Water communities

Water is the key to human civilization. Most of the ancient civilization had its roots to river basins, where people-water interaction was the key aspect. Due to innovations of knowledge and technology and modernization of lifestyles, the human-water direct contact has become less significant. Peopl...

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Other Authors: Shaw, Rajib., Thaitakoo, Danai.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2010.
Series: Community, environment and disaster risk management ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Nature > Ecology.
Nature > Ecosystems & Habitats > Rivers.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
Drought & water supply.
Water and civilization.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781849506991 (electronic bk.) :
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 210 p.) : ill.

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245 0 0 |a Water communities  |h [electronic resource] /  |c edited by Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo. 
260 |a Bingley, U.K. :  |b Emerald,  |c 2010. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xx, 210 p.) :  |b ill. 
490 1 |a Community, environment and disaster risk management,  |x 2040-7262 ;  |v v. 2 
505 0 |a ch. 1. Water communities : introduction and overview / Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo -- ch. 2. Community-based water management practices in Japan / Yukiko Takeuchi, Noralene Uy, Rajib Shaw -- ch. 3. Bangkok liquid perception : waterscape urbanism in the Chao Phraya river delta and implications to climate change adaptation / Danai Thaitakoo, Brian McGrath -- ch. 4. Tripod scheme for flood disaster prevention and technical transfer / Hirotada Matsuki -- ch. 5. Amplifying the community voices for greater access to drinking water in Bangladesh / Dwijen L Mallick -- ch. 6. Building civil organization networks in Shingashi river basin toward sustainable water environment / Nozomi Hishida, Ryo Kamada -- ch. 7. Progress of research on cascade irrigation systems in the dry zones of Sri Lanka / K.W.G. Rekha Nianthi, M.A.S. Jayakumara -- ch. 8. Pani panchayat : examples of water governance and community participation in India / Chandra Bhakuni -- ch. 9. Urbanization does not always make progress : experiences of Horikawa River in Nagoya / Eizo Hideshima -- ch. 10. Water management systems of China : water cellar for community / Weihua Fang, Xingchun Zhong -- ch. 11. From the water community to policy perspectives of sustainable eco-development in Kampong Bahru, Malaysia / Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, Miwa Imura, Hatsumi Umakoshi, Shimpei Iwasaki, Shamsuri Suradi -- ch. 12. Indigenous and scientific water management : fusing research on urban headwater transformations in Northern Thailand and metropolitan Baltimore / Brian McGrath, Danai Thaitakoo -- ch. 13. The water community case of Chou-Shui river in Taiwan / Jet-Chan Wen ... [et al.] -- ch. 14. Essentials of water communities and its future perspective / Danai Thaitakoo, Rajib Shaw. 
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588 0 |a Print version record 
650 7 |a Nature  |x Ecology.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Nature  |x Ecosystems & Habitats  |x Rivers.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Environmentalist thought & ideology.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a Drought & water supply.  |2 bicssc 
650 0 |a Water and civilization. 
655 7 |a elektronické knihy  |7 fd186907  |2 czenas 
655 9 |a electronic books  |2 eczenas 
700 1 |a Shaw, Rajib. 
700 1 |a Thaitakoo, Danai. 
776 1 |z 9781849506984 
830 0 |a Community, environment and disaster risk management ;  |v v. 2. 
856 4 0 |u https://proxy.k.utb.cz/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)2  |y Full text 

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