Wasser: Alltagsbedarf, Ingenieurskunst und Repräsentation zwischen Antike und Neuzeit
Wasser correlates the control of water supply with power in a comparative collection of articles on water in ancient, early modern, and modern states.
Wasser correlates the control of water supply with power in a comparative collection of articles on water in ancient, early modern, and modern states.
In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time.
Little-known information is presented on the efforts to set up eider farms in the USSR between 1930 and 1960.
A visual poem (in English and Hawaiian) that pays tribute to Maunakea, a mountain on the island of Hawai`i.
Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.
The First International Conference on Iceberg Utilization, held at Iowa State University in October 1977, contributed to the formation of nascent hydrologics in the late 1970s.
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies discuss the environmental consequences of water-resource infrastructures created during the gold rush in Victoria.
By detailing the waste we have discarded, John Scanlan argues that we can learn new things about the building blocks of our culture; he throws new light on the modern condition by examining not what we have kept, but what we have thrown away.
Once a denuded gold mining landscape, now a National Heritage Park, this place is site of emerging environmental histories of post-colonizing, post-mining lands.