This paper “Water and the City” by Tapio S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, and J. Tempelhoff introduces the topics of growth and development of urban spaces and their comprehensive water infrastructure.
Environment and History (journal)
"Water and the City"
"Botanical Transculturation: Japanese and British Knowledge and Understanding of Aucuba japonica and Larix leptolepis 1700-1920"
This article aims to demonstrate the complexity of the interchange of Japanese and European knowledge of natural history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
"Canals Spawn Dams? Exploring the Filiation of Hydraulic Infrastructure"
This article studies the aetiology underlying water management by exploring the social hermeneutics that determined its construction. It details how science, technology and political relations construct each other mutually, both producing and harnessing the scientific discourse on the environment.
"Water, Food and the Economy"
This article presents and discusses the papers presented at the 5th IWHA Conference under the theme ‘Water, Food and the Economy’.
"Motives for Introducing Species: Palestine's Carp as a Case Study"
This article examines the contribution of socio-cultural and economic motives to the process of introductions and invasions of species, in this case, the introduction of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to Palestine’s freshwaters in the 1930s, while suggesting a third motive, an ideological one.
"Sanitation, Water and Health"
This article discusses how the understanding of the key concepts and the links between health, water, and sanitation has changed over time.
"Water, Policy and Governance"
The focus of this paper is on identifying some of the key elements of water policy and governance presented at the 5th IWHA Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water.’ The paper also explores the challenges and opportunities facing the international community for living up to the principles of democratic water governance in a context of increasing global uncertainty.
"Editorial Note: 'Pasts and Futures of Water'"
This editorial note introduces the four major conference themes of the 5th International Water History Association (IWHA) Conference ‘Pasts and Futures of Water’ in June 2007: (i) water, health and sanitation; (ii) water, food and economy; (iii) water and the city; and (iv) water governance and policy.
"The Origins of the Russian Chernozem Soil (Black Earth): Franz Joseph Ruprecht’s 'Geo-Botanical Researches into the Chernozem' of 1866"
This article analyses the contribution of the Austrian-born Russian scientist, Franz Joseph Ruprecht (1814–70) to the development of geobotany in general and to the controversial issue of the origins of the very fertile chernozem (Black Earth) of the steppe region of the Russian Empire.
"Modernisation with Local Characteristics: Development Efforts and the Environment on the Zoige Grass and Wetlands, 1949-2005"
This study is an overview of the state-led development projects and local efforts to ‘improve’ local conditions on the Zoige grass and wetlands on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau since 1949 and their impact on the regional ecological and social environment. It focuses on historical state-led development projects, as well as more recent efforts to raise environmental awareness of the importance of Chinese wetlands.