Start of the construction of Great Fergana Canal
The main purpose of this canal is to irrigate cotton fields of the Fergana Valley.
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Constuction of the Hoover Dam Completed
The main function of the dam is flood control and the production of energy.
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The Natural and Social Conditions for Soil Nutrients: The Case of a Mediterranean Village in the 1860s
100% Baumwolle: Made in India [100% cotton: made in India]
From its polluted landscapes to its poisoned workers, India is paying a heavy price for Europe’s desire for cheap cotton.
London’s New River
Arcadia, 2012, no. 3
Transforming Rivers into Streets: How the Nineteenth Century Scheme to Improve Shipping on the Vitava, Elbe and Danube Failed
"Population, Land Use and Environmental Impacts in Shucheng County, Anhui Province, China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties"
The authors take Shucheng County as a case study to reconstruct the variations of population and land use in the last 500 years, and to examine their influence on the environmental changes in this region.
"Riding the Tide: Indigenous Knowledge, History and Water in a Changing Australia"
This paper discusses the contested and relational nature of indigeneity and challenges the ahistorical conceptualisation of indigenous knowledge.
"A Native American System of Wetland Agriculture in Different Ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes (15th–18th Centuries)"
In this paper, Caillavet identifies a range of archival sources which provide evidence of the nature, functions, and ecology of agricultural techniques in the northern Ecuadorian highlands.
"Deforestation and Sugar Cane Growing in Eastern Australia, 1860–1995"
Deforestation associated with the cultivation of sugar cane in the coastal lands of Eastern Australia commenced in the 1860s. Beyond the initial large-scale clearing of the native vegetation to create arable land, the growing of sugar cane placed other demands upon the native forests…