
- 11. The Sprawled Way of Detergents
- 12. Droughts: Complex Revelatory Phenomena
- 13. Water Quantity vs. Water Quality
- 14. Fixed & Fluid Waters: The Mirror Images of the Arctic and the Pacific
- Part 2. Landscape
- Introduction
- 15. Hualca Hualca: Mountain Lord and Life Source
- 16. Knowing Landscapes of Water in Kiribati
- 17. Borders at Sea
- 18. Making Urban Landscapes - People, Water, Materials
- 19. Dreams, Water and the Remodelling of Place
- 20. Opportunistic Strategies: Changeable Usages of the Nigerian Landscape
- 21. Landscapes of Droughts and Floods on the Desert Margins
- 22. A A Landscape of Ice
- 23. Walking Along: Reading the Landscape Along a Channel
- 24. 'Old' Water, Gardens and Prophetic Powers in the Sahel
- 25. Can You See CLimate Change in a Changing Environment?
- 25. Mental Topographies
- 26. Ephemeral Topographie and Fluid Topologies
- 27. Icons of Climate Change. Mirroring the Sahel and the Andes
- Part 3. Technology
- Introduction
- 28. Sea Level and Coastal Protection
- 29. Urbanising Water in a Context of Scarcity: The Case of Nouakchott
- 30. A Job-Machine Powered by Water
- 31. Life in the Shadow of a Water Tower
- 32. Waste & Water - Connected and Mixed
- 32. Invested Watering Strategies in Senegal
- 33. Cobs as Technological Solutions
- 34. The Imagined Water Pump
- 35. Unpredictable Side Effects of New Technologies
- 36. Scalable and Fluid Sprinklers
- 37. A Life Jacket Story
- 38. Unpacking the Dog Sledge
- 39. Water Technologies. Mirroring Great Expectations in Greenland and Ghana
- Part 4. Time
- Introduction
- 40. Glacial Time
- 41. The Rhythms of Life: Seasons and Timings in Peru
- 42. Flexible Trajectories: Nomadic Pastoral Mobility Patterns
- 43. Still Life on the Shore
- 44. Appraising Change: A Question of Baseline
- 45. Litres per Second: Measuring the Water Flow
- 46. New Scenarios, and Unstable Temporalities
- 47. Facing Reality - Managing/Imagining the TIme Left on an Atoll
- 48. Anticipating Futures and the Rhythms of Water
- 49. Slow versus Fast Changes in Sahelian Land Use Systems
- 50. Three Calendars and the Test of Time in Northern Sahel
- 50. "Packages" with Disparate Time Horizons
- 51. Urban Talks of Climate and Weather
- 52. Times of Climate Change in Religion and Ethics. Mirroring the Andes and the Pacific Artefacts of Climate
- 53. A Book as a Tool for Time Imaginations
- 54. The Mobile Phone
- 55. A Shattered Tube
- 56. Skeletal Land
