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oapen-20.500.12657-588392022-10-15T03:24:36Z Water and Society Tvedt, Terje Geopolitics Environmental policy and protocols Historical geography Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTP Historical geography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations::JPSL Geopolitics bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development." 2022-10-14T14:54:47Z 2022-10-14T14:54:47Z 2021 book ONIX_20221014_9780755606504_170 9780755606504 9780755606498 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58839 eng application/pdf n/a 9780755606498.pdf Bloomsbury Academic I.B. Tauris 10.5040/9780755606511 10.5040/9780755606511 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9780755606504 9780755606498 I.B. Tauris 304 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Despite the central importance that water has held for civilizations both ancient and modern, its social significance has made surprisingly little impact on our contemporary understanding of human history and development. Dominant interpretations of the relationship between society and nature have remained water blind. In Water and Society historian and leading water expert Terje Tvedt argues for a change that acknowledges the significant role played by water in societal development. Reflecting his expertise as a geographer, historian and a political scientist, and drawing on his wide experience of water issues around the world, Terje Tvedt s Water and Society provides a long overdue reappraisal of the relationship between water and society, one that gives water its rightful place as central to any true understanding of human history and development."
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